JD Wetherspoon saw its shares tumble by 10 per cent after posting lower-than-expected first-half profits, despite solid sales growth across its pub estate. The pub group blamed higher labour and utility costs for the dip in performance, sparking investor concern and a sharp sell-off. Shares in the company dropped 62p to 535p as operating profits fell to £64.8 million in the six months to January 26, down from £67.7 million a year earlier. Analysts had...
The BBC, ITV, BT and IMG have been fined a combined £4.2 million after admitting to colluding on pay rates for freelance sports broadcasting staff, following a major investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA found that the four companies had shared confidential information to coordinate how much they paid freelancers such as camera operators and sound technicians—undermining fair competition in the labour market. Sky, which was also involved in the illegal...
The UK is on course to deliver full-fibre broadband to nearly every household by 2027, according to Ofcom, marking a major milestone in Britain’s digital infrastructure ambitions. In its latest telecoms access review, which will shape broadband regulation from 2026 through to 2031, the communications regulator said that 96% of homes and businesses could be connected to high-speed fibre within the next two years—up from 69% today. Ofcom said it would focus on “clarity and...
Hostage envoy Adam Boehler met in person with Taliban officials at the Kabul International Airport, Qatari sources told Fox News Digital, marking the first known time the White House has engaged with Afghanistan’s ‘interim government’ following the 2021 takeover by the terrorist organization. While the meeting between Boehler and Afghan officials representing the Taliban’s foreign ministry met to secure the release of George Glezmann on Thursday, advisor and spokesman to Qatar’s prime minister, Dr Majed al-Ansari, told...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., declared that U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines should be yanked, asserting that the jabs ‘are causing permanent harm and deaths.’ ‘FDA approval for COVID-19 vaccines needs to be pulled and they need taken off the childhood vaccine schedule ASAP,’ she said Thursday in a post on X. ‘I’ve been saying this ever since they were created and my personal Twitter account was permanently banned for my...
TEMPE, Ariz. – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – champions of the left – repeatedly targeted President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk as they kicked off a three-day swing through three electorally important western states. But Sanders, and especially Ocasio-Cortez, also trained some of their fire on the Democratic Party, with the best-known member of the so-called ‘Squad’ of diverse and progressive House members urging...
Public sector borrowing has surged past official expectations by more than £20 billion so far this financial year, piling pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of next week’s Spring Statement. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in February alone, the government borrowed £10.7 billion—making it the fourth-highest total for that month since records began in 1993 and higher than economists had predicted. This brings total public borrowing between April 2024 and...
President Donald Trump sent a warning late Thursday night to those who have been involved in recent attacks on Tesla vehicles, dealerships and factories nationwide since CEO Elon Musk became a part of the Trump administration. ‘People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders,’ the president wrote on Truth Social. ‘WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!’ Musk has...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Over the last four years at the United Nations, the international community has witnessed an alarming trend of closer collaboration between Russia and China that poses a significant threat to the ‘rules-based order’ the United States helped design back in 1945. This increased and renewed level of cooperation presents an unprecedented dilemma for the United States and like-minded partners: how to maintain the existing order, warts...
A liberal Canadian member of Parliament claimed the Trump administration has committed an ‘act of war’ over President Donald Trump repeatedly referring to Canada as the U.S.’ ’51st state’ and for leveling tariffs on the nation. ‘Well, I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school because when you say that someone doesn’t have a right to have a country, that’s an act of war. When you rip up, arbitrarily, trade agreements...
