Company cars could be a perk of the past, if government plans to increase taxation for employees awarded them are implemented.
Employees paying tax at 40% could face a tax bill of more than £5,000 over the three year company car contract. More than 300,000 employees could be adversely affected.
HMRC are concerned that the company car is being used by employers to pay less salary, depriving the Treasury of tax revenue.
Childhood obesity is being fuelled by TV advertising of sugary breakfast cereals, a study by researchers at Dartmouth University in the US has found.
Children watching 20 TV advertisements a week consumed 30% more sugary cereals, which commonly contain one third sugar, than those who didn’t watch any.
Childhood obesity is being fuelled by TV advertising of sugary breakfast cereals, a study by researchers at Dartmouth University in the US has found.
Children watching 20 TV advertisements a week consumed 30% more sugary cereals, which commonly contain one third sugar, than those who didn’t watch any.
An ad that exploited some women’s insecurities about their figures has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
The ad, from weight loss firm Diet Chef showed a woman looking at her slimmer self two months after starting on the plan and asking “Why did we wait so long”.
The ASA agreed that the ad implied that slimness and beauty were essential to happiness.
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The current low value of sterling against the euro and the dollar has opened up some interesting business opportunities, for those who can take them.
It means that anyone buying in euros is finding UK goods and services more than 20% cheaper, and those with dollars to spend are finding our prices more than 30% cheaper. Continue reading
Those whose train journeys are made worse by strike action, delays and cancellations can now claim back 25% of their single ticket price if their train is 15-29 minutes late.
This extends the Delay Repay scheme run by Govia Thameslink Railway – which includes the troubled Southern operator – and will be extended to the rest of the network. At present compensation of 50% of the single ticket price or 25% of the return ticket price is paid back for delays of 30 minutes to 59 minutes, with 100% of the single ticket price being paid back for delays of 1 hour or more, 50% of the return ticket price being paid back for delays of 60 minutes to 119 minutes and 100% of the return ticket price being paid back for delays of 120 minutes or more. Continue reading
You’d think the restaurant at the 30-bedroom boutique Sanctum Soho Hotel, near Carnaby Street was a great choice for some private dining, given its positive review in Square Meal magazine, and its inclusion in the Square Meal list of the 30 Best Private Dining Rooms.
According to Square Meal the tasty offerings found at this “all about rock and roll” themed venue include pots of mussels with pints of beer, BBQ ribs, salt beef hash, shredded duck salad and home-made profiteroles with warm chocolate sauce. (yummy) Continue reading
The Red Hot World Buffet restaurant in the Liverpool One shopping centre has closed after inspectors discovered live mice caught in sticky traps and mouse droppings in areas where food was prepared.
The company behind the popular restaurant, Passepartouts, admitted 10 breaches of Health and Safety regulations and were fined £14,000 and £7,816 costs at Liverpool Magistrates Court. The company has since gone into administration.
Meanwhile management at the highly-regarded Shajan Indian restaurant in Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire are suing a diner who ate at the restaurant with a group of seven others, inserted a dead shrew into a vegetable curry served to him and then posted a complaint, with a photograph of the dead rodent, on Facebook, claiming it was a dead mouse.
Hygiene inspectors were called in and they confirmed that the dead shrew had been killed in a mousetrap been placed in the dish and had not been cooked with it. Inspectors also found no evidence of rodent activity at the restaurant.
It is not known yet whether the complainant or any of the group he was with has any familial or commercial links with competitors of Shajan, as is so often the case on social media.