News and business in brief

  • Corporate tax avoidance from the likes of Starbucks and Amazon could have cost the country over £4bn (i)

 

  • Britain is on severe flood alert today as torrential downpours threaten half a month’s rain in two hours (Express, Independent)

 

  • Student protests took place in London yesterday but were cut short as the leader of the National Union of Students was booed and pelted with eggs (Express, i, Guardian, Independent)

 

  • Channel 5 has been given the green light to extend its broadcasting license for another 10 years (Express)

 

  • Topshop and Topman chains are proving a bit hit overseas and boss Sir Philip Green has announced plans to open stores in China (Express, Independent)

 

  • Sainsbury’s plans to create 10,000 new jobs over the next three years as it expands its chain of convenience stores (Express, Telegraph)

 

  • Halfords is expanding its cycling product range following Olympics and Tour de France success which has boosted sales (Express, i, Guardian)

 

  • Elderly people living in cold homes is an “absolute scandal” which is costing the NHS £1.36bn per year according to Age UK  (i)

PR at work

  • A study by Cotton USA reveals that men who wear pink shirts earn an extra £1,000 per year (Express, Telegraph, Daily Star, Sun)

 

  • Men cook an average of four meals per week according to a survey by Hotpoint (Express)

 

  • A poll by Ainsley Harriot Cup Soup reveals our top ten biggest frustrations at work with noisy eating coming out on top followed by messy colleagues and not washing up (Express, Telegraph)

 

  • Avoiding public transport this winter will not protect you from flu according to a study from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Telegraph)

 

  • Adele has been voted the top music choice to fall asleep to according to a Travelodge poll (Daily Star)

 

  • One in ten gifts ordered online will not arrive in time for Christmas according to research from Which? (The Sun)

 

  • A website is selling Christmas dinner in a can called ‘Hot can’ (Daily Star, Daily Mail)

 

Picture perfect

 

  • Kate Middleton has released several photographs taken herself during her tour of South-East Asia with Prince William in September. She studied photography as part of her art degree  (Express)

 

  • Gary Barlow and Kate Winslet were among a group to be awarded OBEs and CBEs by The Queen yesterday (Across the board)

 

  • Lindsay Lohan in costume as Elizabeth Taylor, who she’s portraying in a new US TV Show (Express, i)

 

  • A British adventurer has captured stunning photographs of a Glacier cave in Switzerland  (Telegraph, Daily Mail)

 

  • Simultaneous Rubix cube world record attempt at the O2 (Telegraph)

 

  • Incredible 3D scan of baby yawning in the womb – could hold the key to researching the growth of the nervous system (Guardian)

Posted by on November 22nd, 2012