Spain could become one of the first countries in the world to trial the four-day working week after the government agreed to launch a modest pilot project for companies interested in the idea. Earlier this year, the small leftwing Spanish party Más País announced that the government had accepted its proposal to test out the…
A new £3bn transport strategy will lead to the creation of hundreds of miles of new bus lanes, fares with daily price caps and more evening and weekend services, according to the government. The prime minister is unveiling a shake-up of the bus sector and planning lower, simpler flat fares in towns and cities, turn-up-and-go…
BT is facing the threat of its first national strike since 1987 as a row about planned job cuts and site closures intensifies. The Communication Workers Union, which represents 45,000 BT Group staff, will hold the ballot in the coming weeks and said that a yes vote would have a “massive impact” on the network….
You’ve already got a monthly Netflix subscription, and maybe a veg box delivery service. So why wouldn’t you start leasing an electric car on the same month-to-month terms? Hot on the heels of bicycle and other monthly subscription services, drivers can now get electric cars on a renewable monthly basis, with everything included – even…
A family has been left facing a bill of more than £250,000 after floors collapsed during a loft extension and their builder’s insurer refused to pay out. James Hobby, a secondary school teacher, saw his adult son injured and his family left homeless when their home in Windsor fell down eight weeks into the £38,000…
We haven’t just been doomscrolling, homeschooling and working through our screens these past 12 months. We have also been shopping. Online shopping has rocketed: UK sales were up 61.4% in December compared with the same time last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. Last month, when Asos and Boohoo bought high street stalwarts…
