Trainline on track for recovery: Ticket bookings bounce back strongly after lockdown easing – but sales are still only half pre-pandemic levels UK net ticket sales of £334m in quarter to end of May, half of £481m in Q1 2019 At the end of May, UK sales were at around 70% of the levels of 2019 … Read more
Pro-Kremlin TV station airs video claiming to show Putin-foe Alexei Navalny walking around in jail in a bid to expose his ‘lies’ about needing urgent medical attention Navalny went on hunger strike this week and claims guards deprive him of sleep Opposition leader says he’s been refused a doctor’s visit for acute leg, back pain … Read more
Prostate cancer patient did not know doctor had financial link to new private treatment that he ‘strongly recommended’ to him, tribunal hears Consultant urologist Paul Miller, 62, accused of being ‘financially motivated’ Referred eight patients to undergo high intensity focused ultrasound (Hifu) The treatment uses high frequency sound waves to burn away cancer cells GMC argues conflict … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ‘strongly’ advising Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19. The recommendation from the nation’s top public health agency on Thursday is some of the firmest guidance yet from the government on … Read more
ITV ad revenues recover as hit crime dramas Des and Honour help lift its fortunes and production on most shows restarts Total fourth-quarter ad revenues are expected to be ‘slightly up’ on last year Other popular ITV shows this year included Prime William’s A Planet for Us All A cancelled Love Island series and fewer … Read more
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has said it has managed to open dozens of premises despite its hotel rooms remaining mostly unoccupied. The FTSE 100 firm, which owns the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza chains, revealed it opened 82 hotels in the three months to September 30, taking the number it has opened this year to … Read more
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says he is officially endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president. The mogul, 50, made the stakes of this election clear while talking to Charlamagne Tha God on his own Revolt TV cable network on Thursday, telling the interviewer he thinks the 2020 elections are a life-or-death decision. Diddy, who described himself as … Read more
The Bank of England today insisted it is ‘by no means out of firepower’ and will respond ‘promptly and strongly’ to support the UK economy during the second wave of coronavirus. Governor Andrew Bailey said the Bank will be ready to act during a second and even third wave of the disease as and when … Read more
Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, was released last year. It offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Snowden turned from obscure NSA worker to whisleblower, a move which set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks. … Read more
Scientific studies have found that the more your income increases, the happier you are, up until US$75,000 (£60,000) a year. But in a new analysis of 40,000 US adults, Professor Jean Twenge from San Diego University found an even deeper relationship between money and happiness. The study discovered that the difference in happiness by income … Read more