Can you make a living from environment-friendly crisps?
Farmers Mark Green and Sean Mason grow and sell potatoes and together have started a business venture making environmentally-friendly crisps. In 2014 the pair, from Herefordshire, decided over a pint to start working together and spent the next few years developing a crisps brand with sustainability running through its core. The crisps are packaged in […]
Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza takeover plan
The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there. “We will not allow the rights of our people… to be infringed on,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the State of […]
Companies feel burn from US lawmakers
Getty Images Executives from Juul, Reynolds American, NJOY and Fontem US lawmakers called for tougher rules for e-cigarette companies at a hearing on Wednesday as they blamed executives for introducing a new generation to nicotine. The US is looking to write new industry rules amid rising concern about vaping among teenagers. Congress recently raised the […]
Gas price rises prompt urgent government talks
Malu Cursino & Alex Kleiderman BBC News Getty Images The government is holding urgent talks with representatives from the energy industry amid growing concern about a spike in wholesale gas prices. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is talking to suppliers to hear how wide-reaching the impact of surging prices could be on companies and households. High […]
M&S to cut 7,000 jobs over next three months
PA Marks & Spencer is cutting 7,000 jobs over the next three months across its stores and management. It said the coronavirus pandemic had made it clear there had been a “material shift in trade”. In-store sales of clothing and home goods were “well below” 2019, although online and home deliveries were strong. M&S said […]
Confessions of a call-centre scammer
Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC News, Delhi BBC This week, the BBC showed scammers at work in an Indian call centre, recorded by an activist who hacked into the company’s security cameras. Staff were seen laughing at their victims in the US and the UK. But who are these scammers, and how do they justify their actions? […]
Waitrose and Lidl top Which? greenest supermarket ranking
Getty Images Waitrose and Lidl have been named the UK’s greenest supermarkets in a ranking of their greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to cut plastic and food waste. The chains topped Which? magazine’s first supermarket sustainability table, which examined data from annual reports and provided by the stores themselves. Which? said it hoped firms would […]
Welsh towns ‘vulnerable’ to virus impact
Sarah Dickins BBC Wales economics correspondent A research group has highlighted Tredegar as one of the ones most likely to suffer An economic downturn from coronavirus will fall “most heavily” on valleys towns and coastal communities in north Wales, according to a research group. The Centre for Towns says places already exposed to economic “shocks” […]
The big election issue that’s not Trump
Ritu Prasad BBC News, Charleston, West Virginia BBC Staff say some patients travel over six hours across the state to receive free treatment at WVHR Healthcare tops most lists of voters’ concerns in the US mid-term elections, but it gets precious little coverage in the national media. At a clinic in West Virginia, patients and […]
Drinkers enjoy final night before pub alcohol ban
Pubs, restaurants and cafes will not be allowed to serve alcohol from 18:00 GMT on Friday Drinkers enjoyed a final evening out as pubs prepare to stop selling alcohol from Friday evening. Pubs, cafes and restaurants will be banned from selling alcohol and ordered to close at 18:00 GMT as the Welsh Government attempts to […]