Premier Inn owner Whitbread is set to axe around 1,500 UK jobs as part of plans to build more hotel rooms and slash its chain of branded restaurants by more than 200. The company said, while announcing a 36% hike in annual profits to £561m, that it was to begin a consultation on cutting roles
Humza Yousaf is considering resigning as Scotland’s first minister as early as today, Sky News understands. A senior source has said the embattled SNP leader could “call it quits” later ahead of a key vote of no confidence later this week. Mr Yousaf is facing two no confidence votes at Holyrood in the coming days
Daimler’s new, all-electric truck brand made its Canadian debut this week with the official market launch of its battery electric class 4 and 5 medium duty work trucks. After making its North American debut at the 2023 ACT Expo in Anaheim, California, Daimler Truck’s RIZON brand has continued on a steady march towards production with
The average price paid for comprehensive motor insurance rose 1% in the first quarter of the year, according to industry data indicating an easing in the steep rises seen last year. The latest tracker issued by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) showed a 1% increase on the previous three months to £635. That was
An aid group is to resume its work in Gaza four weeks after suspending operations following the killing of seven workers. World Central Kitchen (WCK) says it will resume operations in the besieged strip on Monday, delivering food to “address widespread hunger”, including in the north. It comes following the killing of the WCK workers
The UK will not to take back asylum seekers who cross the border into Ireland “until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France”, according to a government source. The comment comes amid an escalating row between Dublin and Westminster over the Irish government’s plans for new legislation to enable asylum seekers
Block Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips to developing a full bitcoin mining system. In a post on Tuesday, the global tech firm announced that it
Despite blockbuster earnings from giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft, layoffs continue to ripple through the tech industry. Layoffs.fyi, a platform monitoring job cuts in the tech sector, recorded more than 263,000 job losses in 2023 alone. As of April, there have been more than 75,000 job losses in the industry so far in 2024.
One of the UK’s leading road and rail logistics companies, Maritime Transport, is making some big moves in a bid to electrify its trucking fleet – with fully 18 all-electric, three axle tractor units from Scania leading the charge. As part of the UK’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) program, Maritime Transport has put
More human remains have been found in two locations as part of an investigation that started when a man’s torso was discovered in Salford. Police believe the torso belongs to a man in his 60s and have informed his family about his death, but have not yet identified him publicly. In a news conference today,
A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany. The two Ukrainians were killed at a shopping centre in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. They were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Shortly after the killings on
The number of migrants that have crossed the Channel in small boats is at its highest ever level for the first four months of the year. Some 7,167 people have arrived on UK shores after travelling by small boat from the continent between 1 January to 27 April. This compares to 5,745 for the same
Blackstone, the American private equity behemoth, is this weekend finalising a revised offer to buy the company which owns the music catalogues of Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sky News has learnt that Blackstone is preparing to lodge an improved bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) as early as Monday. Its offer will
In this article CVX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gas pumps are seen at a Chevron gas station in Orlando. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chevron beat earnings expectations Friday, but its profit fell from the year-ago period as its refineries and international gas business faced headwinds. The oil
Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK. More than 80% of recent arrivals in the republic came via the land border with Northern Ireland, Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week. Rishi Sunak told Sky News it showed the UK’s Rwanda scheme was
Andreas Hale, ESPNApr 28, 2024, 01:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Conor McGregor‘s empire is expanding. The former two-division UFC champion is now a part-owner of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships, he announced during the BKFC KnuckleMania 4 card Saturday night. “‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor here,” McGregor said in a video that aired before the evening’s
All the cool suburbanites are already taking their kids to school, loading up at the farmers’ market, and making deliveries on clever and capable cargo e-bikes, but the new Momentum Cito E+ from Giant raises the cargo bike bar even higher — and makes leaving the car at home easier than ever. Momentum is a
US President Joe Biden has delivered an election-year roasting of his rival Donald Trump, criticising his immaturity. Speaking at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the 81-year-old responded to concerns that he is too old for a second presidential term. “Yes, age is an issue – I’m a grown man running
Rishi Sunak has failed to rule out holding a general election in July, as speculation remains rife over the timing of the national vote. The prime minister has repeatedly said his “working assumption” is the election would take place in the second half of this year – with the law stating January 2025 is the
ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told