11 h. ago Car wash boss whose firm employed illegal workers banned from director roles

Ali Ahmadi, the former boss of Superhand Car Wash Express in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, was banned from acting as a director for five years after failing to pay a £90,000 penalty.

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4 d. ago Wales striker Kieffer Moore eyeing sporting director role after retirement

The Wrexham forward is set to line up against Belgium in World Cup qualifying action on Monday.

Events

5 d. ago JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters

Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntaryJP Morgan Chase has told staff moving into its new headquarters in New York that they must share their biometric data to access the multibillion-dollar building.The investment bank had previously planned for the registering of biometric data by employees at its new Manhattan skyscraper to be voluntary. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago How Tommy Robinson pays Muslim sweatshop workers in Bangladesh to make 'patriotic' British polo shirts

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Robinson paid foreign Muslim sweatshop workers to make 'patriotic' T-shirts for anti-Muslim Unite The Kingdom march, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Economics

1 week ago Meghan Markle fans make observation about outfit as she steps out at Paris Fashion Week

In her first ever appearance at Paris Fashion Week, Megan Markle attended a Balenciaga show, reportedly in support of Pierpaolo Piccioli, who recently assumed the role of Creative Director for the House

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1 week ago Lutz Pfannenstiel in Aberdeen for director of football talks as Dons up ante amid Bundesliga interest

The 52-year-old is also in discussions with Borussia Monchengladbach over a sporting director role

Sport

1 week ago Gaza aid flotilla: Israel intercepts vessels but one ship reported to have got through blockade – live

One boat, the Mikeno, reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial watersGaza flotilla interception: what we know so farReport: Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 120km from GazaReaction: interception triggers protests, diplomatic expulsions and calls for strikesAmnesty International UK called on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to denounce Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.“Reports that Israeli forces have intercepted the Gaza flotilla marks yet another shameful chapter in the brutal and merciless enforcement of Israel’s illegal and immoral 18-year blockade of Gaza and is an attack on international law and basic humanity,” said Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International UK’s director of communications. “Keir Starmer has a serious role to play. With British citizens and British-flagged ships involved, he must not revert to silence as usual.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gaza aid flotilla: more than a dozen vessels intercepted by Israeli forces; Greta Thunberg arrested – live

Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territoryIsraeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from GazaAmnesty International UK called on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to denounce Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.“Reports that Israeli forces have intercepted the Gaza flotilla marks yet another shameful chapter in the brutal and merciless enforcement of Israel’s illegal and immoral 18-year blockade of Gaza and is an attack on international law and basic humanity,” said Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International UK’s director of communications. “Keir Starmer has a serious role to play. With British citizens and British-flagged ships involved, he must not revert to silence as usual.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Southport killer sold machete by firm whose boss was cautioned over blades

Joseph Wheeler was free to head the company - which sold weapons used in at least two other murders - despite a police warning for marketing knives as 'suitable for combat'

Events

2 w. ago Scots wedding firm boss ordered to pay back council after being caught dumping rubbish

Abdul Zafar, who owns VIP Functions – a wedding decor company – was caught using his work van to dump waste on land owned by the local authority in July 2023.

Economics

2 w. ago Wedding firm boss ordered to cough up compensation for dumping rubbish

The waste was discovered on land owned by East Renfrewshire Council and cost hundreds of pounds to clear up.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him

He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebookFor much of his career, Dwayne Johnson has been stuck between the Rock and a hard place. In the early years of his transition from body-slamming World Wrestling Entertainment heavy to marquee movie star, he was still being billed under his nom de ring. Even once he retired that moniker, he seemed to be lugging behind him a persona from which he might never be free. There are people-pleasers and then there is this affable brawler-turned-actor, who appears to regard the contentment of the world’s multiplex-goers as his personal responsibility. Whether in vehicles comic (Central Intelligence, Baywatch), family-oriented (Jumanji, Jungle Cruise), four-wheeled (the Fast & Furious series) or disaster-based (San Andreas, Skyscraper), he is a rip-roaring razzle-dazzler, shiny of scalp and tooth, and so co...

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2 w. ago ‘You don’t f*** with ICE’: LA car wash owner, 79, sues for $50 million claiming he was body slammed during immigration raid

Immigration officials claim car wash owner Rafie Ollah Shouhed impeded officers

Economics

2 w. ago Coffee van with ‘offensive’ name and logo banned from Phoenix hospital: ‘We’re trying to portray how the workers feel’

Graveyard Shift Coffee served at Mayo clinic for years before someone complained about its name

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2 w. ago Sales boss fired for working remotely in Egypt wins £61k from firm

He said he had been unable to fly back to the UK because he had fallen ill with Covid-19

Economics

3 w. ago Legal groups resist Trump authoritarian moves with pro bono work

Groups of lawyers battling to get clients’ jobs back, avoid prosecutions or recoup money that has been illegally blockedAs the Trump administration has fired federal employees and top officials for political reasons, blocked millions of dollars Congress appropriated and flouted legal norms, several legal outfits are providing crucial pro bono and other help to many individuals hurt by Donald Trump’s authoritarian actions, say lawyers involved and ex-prosecutors.Lowell & Associates, Democracy Defenders Fund and the Washington Litigation Group, are among the leading legal groups with clients battling to get their jobs back, avoid prosecutions, or recoup millions of dollars that have been illegally blocked, say attorneys with the trio and experts. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago University worker sues for racial harassment after boss banned her from putting up Christmas tree in November

Marilyn Maher claimed her boss Jacqueline Robert,s 'humiliated' her when she said it was 'too early' to put up the festive decoration, a tribunal heard.

Events

3 w. ago Drew Barrymore asks for ‘femme fatale’ role in Spinal Tap director’s next film

‘I will be your clay, mould me,’ she told Rob Reiner

Events

3 w. ago Brits urged to 'wash their car keys now' after grim discovery is made

Cleaning routines usually include hoovering your vehicle, clearing out the glove box and wiping down windows - or just visiting a car wash - but how often do you think about cleansing your car keys?

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3 w. ago On the road with the minister tasked with defending Britain’s painful aid cuts to Ghana

Jenny Chapman is shown the impact of her government’s ever-diminishing assistance on her first trip since taking charge of developmentIt is mid-afternoon on an overcast day in a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital. A crowd, including two government ministers, a World Bank director, diplomats, NGO workers and camera-wielding media, has descended upon a classroom where pupils sit around tables playing with plastic bottle tops.This is a catch-up class for out-of-school children, aged between eight and 16, run by Ghana Education Outcomes Project that is almost entirely (85%) funded by the UK government. The resulting circus is because Jenny Chapman, the UK’s development minister, has come to see the impact of her government’s diminishing aid budget. Continue reading...

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