Paddy Power Betfair is to pay £2m for acting too slowly on concerning customer behaviours, including one player who staked £86,000 over 16 days and another who placed 300 bets in eight hours. The Gambling Commission found social responsibility failures in a review of the firm last year and said some customer interactions “fell far…
Getty Images The backlog of driving tests grew after the covid-19 lockdown Learner drivers face months of delays booking practical tests because a backlog will not be cleared until November 2027, a watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) said there was a backlog of 1.1 million tests that were not carried out in…
Warren Buffett’s lessons don’t just extend to markets and investment – they are often regarded as pearls of wisdom for dealing with life’s ups and downs. (AP file photo) Warren Buffett is known for many things – he is one of the richest persons in the world, a master of investment, the ‘Oracle of…
Some drivers have been incorrectly fined for speeding due to an issue with variable speed cameras in England, National Highways has said. The government agency said it was implementing a fix to address an anomaly detected in the way some variable speed cameras interact with signs on some A-roads and motorways. This has resulted in…
PA Media Despite not being able to save all jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic, Rishi Sunak asserts that the government successfully prevented mass unemployment. The former prime minister, who was chancellor at the time, said it “wasn’t going to be possible to save every person’s job”. But he said the government was “successful in preventing…
In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories in the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. China is already the world’s largest market for industrial robots, and the government is pouring billions of dollars…
A revamp of train timetables has come into effect across the country, involving some of the most significant changes for more than seven years. Rail operators are promising more services across the network and faster journeys on some routes as a result of the changes, with the East Coast Main Line to benefit the most….
