FirstGroup looks into selling US assets following shareholder pressure

Under-fire FirstGroup looks into selling off US assets following pressure from shareholders By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 22:54 BST, 16 December 2019 US operations: First Group already has plans in place to offload the Greyhound coach business (pictured)  First Group has announced the appointment of … Read more

Energy provider iSupply hit with £1.5m fine for overcharging customers

Energy provider iSupply hit with £1.5m fine after it overcharging thousands of customers By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 16 December 2019 iSupply Energy overcharged around 4,400 of its customers under the new price cap Energy provider iSupply will pay £1.5million after it overcharged thousands … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Boris must protect Britain’s intellectual property

Among the big undeclared losers from overseas takeovers are Britain’s taxpayers. The nation’s research universities, supported by public funds, are the source of dozens of commercial spin-offs, the result of work done in labs and research institutes. When the companies fall into overseas hands, the UK corporate tax base is eroded and the patents and … Read more

Government set to borrow £100bn more than expected over next five years

Economy ground to halt ahead of election: Government set to borrow £100bn more than expected over next five years By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 Political uncertainty ahead of the General Election has left the economy facing its worst month for … Read more

Airline food of 2019 ranked and it’s Air Canada and Alaska on top and Southwest bottom

Air Canada, 4.0 stars, average calories 347 According to Dr Platkin, Air Canada offers several mini-meals that are ‘much better than a traditional snack, and are low in calories with great nutrient content’. He also notes that Air Canada’s main meals are ‘relatively healthy and available for trips that are more than two hours long’. … Read more

From that bridge to Chinatown and even Alcatraz – San Francisco is a collection of vibrant villages

Perched on the Pacific, San Francisco is a gold-rush town that’s now pulsating with tech start-ups, and dominated by the Golden Gate Bridge.  Get in closer, though, and the city becomes a series of villages, all with their own identity; from hippy Haight-Ashbury and the cool Mission District to the old money of Nob Hill, … Read more