Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations with borrowers Nationwide ramped up virtual mortgage appointments during the lockdown It now carries out more than half of its consultations online Many advisers are expected to accept voluntary redundancy By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May … Read more

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers

Nationwide to cull 150 mortgage advisers as it shifts to online consultations with borrowers Nationwide ramped up virtual mortgage appointments during the lockdown It now carries out more than half of its consultations online Many advisers are expected to accept voluntary redundancy By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May … Read more

UK badger cull to end as Government issues no new licenses from 2022

Badger cull will effectively END in 2022: No new licences for the controversial practice will be issued from next year and existing licences will expire in 2028, Environment Secretary announces Environment Secretary George Eustice told MPs of the update in a statement  New culling licenses will not be issued to farmers after 2022  Pre-existing licenses will … Read more

End of the badger cull as Government announces no new licenses by 2022

Badger cull will effectively END in 2022: No new licences for controversial practice will be issued from next year and existing licences will expire in 2028, Environment Secretary announces  Environment Secretary George Eustice told MPs of the update in a statement  New culling licenses will not be issued to farmers after 2022  Pre-existing licenses will not … Read more

Parakeets face massive cull as Government considers shooting ‘grey squirrels of the sky’

Parakeets face massive cull as Government considers shooting ‘grey squirrels of the sky’ that are Britain’s fastest-spreading bird species Defra is discussing shooting large populations of wild parakeets across Britain Number of parakeets in the UK grew 1,500 per cent between 1995 and 2015  Experts say they pose an ‘urgent economic, societal and environmental problem’ … Read more

Cull of 127,000 ducks begins in desperate bid to stop latest bird flu outbreak from spreading

A cull of 127,000 ducks has begun in a desperate bid to stop the UK’s latest outbreak of deadly bird flu from spreading.  The highly pathogenic H5N8 strain of Avian Influenza has infected a flock being reared for Britain’s largest duck producer Gressingham Foods at Ickburgh, near Thetford, Norfolk. The birds on the farm, and … Read more

Danish farmers demand end to cull of 17million minks over coronavirus outbreak

Danish farmers have demanded the end to a cull of 17 million minks over a coronavirus outbreak after no new cases of people infected with a mutant strain of the virus have been recorded.  A large group of farmers took to the road in their tractors to take part in the demonstration against the cull, … Read more

Denmark will cull ALL of its minks – up to 17 MILLION

Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million in an effort to minimise the risk of them re-transmitting a new version of coronavirus to humans. The nation’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday that the mutated virus in farmed minks could have ‘devastating consequences worldwide’ and action was ‘necessary’. A report from a government … Read more

White collar Covid cull: John Lewis will axe 1,500 head office staff

John Lewis has announced today it is to cut 1,500 head office jobs in an effort to bolster the business in the devastating coronavirus pandemic. The John Lewis Partnership revealed the cuts as part of the next phase of its five-year plan to return it to sustainable profits by 2025. It is the latest blow … Read more

Tab gets canned: Coca-Cola will cull its diet soda that became a 1970s icon

Coca-Cola is bidding farewell to Tab, the company’s first-ever diet soda that became a cult favorite in the 1970s, after sales in the US fizzled.  The soft drink giant on Friday announced it will phase out the soda as well as other under-performing products by the end of 2020 as it works to streamline its … Read more