Firms ordered to act on diversity or face a crackdown by regulators

Top UK firms ordered to act on diversity or face a crackdown by regulators By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 17 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 17 March 2021 FCA boss Nikhil Rathi (pictured) said firms with ‘premium’ listings in London must act to improve boardroom diversty Britain’s leading companies … Read more

Woman who knocked film producer off his bike when she opened Uber door ordered to pay £8,000

A businesswoman who knocked a film producer off his bike when she opened the door of an Uber has been ordered to pay him £8,000 compensation along with the driver.    Sandy Lieberson was thrown to the ground in north London in May 2016 when Louisa Pointon opened her cab door into his path – giving … Read more

Woman who knocked film producer off his bike when she opened Uber door ordered to pay £8,000

A businesswoman who knocked a film producer off his bike when she opened the door of an Uber has been ordered to pay him £8,000 compensation along with the driver.    Sandy Lieberson was thrown to the ground in north London in May 2016 when Louisa Pointon opened her cab door into his path – giving … Read more

Coronavirus schools UK: Up to 250,000 pupils could be wrongly ordered to self-isolate amid covid

Up to 250,000 school pupils could be wrongly ordered to self-isolate after receiving ‘false positive’ Covid test, union warns Government insisted its school testing regime was 99.9 per cent reliable Lateral flow tests are being used three times on every secondary school pupil With 3.4million schoolchildren there could be 6,000 false positives a week  By … Read more

Wyelands Bank ordered by Bank of England to pay back all 4,000 savers

Around 4,000 savers will have £210million in cash returned to them after Wyelands Bank was ordered, in an unprecedented move by the Bank of England, to repay all of its depositors in full. Holders of its 35 and 95-day notice accounts, which have paid zero interest after a succession of cuts, will be paid until … Read more

Hassidic Jewish family of 22 says they were ‘singled out’ by airline who ordered them off plane

Frontier Airlines removed passengers from a flight that was about to depart Miami and take off for New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night after it claimed that members of a Hassidic Jewish family refused to wear masks. But family members and witnesses claim that the airline staff overreacted to a 15-month-old infant whose face … Read more

Chinese husband is ordered to pay his ex-wife £5,500 for housework during five-year marriage

Chinese husband is ordered to pay his ex-wife £5,500 for housework during five-year marriage Ex-wife said she looked after and cared for child while husband did nothing Court ruled she will receive £5,500, sole custody of child and £220 per month  She filed for compensation at court in Beijing under country’s new civil laws  By … Read more

Banks could be ordered to refund ALL fraud victims

Banks could be ordered to refund ALL fraud victims, watchdog says Payments watchdog said banks could be forced to reimburse all scam victims   Despite code of conduct in 2019, less than half of money stolen being refunded Rules might include forcing banks to commit to another new code of conduct By Amelia Murray Money Mail … Read more

Barefoot HS2 protestor who calls himself ‘Lazer’ is ordered to keep away from tunnels by court 

An anti-HS2 campaigner who handed himself to police after spending 11 days in tunnels beneath Euston Station has been ordered to stay away from all HS2 sites. Lachlan Sandford, 20, known as Lazer, was taken into police custody after he voluntarily left the network of tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens in central London on Saturday. … Read more