UK Business News

UK Tanker drivers have agreed a deal with their employers after a few days of strike action sent the country into the usual panic last weekend.
Despite pleas from Gordon Brown to the public, not to panic buy, the message as always had the reverse effect, with basements and garages being stockpiled across the country, to [...]

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Gordon Brown has urged the public not to panic buy fuel, ahead of the planned four day strike by tanker drivers due to start on Friday morning.
The government believes that if the strike goes ahead, it could affect just 10% of the countries filling stations, they also say they have  stocks in place around the [...]

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Manufacturers of London’s iconic black cab, Manganese Bronze, have announced that worldwide orders for the taxi cab have now exceeded 3000, since the companies joint venture with Chinese business Shanghai LTI.
Orders from Mexico, Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East have been mentioned although the eventual whereabouts of the vehicles is a closely guarded [...]

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Software giant Microsoft has seen profits slide by 11% in the third quarter as sales of MS Office fall in the face of the gloomy economic outlook.
Shares fell 5% on the news and weren’t helped by continued uncertainty around MS’s bid for Yahoo!. The bid price is already seen as high and the attempted acquisition may [...]

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The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) have had an open letter published in today’s Financial Times, expressing their concern that the T5 problems at Heathrow are making a ‘laughing stock’ of BA.
Jim McAuslan, Balpa’s general secretary wrote: “It is with great sorrow and acute embarrassment that BA pilots have witnessed the unhappy shambles that the [...]

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