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How can Spotify give Meghan and Harry millions when it pays singers £200? Sandie Shaw blasts streaming service for handing out a fortune to former royals for podcast while paying only small amount in royalties to musicians By Gregory Kirby For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 16 December 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 16 … Read more
Online furniture store Made handing out share bonuses worth more than £10,000 to each of its staff thanks to booming sales in pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:24 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 22:43 GMT, 14 December 2020 Online furniture store Made is handing out share bonuses worth more than … Read more
‘Race bias’ of judges in gun crime cases: Criminals’ ethnicity must be taken into account when handing down sentences, experts say Research revealed that white criminals have been given lesser penalties The new instructions will come into force at the start of next month It’d be the first time race will be a factor in … Read more
‘It wasn’t blackmail’: Alan Yentob denies strong-arming ministers into handing over millions in taxpayers’ money to doomed Kids Company charity Former BBC Creative Director Alan Yentob is among senior employees battling accusations over their role in the financial meltdown of Kids Company charity The charity’s founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh is also part of the High Court … Read more
Police are handing out more Covid fines amid tighter lockdown rules – despite the fact that up to 60% of penalties go unpaid Police gave out 1,137 fixed penalty notices between November 6-12, up from 947 Number of Covid fines peaked in April and May, before rising again in October But more than 60 per cent … Read more
‘Devolution was a big mistake’: Boris Johnson says handing more powers to Scotland was a ‘disaster’ Devolution has been a ‘disaster’ and biggest mistake made by Tony Blair, PM said The Prime Minister made the controversial comments in a Zoom call with MPs Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon immediately seized on the comments By Michael Blackley … Read more
Now home buyers need to stump up 40 per cent deposits to get a mortgage as economic devastation from coronavirus threatens a new credit crunch TSB has withdrawn two-year mortgage deals with less than 40 per cent deposits Barclays has ended mortgages for borrowers with less than a 25 per cent deposit A Bank of … Read more
Councils issued record numbers of ‘petty’ anti-social behaviour orders last year targeting messy gardens, sitting on the pavement and even feeding stray cats, according to a campaign group. ‘Overuse of the blank cheque powers’ under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 has led to legal restrictions on the public in England and Wales … Read more
A former butler at Buckingham Palace has landed two job interviews after donning his best suit to hand out CVs at a railway station. Trevor Walford, 63, lost his job as a restaurant manager in Keighley, West Yorkshire, during lockdown. After spending months at home being knocked-back for jobs, the former hotel worker took his … Read more
German researchers will give a group of people £1,080 per month as part of an experiment to see whether universal basic income could work. The study will see 120 people handed the cash with no means testing or limits on how it is spent, then monitored to see how their attitudes and behaviours change. Another … Read more