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Upper Crust owner SSP bites off an extra £175m Covid support SSP has ramped up its Government borrowing to cope with travel restrictions The increase takes SSP borrowing through the programme to its max of £300m By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 10:56 GMT, 7 … Read more
Sweet surprise: NASA Insight lander’s first look inside Mars reveals the Red Planet’s crust resembles a three-layer cake The lander’s seismometer has recorded over 480 marsquakes since April 2019 Differences in how seismic waves move lets scientists evaluate the crust’s size and composition They believe Mars’ crust is about 23 miles thick, far thicker than … Read more
Former high-flying railway station and airport cafe and food operator SSP has unveiled a £1.3billion hit to revenues and confirmed ‘considerable’ job losses as lockdown and a slump in travel wiped out sales. The Upper Crust owner, which also runs travel sites for chains such as M&S Simply Food, Starbucks and Burger King, said nearly … Read more
The Moon has a bonanza of metals like iron and titanium deep below its surface, according to NASA, raising questions over a long held formation theory. The leading theory claims that the Moon formed out of the wreckage created when a Mars-sized planet called Theia collided with the young Earth 4.5 billion years ago. If … Read more
Shares in train station and airport cafe operator SSP came under pressure as it became the latest company to lay off workers because of the plunge in travel. The Upper Crust-owner warned investors it could axe up to 5,000 jobs from its head office and UK outlets as commuters stay home, socialising remains limited and … Read more
Pluto harbours a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust that has been there for 4.5 billion years – 500 million years longer than Earth’s seas – a study has found. Pluto is known today as a ball of frozen ice and rock orbiting the sun at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. But a new … Read more
NASA proposes 2025 mission to Neptune’s mysterious moon Triton which orbits in the OPPOSITE direction to the planet’s rotation and may host an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust The only craft to study Triton up close to date was Voyager 2 back in 1989 Much of the moon’s surface is unmapped and … Read more
Lamb With Pistachio Herb Crust By Jessie And Lennie Ware Published: 00:02 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 1 March 2020 Jessie For me, a rack of lamb is the food of love. My first Valentine’s meal with my now husband was when we were 19. In fact, our first Valentine’s Day fell … Read more
Stage three: Vegetable and lentil pie with a cheesy cauliflower and broccoli crust By Professor Roy Taylor Published: 00:03 GMT, 12 January 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 12 January 2020 Any root vegetable would work in this meatless pie. I have used carrots and parsnips, but butternut squash would be lovely too, as would celeriac … Read more