SOME stranded passengers were left with little option but to curl up and sleep on the terminal floor until flight updates became available. “I was to catch a flight to Pisa from Stansted. I don’t know what I am going to do now — I hope that I can get a flight tomorrow,” Italian holidaymaker [...]
Archive for April 16th, 2010
16 Apr
Uniq delivers different deficit idea
Uniq, the biggest supplier of sandwiches to Marks and Spencer, is to seek clearance from the UK Pensions Regulator to use a novel approach to close a deficit in its retirement scheme, which dwarfs the size of the company and could take 50 years to resolve. The maker of chilled foods, which changed its name [...]
16 Apr
Asda aims to take Tesco’s non-food crown by 2015
The Wal-Mart-owned retailer also plans to overtake J Sainsbury as the UK’s second-biggest food retailer over the next five years. The aggressive plans came as Andy Bond, Asda’s outgoing chief executive, admitted that the retailer is not satisfied with its current sales. Over the four weeks to March 21, Asda grew sales by 2.7pc, compared [...]
16 Apr
Television debate: Brown, Cameron and Clegg clash, but politely
The leaders of Britain’s three main parties kept their nerve last night as they clashed politely on a series of subjects, ranging from immigration to the cost of a £73,000 Lexus police car, in the first television debate of the general election campaign. The odd joke peppered their exchanges as Gordon Brown thanked David Cameron [...]
16 Apr
Iceland’s airports dust down nicely
We used anti-terrorism legislation to freeze their assets they used a volcano to freeze our airspace (no doubt the volcanic dust was the wrong kind of dust etc…) Let’s hope that evens things up and there are no more surprises in waiting.
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