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Reports suggest that price comparison site Compare the Market have been fined £17.9m for keeping house insurance prices “artificially high”. Compare the Market were engaged in Contracts with insurance firms allowed them to keep prices artificially high, as it stopped these firms from offering cheaper prices on other sites due to clauses in their contract….
A police officer is at serious risk of dismissal after he was caught swapping the barcode from 7p carrots onto a almost £10 box of donuts. PC Simon Read, of Cambridgeshire Police, headed down to a Tesco Extra store in his full uniform and attempted to buy the donuts for 7p by printing a barcode…
Book and food retailer WHSmith has reportedly turned over a loss due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is likely due to travel restrictions being imposed in the UK, as WHSmith is primarily a brick and mortar store, as oppose to an online one. They reported a pre-tax loss of £226m, down from a £135m profit…
The government has confirmed that students will be allowed to go home for christmas and to spend the holidays with their families. The coronavirus pandemic currently doesn’t allow university students to travel home, and requires them to stay at their university accommodation. But, between December 3rd and December 9th, students will be allowed to make…
The PM Boris Johnson is reportedly not happy, after he was pushing into locking down the country on what he now considers “false data”. This comes after recently news that Mark Woolhouse, the professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, believes that almost half of people in the UK with coronavirus or related symptoms…
Rishi Sunak announced today at the house of commons that the UKs furlough scheme is to now expire in March. The furlough scheme has been in force for a while now, and the public was told that it was to end on the 31st of October, but, it has officially been extended until March, to…
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