MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: BT gets the message – must do better

Go to the BT corporate website and the company says it uses ‘the power of communications to make a better world’. The firm’s 20 million-plus customers and 750,000-plus investors may not agree. Customers, including me, have to put up with disjointed call centre service and ineffectual engineers. Investors, again including me, have seen the shares … Read more

Poundland chief gives an upbeat message for the high street

Optimistic: Former Asda boss Andy Bond now runs more than 2,000 discount stores Every week it seems Britain’s high streets edge closer to extinction. Over the past seven days alone, Debenhams has crashed into administration and new figures revealed we have almost 2,500 fewer stores than last year. No wonder speaking to most retail bosses … Read more