TUC: Keep May Day free
Guy Clapperton
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Economy
The Trades Unions Congress (TUC) has attacked Government proposals to scrap the May Day Bank Holiday in the UK. The Government is in a consultation period over the idea and the TUC has, shall we say, been reasonably clear of its view.Is Android about to overtake Apple?
Martin Cloake
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Technology
Google's Android app market is growing fast and recent industry talk has been predicting it will overtake Apple's App Store by the end of the summer. But some fresh analysis questions the basis of these claims and argues that in the app economy, size does not necessarily matter.Facebook users face off
Guy Clapperton
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Technology, Asia
Facebook is in the soup over privacy again - this time people are angry that the system is calibrated to recognise their faces and tag pictures automatically.UK manufacturing back on track?
Adrian Holliday
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Company, Job Focus, Manufacturing, Retail
Nissan has just announced its new Qashqai model will be built in Sunderland. This morning BMW announced it is committing £500m to the new next-gen Mini, guaranteeing more than 5,000 jobs at Cowley. Has our, then, much talked-about UK manufacturing revival actually arrived?Can football break its wage habit?
Martin Cloake
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Sport
It is, as Deloitte's Dan Jones said in summing up the latest report into English football's finances, "crunch time". Put simply, the dilemma clubs face is this. Despite a clear correlation between wages paid out and success achieved, they need to stop paying out ever higher wages.Tesco 'not too big' claims new boss
Adrian Holliday
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Economy, Public Services, Retail, Employment
Tesco is not too big and it is a force for good for local communities. Phil Clarke, the new boss of Tesco, is in fighting talk. "Is Tesco too big? I have my own view. We're not. We work extremely hard to make the lives of customers better every day." Not everyone will agree though.Postcode helps people live longer
David Burrows
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: News
The life-expectancy gap between the middle classes in comfortable suburbs and the low paid in down-at-heel estates is widening fast.Those in the South are 25% more likely to live to 75 than their counterparts in urban Northern England and Scotland.
Premier League pays £1.3bn to players
Martin Cloake
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Sport
England's Premier League football clubs made record annual revenues of £1,981m in the 2009/10 season, but with wages increasing to a record wages/revenue ratio of 67% – that's a total of £1.3bn paid to players – there's real cause for concern says the latest Deloitte Football Finance report.£22m cancer fund goes unspent
Adrian Holliday
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Debt, News , Public Services
Nearly 200 cancer sufferers have been deprived desperately needed drugs simply because they live in the wrong area. It's not a matter of money. Around £22m was available through the Cancer Drugs Fund. So it's more postcode lottery. Particularly for seriously ill people living in Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.UK population will be biggest in EU
David Burrows
Jun 9th 2011
Filed under: Economy
Britain's supposed open door policy to foreigners will result in the population rising to 79 million people by 2060 and the UK becoming the most heavily populated country in the EU, experts have warned.Despite being far smaller than Germany and France, the UK will leapfrog them in population size and add 17 million citizens because of relaxed immigration rules, higher birth rates than other EU nations and the rising numbers of UK pensioners.
