Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s travel email This week a major German travel company, FTI Touristik, collapsed. It was the third largest tour operator in Europe. The company is telling passengers: “All travel arrangements booked through FTI Touristik GmbH with a departure date … Read more
BRITISH people are once again being forced to pay for their holidays and are even being banned from hotel rooms due to the collapse of a major tour operator. Earlier this week, tour operator FTI – one of the largest in Europe – went bankrupt, despite a recent investment of €125 million. British holidaymakers are … Read more
The EU’s direction will be determined over the next four days, when 370 million voters across the bloc cast their ballots in European Parliament elections. Top jobs, including Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second five-year term at the helm of the European Commission, will be affected by the outcome of the election. Although … Read more
The five biggest banks pay an average of just 1.69% on £10,000 of easy access loans This remains no less than 1.43% behind the rest of the market average Despite new rules requiring them to offer savers ‘fair value’ Britain’s five biggest banks are still failing to offer competitive savings rates despite the Financial Conduct … Read more
Neighbors who have been plagued by skip bins for almost two months say their road has turned into a ‘slum’ due to the amount of rubbish not collected. Some homeowners in Longbridge, Willesborough Lees, in Ashford, have even taken to spraying the festering rubbish with disinfectant every day. David Cossey, from Willesborough Lees, Ashford, now … Read more
A popular view of generative AI is that it is unjustifiably expensive, chronically wasteful, rarely useful, and forced on the general public for ideological reasons even as it makes the services they depend on worse. Governments will certainly have to deal with it. This is what Barclays says: The first wave of AI is in … Read more
A hacker who was ordered to pay Nintendo 25 to 30 percent of his salary for the rest of his life has said that getting caught was actually a “blessing.” It was March 2023 when Gary Bowser – yes, just like the Mario character – was released from prison for the role he played in … Read more
Tesla investors are lobbying to shoot down the largest moonshot compensation plan in history. A group including New York City pension funds filed a notice Monday urging others to vote against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $46 billion stock option package at the company’s June 13 shareholder meeting. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who serves … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Dearbail Jordan Role, Business reporter, BBC News May 17, 2024, 10:15am BST Updated 4 hours ago The Severn Trent boss has defended her multi-million pound pay package despite the company’s sewage leaks rising by a third by 2023. Liv Garfield received £3.2million in salary, bonuses and shares last … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Dearbail Jordan Role, Business reporter, BBC News May 17, 2024, 10:15am BST Updated 8 minutes ago The Severn Trent boss has defended her multi-million pound pay package despite the company’s sewage leaks rising by a third by 2023. Liv Garfield received £3.2million in salary, bonuses and shares last … Read more