Royal Mail and unions reach an agreement to end two-year dispute over pay and conditions By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:09 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 22:26 GMT, 22 December 2020 Royal Mail has struck a ‘landmark’ deal with unions that ends a two-year dispute over pay and conditions. The agreement … Read more
The surge in house prices saw the average property in Britain reach a record high of £245,000 in October, as buyers race to complete transactions ahead of the stamp duty holiday on 31 March 2021. Property prices rose by 5.4 per cent, or £19,000, in the year to October, up from a 4.3 per cent … Read more
Boris Johnson has ‘let down’ pregnant women as rapid Covid tests fail to reach wards despite him promising they would be prioritised PM promised maternity wards would be prioritised for rapid tests in October This way partners with negative tests would get access into wards and scans NHS Trusts have not rolled out the tests and … Read more
Premier League, EFL and the FA reach agreement on post-Brexit transfers – with new signings from the European Union required to meet threshold for work permit via points-based system The FA, Premier League and EFL have agreed a plan for players post-Brexit The three bodies have outlined requirements for a player to be eligible to … Read more
Britain’s ‘world-leading’ Test and Trace system has failed to reach more than 100,000 people exposed to coronavirus in England’s hotspots since the second wave began, official figures show. The privately-run arm of the £22billion programme has reached just 58 per cent of the close contacts of people who tested positive for the virus in the … Read more
UK debt could reach 105% of GDP due to the Government’s Covid spending as the economy suffers its worst contraction in 300 years Top Treasury mandarin Sir Tom Scholar faced the Public Accounts Committee Said Government would press on with providing short-term support to economy Warned UK economy likely to see worst annual contraction for … Read more
Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to ‘redouble efforts’ to reach a trade deal and signed off on talks continuing next week. The Prime Minister told his Brussels counterpart that there remained ‘significant differences’ in the UK-EU negotiations. He said the two sides differ on their positions over fishing … Read more
Humans reach their ‘cognitive peak’ where their brain is its most powerful at the age of 35 – but the mind starts declining a decade later, study finds Researchers analyzed more than 24,000 professional chess games since 1890 This involved studying 1.6 million moves and comparing them to ‘ideal moves’ They found performance had improved … Read more
Some 211,381 job losses have been announced by major British employers since the start of the coronavirus lockdown in March as follows: October 17 – Edinburgh Woollen Mill – 600 October 16 – Pret A Manger – 400 October 14 – Gourmet Burger Kitchen – 362 October 7 – Greene King – 800 October 6 – … Read more
The Government’s Test and Trace system has failed to reach nearly a quarter of a million close contacts of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, new analysis has found. Private firms Serco and Sitel failed to get in touch with 245,481 contacts in England either online or from call centres over four months – … Read more