6 h. ago ‘I’m a racy model who makes 10 times my former salary by treating myself like a business’

Alix Lynx, who has been in the adult industry for 10 years, says she has only called in sick once and that she has had a business mindset since she was a teenager

Economics

3 d. ago World leading cancer research and treatment hub lined up for Sutton

The £1 bn scheme is subject to approval by the local authority in the Autumn with work starting next year

Science

4 d. ago Edinburgh firm's new high street cataract treatment receives investment boost

Edinburgh Biosciences, the company behind a revolutionary new non-surgical treatment for cataracts has received a £2.3m loan investment from Contamac Ltd a company whose major shareholder is also a major shareholder in Edinburgh Biosciences.

Economics

8 d. ago 'Nursery costs more than my salary' Parenting in Wales, where childcare is highest in UK

"Nursery costs more than my salary after tax and pension," said one full time working mother of two. Caroline and Matt Stuart could only both afford to return to work full time because Caroline's father looks after their sons two days a week.

Society

3 w. ago I'm a billionaire businessman but I will never choose to live in the UK

David von Rosen, a German billionaire living in Dubai , says the ultra-rich are treating the UK with great caution as a place to do business amid rising tax rates.

Society

3 w. ago Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation processUS politics live – latest updatesThe head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he’d like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation processUS politics live – latest updatesThe head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he would like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Nationwide makes major change to mortgage rule in boost for first

Nationwide has lowered the minimum earnings required for its Helping Hand mortgage - which lets you borrow up to six times your salary - from £40,000 back down to £35,000

Politics

3 w. ago Teenage "bully" hit in the pocket after two nasty attacks in Motherwell town centre

After hearing that the 17-year-old has a full time job and earns a good salary, Sheriff Mungo Bovey imposed cash penalties totalling almost £2,000.

Events

4 w. ago Revealed: How to get on the property ladder WITHOUT shelling out on stamp duty

Taking the first step on the property ladder has become an unaffordable leap for many. A typical house costs 257 per cent more than it did 25 years ago and costs nearly 7.2 times the average salary.

Politics

4 w. ago ‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea

Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it’s amazingly unsmelly “Who’d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?” asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner Colm Moore runs the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore. Who indeed, yet they have had to find a way to overcome precisely this difficulty. In the coastal town of Arklow, 40 miles south of the Irish capital, they have designed a wastewater facility that seeks to act as a landmark for the town, an agent of its renewal and growth, and a good neighbour to the homes and shops and places of work that it is hoped will be built alongside. The plant consists of two calm oblongs of mysterious scale, their long horizontals echoing the line where the sea meets the sky, plus a third more domestic structure alongside, all in a marine blue-green colour you could call pale teal.The project is in illustrious company. The tra...

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