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So you want to start an Australian airline? Here are all the reasons you can't – video
via theguardian.comIt’s been a bad year for Australian aviation. First Bonza collapsed, and then Rex, each airline unable to compete with Qantas and Virgin’s duopoly. So why have so many airlines promising to bring lower prices and better service come and swiftly gone? Guardian Australia's Elias Visontay explains the myriad factors that mean that if you're wanting to start a new carrier, the odds are heavily stacked against youAirline ombudsman plan gives hope to passengers but Qantas-Virgin duopo -
State pensioners handed £44,200 a year by NHS for care home bills
via express.co.ukState pensioners can get an average of £44,200 a year paid towards medical care home bills by the NHS. -
‘I claimed back £440 compensation for cancelled flights using Martin Lewis’ MSE tip'
via express.co.ukA fan of Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert says she claimed back a whopping £440 after flight chaos in Barcelona. -
Octopus Energy offers free electric blankets to customers losing Winter Fuel Payment
via express.co.ukElectric blankets have been saving Octopus Energy customers an average of £150 over a three-month time span. -
State pensioners handed £58 after losing Winter Fuel Payment
via express.co.ukState pensioners losing their £300 Winter Fuel Payment can still get a £58 benefit this winter in parts of the UK. -
£105 warning over 'vampire devices' hiking up energy bills, expert states
via express.co.uk'Vampire devices' consume a surprising amount of energy and may be the culprit behind unnecessarily heightened energy bills. -
Octopus Energy hands 750,000 customers a share of £500,000
via express.co.ukEXCLUSIVE: Octopus Energy customers have been cashing in by using more electricity when wholesale prices plummet. -
Hope for Bank of England rate cut dashed by soaring air fares
via express.co.ukThe headline inflation rate was unchanged at 2.2 percent in August, but core inflation - stripping out energy, food, alcohol and tobacco - rose to 3.6 percent. -
EDF hands customers ‘free energy’ on Sunday if they stop using dishwasher
via express.co.ukEDF customers can get free electricity on Sundays with some changes such as not using the dishwasher from Monday to Friday. -
DWP reveals 3.6 million claimants receive PIP; Guide to accessing up to £737 per month
via express.co.ukThe Department for Work and Pensions has shared the most recent figures on Personal Independence Payment and how the financial support has been distributed -
Odds of UK interest rate cut this week fall after inflation sticks at 2.2% – business live
via theguardian.comUK inflation rate remained unchanged last month, as air fares rose and petrol prices dropped, but underlying inflation has risenDespite fears of a Taylor Swift effect, hotel and restaurant prices actually fell last month.Today’s inflation report shows that prices at restaurants and hotels fell by 0.7% in August, compared with July. Continue reading... -
Who keeps Europe's wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east – and I went undercover to find them | Saša Uhlová
via theguardian.comI took on three of the jobs shunned by western workers. Our mini-series reveals the hidden lives of those with no choiceUndercover as a farm worker in Germany: ‘My hands are numb. No one knows when the shift will end’Migration statistics don’t tell us much about the people who leave their own countries and loved ones to work in poorly paid and physically demanding jobs. A lot of the time, we don’t even see them – because they live somewhere out of sight in hostels a -
I paid off my £3,000 Klarna loan but the bills keep coming
via theguardian.comI was told ownership of my account had been transferred to another company and Klarna won’t helpIn 2021, I bought a £3,000 laptop with a three-year loan from Klarna. I made the final payment in April and received confirmation it had been closed. But now another company is chasing me for nearly £200 it says I still owe.Despite having made that final payment, the following month I received a letter that said the “ownership of your loan account” had been transferred to -
How to cut the cost of travelling on your own
via theguardian.comDitch package holidays for group tours, use credit card rewards, and make sure it’s all by public transportHeading off abroad alone? Give the single supplement the swerve and cut the cost of solo travel. Continue reading... -
Superyacht and private jet tax could raise £2bn a year, say campaigners
via theguardian.comOxfam says ‘commonsense solution’ would reduce emissions and raise urgently needed climate financeFair taxes on superyachts and private jets in the UK could have brought in £2bn last year to provide vital funds for communities suffering the worst effects of climate breakdown, campaigners say.Private jet use in the UK is soaring. It was home to the second highest number of private flights in Europe last year, behind only France, according to figures from the European Business Av -
Japan has just 13 female CEOs among top 1,600 companies, survey shows
via theguardian.comFewer than 1% of chief executive officers at the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are women, survey findsJapan’s long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that just 13 chief executive officers at the country’s top companies are female.Women lead just 0.8% of the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier prime market, according to a survey by the Kyodo news agency, which bas -
Warning social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone voices
via theguardian.comResearch released by Starling Bank finds 28% of people have been targeted at least once in thepast yearConsumers have been warned that their social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone their voices with AI and then trick their family and friends out of cash.Scammers look for videos that have been uploaded online and need only a few seconds of audio to replicate how the target talks. They then call or send voicemails to friends and family, asking them to send money urgently. Conti -
UK’s ‘not for EU’ meat and dairy labelling plan postponed indefinitely
via theguardian.comPolicy devised under Conservatives will be reviewed after warnings of chaos for producers and suppliersGovernment plans to force food manufacturers to put “not for EU” labels on all meat and dairy products sold across Britain next month have been indefinitely postponed after warnings that the scheme could cause “chaos” for producers and suppliers.The government will instead review the policy, which was devised under the Conservative administration. Legislation to implemen -
Rise in chocolate prices could spook shoppers this Halloween
via theguardian.comIncrease of 11% in a year far outstrips grocery inflation in UK, according to the consumer group Which?Shoppers may face a choccy horror show this Halloween after the price of chocolate shot up 11% in the past year – far outstripping increases for other foods across UK supermarkets.Britons opening their doors to trick-or-treaters could decide to cut back on spending for 31 October, as the cost of chocolate rose sharply in the year to the end of August, way above wider grocery inflation of -
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs
via theguardian.comSir Cary Cooper says ‘micromanagers’ risk driving away talent, damaging wellbeing and harming productivityEmployers who force staff to return to the office five days a week have been called the “dinosaurs of our age” by one of the world’s leading experts who coined the term “presenteeism”.Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School, said employers imposin -
UAW threatens strike at ‘out of control’ Stellantis over factory commitments
via theguardian.comThe union has accused the company of refusing to provide information about 2023 contract promisesOne of America’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, could face fresh strikes after the United Auto Workers (UAW) announced plans for members to vote on authorizing a walkout.The UAW president Shawn Fain accused executives at the automotive giant of being “out of control” on Tuesday evening. “The company wants you to be scared,” he told his union’s members, “but w -
Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says
via theguardian.comExclusive: analysis finds $800bn increase in direct support for activities including deforestation and fossil fuel useThe world is spending at least $2.6tn (£2tn) a year on subsidies that drive global heating and destroy nature, according to new analysis.Governments continue to provide billions of dollars in tax breaks, subsidies and other spending that directly work against the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the 2022 Kunming-Montreal agreement to halt biodiversity loss, the -
Fossil fuel companies sponsor $5.6bn in global ‘sportswashing’ deals
via theguardian.comThinktank says funding from oil and gas firms is attempt to ‘divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis’Fossil fuel companies pumped at least $5.6bn (£4.2bn) of sponsorship money into motorsports, football, golf and even snow sports in an effort to “buy social licence to operate”, according to a new report.Almost no major spectator sport remains untouched by oil and gas money, according to research carried out by the New Weather Institute (NWI), -
Exodus from workforce costs UK ‘£16bn a year’ in lost tax receipts
via theguardian.comInstitute for Employment Studies says UK has 800,000 fewer people in work or looking for work since before CovidThe UK has suffered the biggest contraction in its workforce since the 1980s, costing the public finances at least £16bn a year in lost tax receipts, according to a study.Hundreds of thousands of people have quit the labour market since the pandemic and never returned, undermining the strength of the economy and leaving the government out of pocket, according to the Institute for -
The Guardian view on Europe’s future: spend big or risk the consequences | Editorial
via theguardian.comFormer European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi is right to call for Marshall plan-type investment in the continent’s futureIn a landmark 400-page report on Europe’s competitiveness and future published last week, Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, did not mince words. In the absence of annual investment three times greater than that delivered by the postwar Marshall plan, Mr Draghi predicted, Europe would face a “slow agony” as its economies -
An ingenious plan to revive THG, or too clever by half? | Nils Pratley
via theguardian.comProposal to ‘demerge’ group’s Ingenuity e-commerce division needs far more clarity to convince stock marketMatthew Moulding has muttered about spin-offs at THG almost from the moment he brought the Lookfantastic and Myprotein e-commerce company, then called the Hut Group, to the stock market four years ago at a princely valuation of £4.5bn.Here comes the first actual proposal, albeit one at a very early stage: there could be a “demerger” of Ingenuity, the divi -
The UK's two-child benefit limit has rightly caused outrage. But another cruel policy needs urgent attention | Ruth Patrick
via theguardian.comThanks to the benefit cap, a family of five that I have worked with are living on as little as £65 a weekThis morning, about 300,000 children woke up in households affected by the benefit cap. Lots of these children – enough to fill more than 1,000 primary schools – will be living in cold and damp homes, with food cupboards near empty; in deep poverty that leaves normal childhood activities, such as after-school clubs, swimming lessons and family days out, far out of reach.Sinc -
‘We don’t want golf just to be for retired guys … it’s for everyone’: Nigel Oddy of American Golf
via theguardian.comA post-lockdown surge in interest in the sport should help diversify the clientele both on the greens and in golf shops, says the retail veteranFor most chief executives, a round on the golf course is a quiet Friday afternoon treat after the business of the day is done. For Nigel Oddy, the fairways and bunkers of Britain are his second office as he meets with suppliers to his American Golf stores.The retail veteran has run Europe’s biggest golf retailer since April 2023, reviving a childho -
OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’ – and I have thoughts
via theguardian.comIn this week’s newsletter: The AI company says its ‘o1’ model is capable of reason, a key blocker in the way of truly gamechanging artificial intelligence. But is it that simple?• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWe are fast approaching two years of the generative AI revolution, sparked by the November 2022 release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. So far it’s been a mixed bag.OpenAI recently announced it had crossed 200 million weekly active users -
Ovo Energy to pay out nearly £2.4m over customer complaint failures
via theguardian.comOfgem says 1,395 customers will receive compensation after lengthy delays in getting complaints addressedBusiness live – latest updatesThe energy supplier Ovo has agreed to pay £2.37m in compensation to customers and towards a redress scheme over failures in how it handled customer complaints.The sector regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, said 1,395 Ovo customers would receive compensation after lengthy delays in getting their complaints addressed, in some cases up to 18 months. Ther
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