Uber’s move into bikes and food delivery deepens losses
Getty Images Losses at Uber are mounting even as it reported a 51% annual increase in income from its taxi app business. Income from its global taxi businesses, once it had paid its drivers, rose to $2.7bn (£2.1bn) in the last quarter. But the cost of expansion plans into areas like bike sharing and Uber […]
Former Great Grimsby MP dies aged 86
BBC Austin Mitchell served as the Labour MP for Grimsby for 38 years The former MP Austin Mitchell has died at the age of 86, the Labour Party has confirmed. Mr Mitchell worked as a journalist for Yorkshire Television before being elected to the Great Grimsby constituency in 1977. He held the seat until 2015. […]
Rishi Sunak unveils emergency jobs scheme
Rishi Sunak: “We need to face up to the hard choices coronavirus presents” The government and firms will continue to top up wages of workers who have not been able to return to the workplace full time due to the coronavirus. The Job Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme, will see workers get […]
Why are water bills rising more in some areas?
Getty Images Experts say there are big regional variations in the numbers of people receiving support The cost of living crisis has seen fuel and energy bills rise sharply – but water customers in some parts of the country have also noticed an increase in their bills. BBC News asks what lies behind it. Which […]
Five ways to tackle the US drug epidemic
Getty Images The opioid epidemic has been called the worst ever drug crisis to hit the US. Former US Health Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Tommy G Thompson, and Aspen Health Strategy Group director Alan Weil, look at what could be done to help bring it to an end. Every year, tens of thousands of Americans […]
One killed in ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says
James Waterhouse Ukraine Correspondent Jacqueline Howard BBC News Reuters One person has been killed and four injured in Russia’s latest missile attack on Ukraine’s capital overnight. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old girl was among the injured in the attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Ukrainian military said it had shot […]
Gaza ceasefire concerns grow after Netanyahu issues hostage release demand – live updates
Netanyahu issues hostage release demandpublished at 06:31 Greenwich Mean Time 06:31 GMT Imogen JamesLive reporter Israel says it will resume fighting and end the Gaza ceasefire deal if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages by Saturday. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t specify if he meant all of the hostages, or the three originally due […]
Axed Gateshead factory workers must wait until January for pay-off
BBC Stephen Taylor, who lost his job at the factory, said the fear was that workers would not receive the money they were owed A factory worker has told how many of his former colleagues are “broken” after being told redundancy payments due on Friday were being delayed. In August fruit and juice supplier Orchard […]
No improvement in supplies, say retailers
Getty Images There has been no improvement in petrol supplies at independent petrol stations since Wednesday, according to industry body the Petrol Retailers Association. The PRA, which represents independent fuel retailers, said that more than a quarter (27%) of its members’ were still out of fuel on Thursday. That was better than the 37% which […]
Would you switch your dog to eating lab-grown meat?
Katherine Latham Reporting Nicola Wordsworth Nicola Wordsworth and her dog Bertie are both mostly vegan Nicola Wordsworth says her pet Tibetan Terrier Bertie shares her dietary regime. “I’m a a flexitarian – on-off vegan and vegetarian. I don’t do dairy and I rarely do meat,” says the 54-year-old from Kent. “Bertie is on-off vegan and […]