Parents criticize HMRC after delay in child benefit payment

Are you affected by the delay? Email arthur.parashar@mailonline.co.uk Furious parents say they are unable to put food on the table after a glitch at HMRC meant some child benefit payments did not arrive as scheduled on Monday. HMRC has apologized after around 30 per cent of child benefit payments scheduled for June 3 have not … Read more

‘Africa has zero PR in the west’: Nigerian influencer using sarcasm for the uninitiated

When Charity Ekezie first joined TikTok and started posting videos from her home in Abuja, Nigeria in 2020, she had just quit a job at a radio station and thought it might be a good way to keep busy and to not allow her journalistic skills to decline. . Within a few months, she began … Read more

Standard Chartered: UK bank accused of helping to finance terrorists – BBC News

Image title, Standard Chartered Bank has its headquarters in the city of London Item information the author, Andy Verity role, Economy Correspondent 3 hours ago A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars in transactions for terrorist financiers, US court documents allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s biggest … Read more

Can ‘energy hog’ hot tubs get greener? – BBC News

image source, Getty Images Image title, Many holiday parks make hot tubs a standard feature Item information the author, Christine Ro role, Technology Reporter 6 hours ago Some people give Severin Borenstein a hard time about having a hot tub. “In general, the criticism of having a hot tub is that it’s a waste of … Read more

Women in England and Wales reject ‘exciting’ drug that could stop breast cancer from spreading

Thousands of women with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales are being denied a drug that cuts the risk of the disease spreading by more than a third. Enhertu has been approved for HER2-low breast cancer patients in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has rejected … Read more

Rupert Murdoch marries Jewish scientist Elena Zhukova

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time, to a Jewish molecular biologist named Elena Zhukova. Murdoch, 93, who is not Jewish, married Zhukova, 67, who is the former mother-in-law of Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich. The pair married on Saturday in a ceremony at Murdoch’s summer estate in Bel Air, California. His media … Read more

Why fast fashion giant Shein eyes potential London Stock Exchange float

Chinese fast fashion giant Shein appears to be moving to London, rather than New York, for its planned stock market listing. On the face of it, this would be a big fillip for London, especially given last year’s soul-searching over its attractiveness after a group of big UK and Irish companies. moved their primary listing … Read more

Why fast fashion giant Shein eyes potential London Stock Exchange float

Chinese fast fashion giant Shein appears to be moving to London, rather than New York, for its planned stock market listing. On the face of it, this would be a big fillip for London, especially given last year’s soul-searching over its attractiveness after a group of big UK and Irish companies. moved their primary listing … Read more

Santander cyber hack puts 30 million bank accounts at risk of being sold on the dark web

Dark Web Informer says millions of customer details are up for sale Millions of bank account details could be at risk of being sold to online criminals after Santander became the target of a cyber attack by hacker group ShinyHunters. Last month’s hack, which preceded a similar attack on Ticketmaster, has led to the compromise … Read more

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