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EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s highest paid university boss who was found guilty of bullying in a secret investigation will stand down from £554k role when her contract expires Prof Alice Gast was found to have bullied a colleague at Imperial College London Under pressure from students she apologised for behaviour but refused to quit Staff have criticised … Read more
Ministers have yet to secure a single hotel room for use in a new enforced quarantine plan that is due to come into force in just a week’s time, it was revealed today. A new scheme forcing all UK arrivals to self-isolate at Government-designated accommodation for a fortnight is due to come into effect next … Read more
Chris Yates was sounding bullish. Boastful, even. The chief executive of the medical diagnostic firm Abingdon Health was telling his audience that after a ‘roller-coaster 12 months’, it had been ‘a real positive for us to be able to mitigate the effects of the pandemic’. His workforce, he revealed proudly, had quadrupled to 200 but … Read more
Should I have known better? Yes. But after several tries at cancelling my EE account, I went for the nuclear option. I logged into my bank account and stopped my £32 monthly direct debit. My dongle – a small device that provides wifi connection and allows me to file stories from remote locations – had … Read more
NASA awards Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and its 301-foot tall New Glenn rocket contract for future space missions starting in 2025 NASA has named Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket a potential mission provider The Jeff Bezos-owned firm will have the opportunity to take contracts This includes sending satellites into orbit or launching supplies to the … Read more
I received a brand new mobile phone from Sky Mobile on 28 October which was stolen from my home in a burglary the next morning. I phoned Sky within two hours of the burglary to report the phone stolen and the agent who I spoke to immediately blocked it, making it an expensive paperweight. My … Read more
Publisher cancels Julie Burchill’s book contract after ‘Islamophobic’ Twitter row when she accused Muslim journalist of ‘worshipping a paedophile’ Julie Burchill, 61, accused journalist Ash Sarkar of ‘worshipping a paedophile’ Burchill was accused of Islamophobia and has lost her book contract over row Row started after Burchill leapt to defence of Rod Liddle after Sarkar’s … Read more
Lewis Hamilton wants his new contract with Mercedes ‘tied up by Christmas’ as he holds out for huge £40m-a-year deal and insists he has ‘more to achieve in and outside the sport’ after winning his seventh world title Talks between Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes stopped after he caught Covid-19 Hamilton broke Michael Schumacher’s record for … Read more
Dr Emma Stanton has been appointed as a vice president at Oxford Nanopore after leaving director role with NHS Test and Trace A director of the Government’s Test and Trace programme has quit her job and joined a private testing firm recently handed a £113million government contract. Emma Stanton was Director for Supplies and Innovation as … Read more
Domestic abuse charities and campaigners have slammed Dior today as it continues to stick by Johnny Depp after he lost his ‘wife beater’ libel trial. The American actor is the face of Sauvage aftershave, with adverts appearing in newspapers and on TV – with one even airing during this year’s Bake Off final on Channel 4. … Read more