The grocery chain Kroger said on Monday that its chief executive, Rodney McMullen, resigned after a board investigation of his personal conduct. Mr. McMullen’s conduct was not related to the company’s financial performance or its operations, Kroger said in a news release, but it was “inconsistent” with the company’s business ethics policy. His actions did […]
There have been 983 convictions – 700 of which were privately initiated by the Post Office – linked to the faulty Horizon IT programme. People whose convictions are quashed can apply to the Overturned Convictions Scheme, whether or not they are in the GLO group. It is this scheme that the government has taken over […]
President Trump during his last State of the Union address on Feb. 4, 2020. Trump will return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Trump will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on […]
The consequences of a crypto reserve Cryptocurrencies are again riding high, after President Trump announced that he would create a national crypto reserve with five tokens, including three lesser-known and highly volatile ones. It’s the latest boost that Trump has given the crypto industry, which spent some $130 million backing him and other Republicans. But […]
More than one million low-paid workers in the UK are to be entitled to 80% of their weekly salary as sick pay from the first day of illness, under government plans. At the moment, UK workers earning less than £123 a week are not entitled to any statutory sick pay. “No one should ever have […]
BBC Leaseholders and some renters currently pay a service charge Ministers have outlined plans to abolish the leasehold system in England and Wales. Proposals to change the law would ban the sale of new leasehold flats. Under the leasehold system, third-party landlords known as freeholders own the building and a leaseholder buys the right to […]
BREAKINGBREAKING, The attack took place in a bus station, police said, killing a 70-year-old man and injuring four others. A 70-year-old man has been killed and four others wounded in a stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, officials said. The attack took place in a bus station on Monday, Israeli police said, […]
Naomi Girma, women’s soccer’s first million-dollar player, was injured and replaced in her Chelsea debut on Sunday. The United States defender was taken off after 59 minutes of a 2-2 draw against Brighton and it was not immediately clear how serious the unspecified injury was. “We’ll need to assess her tomorrow, but it doesn’t look […]
Julian Paszkiewicz Radio 4, You & Yours Stephen Stephen said dealing with the fraud had taken him seven hours a day to resolve since it first began three weeks ago A man targeted by fraudsters who got his mobile phone number from an energy company said he often woke up in the night thinking “what […]
BBC As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft’s essential Global Positioning System (GPS) suffered an unexplained interference, triggering an emergency diversion. The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 had already descended to around 850ft (259m) when the disruption occurred. Instead […]