Would you pay for Twitter? Job posting reveals the app is building a subscription service

Would you pay for Twitter? Online job posting reveals the social media site is building a subscription service with a payment feature A job listing appeared on Twitter’s career page looking for an engineer The position requires them to help build a subscription platform for the app However, the post nor Twitter is providing any … Read more

Rishi Sunak vows to ‘protect every job possible’ in ‘mini-Budget’

Rishi Sunak’s mini-Budget at a glance A £1,000 Jobs Retention Bonus for employers who bring back furloughed workers beyond January, paid per employee, at a total cost of up to £9bn. Immediately increase stamp duty threshold from £125,000 to £500,000 until March 31. Cut VAT from 20 per cent to five per cent for hospitality … Read more

Government unveils new scheme designed to get young job hunters back into work

Graduates and jobseekers have welcomed the Government’s £2billion ‘Kickstart’ scheme to create more jobs for young people. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are deemed to be at risk of long-term unemployment.  The Kickstart programme was revealed in today’s … Read more

Whitbread chief Alison Brittain rebuffs Lloyds job speculation

Whitbread chief Alison Brittain rebuffs speculation she could succeed Antonio Horta-Osorio at Lloyds By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 23:06 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 23:06 BST, 7 July 2020 The boss of Whitbread attempted to brush off suggestion she could get the top job at Lloyds as she outlined plans to … Read more

Woman loses job after attacking pubgoer for ‘speaking Polish’

A woman caught on camera attacking NHS care worker in Wetherspoons pub for ‘speaking too loudly Polish’ today denied she is racist and says she was ‘set up’.  Clare McCarthy was filmed lunging at Anna Rutkowska at The Kingswood Colliers bar in Bristol and was accused of shouting: ‘You’re in England now.’  But the 30-year-old … Read more

Teen reveals she tested POSITIVE for COVID-19 the day after getting a nose job

‘I feel really guilty’: Asymptomatic teen reveals she was cleared to get a nose job BEFORE receiving her COVID-19 test results – only to test POSITIVE the day after her surgery TikTok user @lsdbebe opened up about the situation in a viral video, which has been viewed more than three million times since it was … Read more

Banks braced for £10bn hit as job losses shoot up

Banks braced for £10bn hit as customers are weaned off loan payment holidays just as job losses shoot up Lenders have granted payment holidays on loans worth more than £250bn Many of the three-month holidays will come to an end this month Fears are rising of a wave of defaults as customers lose their incomes  … Read more

What makes Jason Donovan proud? ‘My little girl’s got a job on Neighbours… and I’m over the moon!’

For the headline writers, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Jason Donovan, still etched in our hearts as Scott from Neighbours, has been proving himself to be the neighbour we’d all love to have in real life. Not once but twice in recent times he has dashed to the rescue of those who have … Read more

Boris Johnson urges firms to hold job cuts as Arcadia axes 500

Boris Johnson today urged firms to hold off on job cuts ‘until times get better’ after John Lewis, Harrods and Topshop announced plans to close stores and axe workers as coronavirus continues to choke Britain’s high streets.  The Prime Minister was confronted about a growing numbers of job losses amid the pandemic during todays PMQs, insisting the Government … Read more

Boris pleads with firms to hold off on job cuts as Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group axes 500 workers

Boris Johnson today urged firms to hold off on job cuts until ‘times get better’ after John Lewis, Harrods and Topshop announced plans to close stores and axe workers as coronavirus continues to choke Britain’s high streets.  The Prime Minister was confronted about a growing numbers of job losses amid the pandemic during todays PMQs, insisting the Government … Read more