By Live Commentary Updated: 09:17 BST, 18 April 2024 The FTSE 100 is up 0.5 per cent in early trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are EasyJet, Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Deliveroo, National Grid, Rentokil, Home REIT, Dunelm and AJ Bell. Read the Thursday 18 April Business Live blog below. > If … Read more
If there was an Oscar for headboards, the one in our fifth-floor suite in Norman Hotel in Paris would be a contender. Formed from lavish burnished wood that gently curves around the bed, with a centrepiece of stitched brown padding and sockets and lamps incorporated into the design on either side, I’d wager the judges … Read more
By John Abiona Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2024 Luxury stocks sparkled as LVMH eased concerns about the health of the industry. The French giant, one of Europe’s most valuable companies and home to brands such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Tiffany, reported a 3 per cent rise in first-quarter sales to £17.7billion. The … Read more
Doha’s Hamad International Airport has been named the World’s Best Airport at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2024, aka ‘the Oscars of the airport industry’. The airport, home to a 6,000-square-metre indoor tropical garden and which offers unlimited free Wi-Fi, also takes home the gong for World’s Best Airport Shopping. It previously won the top … Read more
Car insurance premiums are rising, with drivers paying £543 on average in 2023 Citizens Advice says steep price hikes are impossible for many to afford Insurers defend premium increases by saying their own costs are rising quickly By Sam Barker Updated: 16:27 BST, 17 April 2024 Some households are being forced to choose between buying … Read more
By Jessica Hamilton Published: 13:58 BST, 17 April 2024 | Updated: 13:59 BST, 17 April 2024 It’s a hotel with something to shout about. Namely – a scream therapy experience. Armathwaite Hall Hotel & Spa in the Lake District offers guests the chance to release pent-up frustrations through screaming. The grand stately home, which is … Read more
‘Have you ever visited Nashville before?’ a man shouts out above deafening rock music. We’re on the top floor of The Stage, one of the honky-tonk bars on Lower Broadway. Live music bellows out behind us, and he struggles to hear my response over the band’s frontman, whose banter is almost as loud as his … Read more
By This Is Money Updated: 08:27 BST, 17 April 2024 Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Entain, ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Antofagasta, Workspace Group, and Liontrust Asset Management. Bank of England governor hints UK will cut interest rates before US Andrew Bailey last night hinted that the Bank of England could … Read more
The last thing any tourist wants is to buckle up for a boring attraction. So a new study that reveals ‘the 100 most boring attractions across the globe’ serves a useful purpose for those keen to guarantee a holiday free from the mundane. America, it seems, needs to up its game on the excitement front, … Read more
Britain being flooded with as many as one million fake stamps a week from China By Toby Walne Updated: 22:28 BST, 16 April 2024 Money Mail today demands that Royal Mail stops fining thousands of innocent people with a £5 penalty for receiving mail with a counterfeit stamp. We insist it accepts that as many … Read more
