We were sad to learn of the immediate closure of the Oldham Chronicle. The publication has been part of the town for more than a century and a half and was one of the North West’s oldest newspapers which had faithfully reported local news since it was established in 1854. The final edition was printed…
Airbnb have revealed plans to crack the Asian market. Nathan Blecharczyk, a co-founder and the firm’s chief strategy officer, says it’s firmly focused on expanding in Asia-Pacific. The region has roughly 60% of the world’s millennials i.e. young adults between the ages of 19 and 35 who are the fastest growing generation of consumers. However,…
Peter Smythe, a 74 year old pensioner, appeared in court accused of leaving his neighbour Nigel Clark with a fractured nose and eye socket after hitting him with a leaf blower outside their homes during a dispute over a boundary ditch. Clark told the court he and his wife, Hervor, were hoping to buy Peter…
Online retail giant Amazon is to open a new warehouse near Bristol in 2018 which it says will create 1,000 jobs adding to its 13 sites in the UK. Other new warehouses are set to open in Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury this autumn. The firm’s UK workforce will total 24,000 by the end of 2017.…
The Co-operative Bank has said it lost about 25,000 current accounts during the first 6 months of the year following the uncertainty over its future. Furthermore, £400m of instant access savings cash was withdrawn in a period that saw the bank being put up for sale before a rescue deal was agreed. In June 2017…
Guardians of the Galaxy actor Chris Pratt and his wife, actress Anna Faris have announced that they are “legally separating” after eight years of marriage. The Hollywood stars met in 2007 on the set of Take Me Home Tonight and have one son, Jack 4, together. They’ve vowed to keep the divorce as amicable as possible,…
Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch and owner of Chelsea FC, announced that he has separated from his third wife, Dasha Zhukova. The couple, who have two children, insisted the split was amicable but they could be embroiled in the world’s costliest divorce if forced to untangle the tycoon’s £7 billion fortune. Abramovich owns Chelsea football…
New figures released by the Ministry of Justice show that in April to June 2017 mortgage possession proceedings increased by 17% on the same period in 2016 to 5,186. This is still considerably short of the peak during the financial crisis from April to June 2009, when claims reached 26,419 over the three-month period. Since the…
From 7 August 2017 new court proceedings came into force meaning anyone entering court, including solicitors and barristers, are now being asked to sip the drinks they are carrying to prove they are not filled with harmful substances or alcohol. The rules will apply to all ‘customers’ who enter the building with an unsealed ‘drink…
The Government has confirmed details for a new pilot scheme to extend court opening times across England and Wales. Six courts have been selected for the trial, including Manchester, adding either an early or a late slot. The early session running from 8am to 10.45am and the later one from 4.30pm to 7pm. The trial…