Why you probably aren’t washing your towels often enough
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbes along the way. But how long should you wait before throwing them into the laundry? And while those fluffy fibres might not show any signs of dirt, they are a breeding ground […]
DUP MP warns of agri-food workers ‘crisis’ after Brexit
BBC Food producers fear they will not have the staff necessary to harvest fruit, flowers and vegetables Agri-food companies are at “crisis point” over the availability of labour, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP has warned. David Simpson said a failure to secure an arrangement on future seasonal labour could hit businesses hard after Brexit. […]
Sector must improve lorry driver conditions or face tax, MPs say
Getty Images The haulage industry should be given a two-year deadline to recruit more lorry drivers and improve facilities or face a new tax, a group of MPs has said. The Transport Committee said the sector needed to “get its house in order”. Over the past year, a shortage of HGV drivers has contributed to […]
‘I started my firm for under £500 as a bet’
“I started my firm for under £500 as a bet” “It’s really important that you don’t just go and buy the best-looking website, or furnish your team with loads of really cool merchandise,” says the CEO of Snaffling Pig, Nick Coleman. “I started my company as a bet for £500. Now it turns over £6m […]
Summer easing helped Welsh economy bounce
Getty Images Do the latest economic figures map Wales’ route to recovery after the pandemic? The Welsh economy bounced back when lockdown restrictions were eased last summer, latest figures show. The gross domestic product (GDP) for Wales saw a 14.4% rise for the months between July and September, compared with the previous three months of […]
Tesco set to cut 1,100 Cardiff call centre jobs
Google Tesco proposes closing the call centre in Cardiff in February 2018 Up to 1,100 jobs are expected to go at a Tesco call centre in Cardiff, the supermarket giant has confirmed. Tesco said it was consolidating its customer engagement centres (CEC) into a single site in Dundee, where 250 jobs would be created. First […]
Tributes pour in as 2018 Leicester City helicopter crash inquest begins
Getty Images/Facebook/Instagram (Left to right): Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Kaveporn Punpare, Nusara Suknamai, Izabela Roza Lechowicz and Eric Swaffer were killed in the crash Tributes have been paid to five people who died in a helicopter crash outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, as an inquest into their deaths gets under way more than six years later. […]
Staff shortages remain despite more out of work in Wales
Getty Images Prior to the pandemic, the hospitality industry employed 3.2m people and was the UK’s third largest private sector employer Serious staff shortages remain in the food and drink industry despite 21,000 more people in Wales being out of work compared with a year ago. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there were […]
Brexit food supply fears grow: ‘It’s too late, baby’
BBC Food and drink supplies in the UK face more disruption after the end of the Brexit transition period than they did from Covid, the industry has said. “There are 14 [working] days to go,” the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) chief executive, Ian Wright, told MPs. “How on earth can traders prepare in this […]
Covid business grants not enough, hospitality firms say
Chow Down/Tom Martin Many hospitality and leisure firms have been hit by a collapse in bookings and reduced footfall due to Omicron fears Businesses in the hospitality industry hit by customers’ renewed concerns over Covid have said a new weekly grant of up to £6,000 is not enough. But a pub owner in North Lincolnshire […]