If immigration officers at British ports and airports stage the walkout planned for next Wednesday, thousands of travellers face holiday travel disruptions.
The 24-hour walkout, arising from a dispute over working conditions, is set for Wednesday of next week, and comes after the failure of talks between the Public and Commercial ...
A comScore study has found that a surprising 35 per cent of all online spending by UK shoppers occurs from their work locations.
The results were obtained from a five-month study of UK online etail activity, through the end of May 2009. It was learned that 29.1 million Britons visited an ...
On Tuesday, Malaysia Airlines announced the introduction of a new air pass that offers deep discounts on fares for travel in the Southeast Asia region, in a move that it hopes will help fill its seats and boost the country’s tourism industry.
The national carrier reported losses for the first quarter ...
It has been reported that clothing retailer H&M has launched an investigation into claims that staff in its Cardiff flagship store engaged in sex while on duty.
A number of shocking claims have been made regarding the behaviour of some of store’s employees, including having intimate relations at the Queen Street ...
Sainbsury’s has revealed that it will not distribute the anti-flu medication Tamiflu, out of concern that it would bring people infected with the H1N1 virus into supermarkets.
Some of the retailer’s in-store pharmacies are currently stocking the drug in what is being called an “interim measure”, but the company says that ...
UK supermarket chain ASDA has finally won a ten-year battle and will open its first store in the city known as “Tesco Town”.
Inverness currently has three Tesco stores, with a plan for a fourth store recently approved.
ASDA, at this time, has no stores in the Highlands, and its outlet that ...
British diners are foregoing the use of the knife in favour of eating with a fork on its own, but the department store Debenhams is trying to help revive the long-standing British tradition of knife use.
This is seen as the latest trend resulting from the increased consumption of fast ...
The lone surviving gunman from the terror attacks in Mumbai of November 2008 made a stunning admission to the court, pleading guilty to the charges against him and providing a detailed account of what occurred, including his role in the events that left 166 dead and a city terrified.
Pakistani national ...
Police in Indonesia have said that the perpetrators of the deadly Jakarta hotel attacks used methods and equipment similar to those employed in previous bombings carried out by Jemaah Islamiah.
Investigators are involved in reconstructing the face of one of the bombers in last Friday’s terrorist attacks on the JW Marriott ...
The number of visitors to the UK from overseas fell by 2.7 per cent, to 31.9 million, and the deficit in tourist spending increased to a record high of £20.5 billion last year.
This was the first time in seven years the number of overseas visitors, entering the UK on either ...
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