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Yodel to hire 3,000 workers for seasonal shopping frenzy
Yodel, the parcel carrier which narrowly averted collapse earlier this year, is to begin hiring thousands of workers as it prepares for the peak shopping period in the final quarter of the year.Sky News understands that Yodel is lining up millions of pounds in seasonal financing as part of plans to recruit more than 3,000 …
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Thousands of Boeing staff to go on strike
Workers at aircraft maker Boeing are to go on strike for the first time since the global financial crash, piling more pressure on the troubled company. Not since 2008 have workers gone on strike. More than 30,000 staff are to take part in industrial action at one of the US’s largest exporters. Staff walked out …
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UK Government to buy ESO from National Grid in £630m deal
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.The Government is to buy the Electricity System Operator (ESO) from National Grid after striking a deal worth £630 million.It will pave …
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Funding woes see nearly 20% of female business leaders ‘delay or cancel plans’
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Almost one in five female business leaders have been forced to scrap or delay their company plans due to difficulties in securing …
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Female Asda workers to hold demonstration outside superstore over pay dispute
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Female Asda workers are to rally outside a superstore next week in a long-standing dispute over pay.The women, represented by GMB Scotland, …
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Paddy Power owner Flutter snaps up majority stake in Brazil’s NSX
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Paddy Power owner Flutter has agreed to buy a majority stake in a Brazilian betting firm as it continues its global expansion.Flutter …
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Energy tsar: We will not carpet UK with windfarms and pylons for clean power
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.The Government will not be “carpeting the countryside” with windfarms and  pylons in its push towards clean power, the official leading the …
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Tens of millions could pay more if Vodafone-Three merger goes ahead, CMA warns
Tens of millions of mobile phone users could end up paying more if the merger between Vodafone and Three goes ahead, the competition watchdog has warned.The deal would create the UK’s biggest mobile network and could also improve network quality, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said. The proposed £15bn merger, announced last year, would …
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UK’s largest retailer loses Supreme Court ‘fire and rehire’ fight
Tesco says it will accept a Supreme Court ruling in a so-called ‘fire and rehire’ case amid government efforts to bolster workers’ rights.The Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw), along with three of its members at Tesco who also represent the union, took legal action over proposals in 2021 to fire staff at …
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Ban on junk food ads before 9pm to come into force next year
A 9pm watershed on TV junk food advertising will come into force in October 2025, the government has confirmed.This will come alongside a total ban on paid-for online advertising for junk food, under plans to tackle childhood obesity. Politics Live: Keir Starmer reveals NHS planThe new rules deliver on a Labour manifesto commitment to implement …
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‘Widespread fury’ over impending job losses at oil refinery
Scotland’s only oil refinery is to close by next summer with the loss of 400 jobs, it has been confirmed.Owners Petroineos previously said the Grangemouth plant had been facing “significant challenges” due to global market pressures and has been unable to compete against more modern and efficient sites in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. …
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Waterstones coming back to Oxford Street after eight years away
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