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The Labour Party has pledged to “breathe new life” into high streets by unveiling a five-point plan that includes reforming commercial tariffs.
During a visit to Tees Valley, Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil their party’s plan to “reverse the 14-year decline of the Conservatives” on Britain’s main streets.
The party’s research says that, for the Conservatives, there have been 3,700 fewer greengrocers, butchers and kiosks since 2010. The plan includes replacing business fees with a business asset tax formula that he says will tick the playing box between giant companies and corporate online retailers.
It is estimated that more than seven million people across the UK will be suffering with expense and credit payments in January, according to the latest data from the city’s regulator.
Residents, single adults with children, ethnic minority adults and others living in the northeast of England were more likely to find themselves in monetary difficulty, the Financial Conduct Authority study said.
Across the study, one in seven adults (14%, or about 7. 4 million people) felt very burdened by their domestic spending and credit commitments at the start of 2024, an improvement from one in five adults (21%, or about 10. 9 million). people). ) who felt this way in January 2023.
Restaurant company Wildwood has revealed plans to close a number of restaurants as part of a first restructuring.
Tasty, which also manages establishments under the Dim T brand, announced its goal of selling about twenty loss-making restaurants after a “difficult” start to the year.
The restructuring plan will involve the organization closing 18 of its restaurants, two of which are already closed to the public. He revealed which sites would be shut down.
A late, off-budget ferry has been introduced at a shipyard on the River Clyde.
There were cheers from those watching the unveiling of the MV Glen Rosa at the Ferguson Marine public shipyard in Port Glasgow. The ferry and its sister ship, the Glen Sannox, are now six years behind schedule and will charge around 3 times the original value. of £97 million.
The 102-meter dual-fuel MV Glen Rosa will carry up to 852 passengers plus at least 127 cars or 16 trucks, or a combination of both, when it enters service.
The scientist who developed the concept of the Higgs subatomic particle, Professor Peter Higgs, has died at the age of 94 after a brief illness.
Higgs, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, predicted the life of a new particle, the Higgs boson, as it came to be known, in 1964. The life of the particle was demonstrated in 2012 after experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for his paintings that led to the discovery of the so-called “divine particle,” the cornerstone of the universe. Higgs died on Monday, the University of Edinburgh announced yesterday.
Yesterday, a fire at a construction site in Hong Kong killed at least five other people and injured 27 others.
Police said they were still receiving calls from other people inside the New Lucky House building in Jordan’s neighborhood.
Local media, adding the South China Morning Post, said the fire broke out in a gymnasium on the first ground and was brought under control. An investigation into the cause will be conducted.
A copy of the comic book that brought Superman to the world sold for a record £6 million (about £4. 7 million), according to the auctioneer.
Heritage Auctions said the rare copy of Action Comics No 1, whose cover dates back to June 1938, was sold to an anonymous buyer, making the price the most expensive comic book ever sold at auction, it added.
It is estimated that there are only one hundred copies of Action Comics No. 1 of the 200,000 published through National Allied Publications, the forerunner of DC Comics.
George Lucas will receive the honorary Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The 79-year-old American writer, director and producer created the Star Wars franchise, with the first film in 1977, and wrote the stories for the first four Indiana Jones films.
In 2012, it sold Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company for $4. 06 billion (£2. 7 billion). The honorary Palme d’Or will be presented at the final rite in Cannes on May 25.
Audi has unveiled an updated edition of its S3 sports sedan with more punch and new technologies.
The refreshed S3 will be available in two frame styles: a five-door sedan and a four-door sedan. Its 2. 0-litre TFSI engine produces 328 hp and 420 Nm of torque, compared to 305 hp and 400 Nm for the previous model. .
It also has a 10. 1-inch touchscreen, DAB radio, and wireless smartphone charging. The S3 will go on sale in May and pricing will be closer to launch.
The FTSE closed 8. 68 points lower to end the day at 7,934. 79. The CAC 40 was down 70. 13 points at 8,049. 17, the Dax was down 242. 28 points at 18,076. 69 and the Dow Jones was down 9. 13 points at 38,883. 67.
The day will start with sunny spells in the east, while in the west the sky will be cloudy with bouts of rain, says BBC Weather. These will be intense for many and then spread eastward. It will be a windy but milder day.
Thursday will be a cloudier day for the most part, with showers or longer periods of rain to the west. In the east and north, the chances of some sunny spells will be better. The weather will be windy and mild.
John has been with Car Dealer since 2013 after spending 25 years at the newspaper as a journalist and then Deputy Deputy Editor/Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional and National Titles. John is an Assistant Editor of Car Dealer’s Editorial Department and social media manager.
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