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Banks under fire for dragging their feet over shared branches while lobbying for a £1.5bn tax cutBy Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 13:25 BST, 26 September 2021 | Updated: 13:25 BST, 26 September 2021

The UK could face a “national shortage” of turkeys in the lead-up to Christmas brought on by a lack of labour following Brexit, the chair of a farming association has said.Kate Martin of the Traditional Farm-fresh Turkey Association (TFTA) said...

There are plenty of people who would love an Oculus Quest 2 if it weren’t for the controversial requirement to link a Facebook account. And for those people, a tweet from Oculus Consulting CTO John Carmack could prove extremely interesting.As...

AS drivers across the UK continue to panic buy petrol, forecourts are being forced to shut while they wait for fuel deliveries. If you need petrol today, this might mean that your usual service station is closed for business and...

Earlier this year, a report from CNET explored the current state of ad blockers. Among the data cited within was a study from the software company Blockthrough, which estimated that 40% of adults in the United States make use of...

Vietnamese craft coffee almost didn't exist in America recently. Now there's a fresh crop of Vietnamese roasters from Philly to Austin to Seattle.       READ SOURCE...

On September 24, 2021, the Fantom Foundation announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that aims to compete with the myriad of NFT markets out there today. The market dubbed Artion is an NFT marketplace built on...

Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would not seek to nationalise the big six energy companies, apparently ditching a leadership campaign pledge to “support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water”.Appearing on BBC One’s Andrew Marr show on...

Scotland's papers: 'Surprise' fall in cases and council car 'scandal'  BBC News READ SOURCE...

A near-default in 2011 had severe consequences: The stock market turned volatile, bond prices rose and the U.S. AAA credit rating was downgraded.       READ SOURCE...

Over the past 70 years the public health establishment in Anglophone countries has issued a number of diet rules, their common thread being that the natural ingredients populations all around the world have eaten for millennia – meat, dairy, eggs...

James Martin/CNET Privacy is now a priority among browser-makers, but they may not go as far as you want in fighting pervasive ad industry trackers on the web. Here's how you can crank up your privacy settings to outsmart that...

Owner of a mine that's produced wedding rings for generations of Royals is splitting off iron ore and graphite operation into separate listed companyBy Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 25 September 2021 | Updated: 09:56 BST,...

Samsung increases workers, factories in Pakistan, Vietnam READ SOURCE...

Lidl’s own-brand have become an unlikely contender for this year’s hottest trainer brand but the supermarket has been left apologising to customers after many pairs were bulk-bought and re-sold online by budding entrepreneurs.Priced at £12.99 and available from the middle...

People cast their votes for Germany's Parliamentary (Bundestag) election at a poll station in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 2021.Abdulhamid Hosbas | Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMillions of Germans are heading to the polls on Sunday in an election that...

A day after Flipkart advanced the dates for The Big Billion Days sale to October 3 following Amazon's announcement of its Great Indian Festival from October 4, Amazon India has also changed the date for its flagship sale event. On...

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. ZHONGGUANCUN FORUM The 2021 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) kicked off on Friday in Beijing. The leaders of relevant countries and heads of...

Thousands of people are stuck in flats they cannot sell or remortgage despite government efforts to persuade banks to drop fire-safety cladding checks on low-rise buildings.The government announced in July that external wall surveys, or EWS1 certificates, which have become...

Restaurant patrons who've grown accustomed during the pandemic to whipping out their phones to access menus using QR codes should understand the implications for their personal data, say privacy and cyber-security experts. That's especially important given some restaurant owners are...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Benjamin Kikanovic and Javier López each scored a goal to give the San Jose Earthquakes a 2-0 victory over LAFC on Saturday night. The Earthquakes (8-9-9) have won two straight and are tied with LAFC (9-11-6)...

The Australian Digital Subscription + 6 Day Paper Delivery billed for the first 12 months at $56 approximately every 4 weeks. Min cost $728. At the end of the initial 12 months, subscription will automatically renew to be billed $72...

Ford then put the ideas together and got the company's Senior Exterior Designer, Nedzad Mujcinovic, to create a concept car. The result was dubbed the Ford Future Generation Concept Car, and you can see it in the photo gallery. According...

MUMBAI: HDFC Bank aims to expand its reach to two lakh villages in the next 18-24 months. The bank plans this expansion through a combination of branch network, business correspondents, business facilitators, CSC partners, virtual relationship management and digital outreach...

Meng, who was wanted by US federal prosecutors for fraud charges related to alleged Iran sanction violations, was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018. Beijing has called it a political arrest by the former Trump administration, and repeatedly demanded she...

CHINA'S STATEMENT The PBOC said it will "resolutely clamp down on virtual currency speculation, and related financial activities and misbehaviour in order to safeguard people's properties and maintain economic, financial and social order". It said that trading of virtual currencies...

Over the past two years, DeFi has perhaps become the most striking event in cryptocurrency reality. The rise of this new star is closely tied to Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency network by market capitalization, on top of which almost every...

Sept. 26, 2021 What are manufacturers doing to improve the esthetics of zirconia restorations? Dr. Gordon Christensen discusses the various types of zirconia and makes suggestions about which materials to use in clinical situations and why. Sign up for Dental...

NEW DELHI: The MSME ministry on Saturday said Coir Board has proposed to take series of measures, such as creating awareness about different schemes of the government and identification of exporters to boost outbound shipments of the products, with an...

Big three iron ore producers look cheap after tough month, Jefferies says READ SOURCE...

OFFENSIVE Treylon Burks, WR, Arkansas: The Razorbacks played one of the best defenses in college football Saturday, and Burks was pretty much impossible to cover. He finished the night with six catches for 167 yards, including a 85-yard catch and...

After spending a few minutes talking about triumphs at the Olympics, buzzy sneaker drops and a headquarters tour with LeBron James, Nike Inc. executives spent much of the rest of their quarterly earnings call addressing something much less glamorous: logistics....

CHINA'S STATEMENT The PBOC said it will "resolutely clamp down on virtual currency speculation, and related financial activities and misbehaviour in order to safeguard people's properties and maintain economic, financial and social order". It said that trading of virtual currencies...

This is the first part of an FT series asking whether Boris Johnson is pursuing reforms that will change the face of Britain. Follow UK politics & policy with myFT to be alerted when new articles are published.It was billed as the...

Tech Q&A: When a Chromebook no longer receives security updates  The Union Leader READ SOURCE...

The days of the gas guzzler may be numbered.Electric cars are moving from the rear-view mirror to the middle of the highway and commanding more attention in the automotive industry.“GM is completely committed to it,” said Champion Chevrolet owner Alex...

Jack Dorsey’s social media platform Twitter has officially enabled third-party bitcoin tipping services for iOS users, giving them the ability to seamlessly pay one another across the globe, nearly instantly.As demonstrated by Lightning Network platform Strike in a recent video,...

SCOTT COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - Dozens of vehicles were on display today at a Scott County school.Scott County Central hosted a craft and car show as part of it’s 6th annual car show fundraiser to raise money for it’s robotics...

Former U.S. treasury secretary and chief economist at the World Bank, Larry Summers, says cryptocurrency will do better regulated in a sound way instead of being treated as a libertarian paradise. Larry Summers Sees Crypto Benefiting From Strong Regulation Lawrence...

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! More than half of companies are planning to move to subscription models in the next 18 months, according to a report from Revenera, but at...

The biggest state intervention in the UK’s labour market in peacetime comes to an end this week when the government finally winds up its furlough support.Barring an unlikely last-minute change of heart, a wage subsidy that has been in place...

In 1969, Don Fisher was having difficulty finding the right size of Levi’s jeans in traditional clothing stores. His solution was quite radical. Together with his wife Doris, he opened his own store, The Gap, selling a large selection of...

Labour Party UK updatesSign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Labour Party UK news. Labour is set to go into the next election seeking to neutralise accusations that its policies are dependent on excessive...

National reaction to Texas’ win over Texas Tech: Why wasn’t Casey Thompson QB1 to start the season?  The Dallas Morning News READ SOURCE...

Sunday lunch means one thing: it’s time for a roast dinner. But if you’ve got high cholesterol or you’d like to reduce your chances of developing it, there are some simple swaps and tips you can follow to keep your...

Some 10,500 foreign lorry drivers and poultry workers will be able to work in the UK until Christmas Eve. READ SOURCE...

The government’s emergency programme to issue temporary visas to thousands of lorry drivers is far too little to resolve Britain’s supply-chain crisis and is unlikely to attract them to the UK, haulage chiefs have warned.Downing Street on Saturday night confirmed...

Kids nowadays spend hours on YouTube, which may not always be good. To restrict this, you can block YouTube on their iPhone and iPad. Once that's done, your child cannot access it via the app or browser. We'll show you...

A nasty dry cough, sniffles and a thumping headache. Burning muscle pain. And, if you didn’t feel miserable enough, everything you eat tastes like dust. It’s a list of symptoms the British public have become all too familiar with over...

A music company paid $74,000 for the non-fungible token (NFT) of the Side Eyeing Chloe meme, which shows a two-year-old girl. 3F Music, a Dubai-based music production firm, purchased it.  In 2013, a young girl became famous after a meme...