Uk Business Energy News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Energy suppliers are threatening to shut down the UK’s only consumer helpline dedicated to tackling fuel poverty. In the Budget, Chancellor Alistair Darling ordered companies to triple spending on subsidised ’social tariffs’ for their poorest customers to £150m. But now suppliers are lobbying the regulator Ofgem to allow them to use some funds to keep [...]
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
London, May 9 (PTI): Upset with Chancellor Alistair Darling for raising the price of beer in the budget, pub owners in Cumbria, northwest England, have banned him from entering their outlets.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Upset with Chancellor Alistair Darling for raising the price of beer in the budget, pub owners in a north-west town England have banned him from entering their outlets.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
There is now an overwhelming case for Alistair Darling to introduce a mini-Budget to restore consumer confidence and revitalise a somnolent economy.
Civitas Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In a head-to-head debate in the British Medical Journal , we argue that instead of backing away from the reality that supplementing of NHS care with private treatment is already widespread – and will become even more so as the finite budget of the NHS becomes less able to cover the medical care that people want or require – the government should instead work towards creating an equitable...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - British budget airline easyJet said rising fuel costs sent first-half losses up threefold to 57.5 million pounds ($112.9 million), but that summer bookings were ahead of last year.
TechDigest (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
A recipe for you: Take one of the most successful game franchises of all time, give its developers the budget of small South American country, apply enough hype to sink a blue whale, allow to simmer gently for 6 months until public desire reaches a raging fervour, and serve. There you have your very own Best Selling Game Ever™. Yes, it is with very little shock at all that GTA IV has wreaked...
Nobody's Business (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
But he still wants lots of extra cash in his budget — so that one day, all the technology could actually work.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
In April, British Airways said it would move more than 100 sales staff into Honda Civic hybrid cars. The announcement came seven weeks after a UK Budget that included...
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
More than one million drivers could see their annual road tax bill double after changes were introduced in Alistair Darling’s first Budget last March. According to new figures, the rise is largely due to an unannounced change in the rules that means an estimated 1.2million drivers of cars bought before 2006 can be charged at the [...]
Trabber News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
British travellers already thinking twice about flying to Europe this summer as the falling value of the pound cuts into their travel budget received more bad news yesterday with indications that the era of cheap flights may be drawing to an end. Soaring fuel costs have put airlines under financial pressure which, analysts say, will inevitably [...]
projector screen (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
The independent British production company Celador Films is reuniting with French-owned and U.K.-based Pathe on a sequel to Neil Marshall's low-budget SF horror hit The Descent, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
U.K. indie production company Celador Films is reuniting with French-owned and U.K.-based Pathe on a sequel to low-budget box office hit The Descent , says The Hollywood Reporter .
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
U.K. indie production company Celador Films is reuniting with French-owned and U.K.-based Pathe on a sequel to low-budget box office hit The Descent , says The Hollywood Reporter .
