Author: Nathan Bissitt

Shares in floor coverings specialist Carpetright have plunged 40% after it warned that full-year profits would be much less than expected.It blamed the profit alert on a “sharp deterioration” in UK trade, with sales in the key post-Christmas period

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Coca-Cola has announced a pledge to recycle a used bottle or can for every one the company sells by 2030.Calling it a “massive global ambition” the firm admitted its part in littering the environment and a responsibility to tackle the problem.The company,

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Net firms are getting better at removing illegal hate speech, according to the European Union.Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft all took place in a voluntary EU scheme to monitor their platforms for a six-week period at the end of 2017.On average they removed

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UK retail sales fell by 1.5% in December compared with November, the biggest monthly fall since the EU referendum, official figures show.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said many shoppers had shifted spending to November to take advantage of Black Friday

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Following Zambia’s cholera outbreak last year, the government has moved to clear street markets in a bid to curb the spread of the disease. But many street traders say their livelihoods are suffering and have been protesting at the authorities’ actions.

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Asda and Aldi are to ban the sale of energy drinks to children under 16 from early March. The move comes after Waitrose announced that customers buying drinks after 5 March could be asked to show ID.Asda has become the first of the “big four” supermarkets

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Reports Port Talbot steelworkers have been given poor pensions advice are being looked into by police.Tata Steel employees have claimed they have been mis-sold advice about moving from the British Steel Pension Scheme after it was removed from the business.The

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