[unable to retrieve full-text content] Supermarket offers and easing world prices for commodities such as wheat and sugar bringing down food cost There was some good(ish) news for hard-pressed consumers on Tuesday as figures pointed to a slowdown in the march of food prices. Higher food and fuel prices are making us all feel poorer, ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Mobile phone company looks to regain market share lost to Apple BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Tuesday that it had hired two new senior executives, including a marketing chief, as the company looks to regain market share lost to Apple’s iPhone. RIM said Frank Boulben will be the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The arrival of a pragmatic pro-European socialist could be the last chance to save the euro and the European project It was not as if there were wild celebrations in France on Sunday night – certainly nothing to match the euphoria that accompanied François Mitterrand’s election in 1981. But a ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Possibility of repeat elections after Antonis Samaras, leader of the New Democracy party, fails to form a government Attempts to form a new government in Athens have collapsed after the leader of the centre-right New Democracy party announced that he was unable to form a coalition in the crisis-hit country. ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Schleswig-Holstein result caps a miserable night for Angela Merkel in her country as well as Europe Angela Merkel’s coalition of Christian Democrats and liberal Free Democrats lost a state election in northern Germany on Sunday, a week ahead of a much bigger regional ballot further west. The election, in the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Parties that passed unpopular belt-tightening measures punished by electorate at ballot box A pivotal poll in Greece looked set to send tremors across the eurozone on Sunday as voters elected to overturn the country’s political landscape with a massive protest vote against EU-dictated austerity. Parties that had participated in an ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Leftist group could be the second biggest party as Greek voters rally to resist the terms of financial bailout Standing on the podium in his trademark open-neck shirt and dark suit, Alexis Tsipras clenched his fist and bellowed at the crowd. “For two years they have taken decisions without asking ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Forecasters predict snow and downpours in the coldest start to May in 70 years with grim effect on consumer spending It was not meant to be like this. A bank holiday weekend with the mere hint of sun sees streams of motorists queuing to enter the Kentish harbour town of ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Customers are increasingly being refused a refund after their bank card was stolen or accounts hacked If a current account is hacked and fraudsters start making purchases and cash withdrawals using the card and pin – intercepted by the crooks – most customers would expect the bank to repay the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Account holders concerned as NAB announces shrinking of UK businesses to focus on Scotland and north, with loss of 1,400 jobs If you are a customer of Yorkshire Bank or Clydesdale Bank and live south of Sheffield, you’ve got every reason to feel fed-up after the company that owns them pulled ...
