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Outrage from devastated High Street as Amazon pays less tax in UK despite profits tripling
There has been an outcry after news emerged that the tax delivery giant Amazon pays in the UK has fallen despite profits almost tripling. Amazon’s turnover was nearly £2 billion in the UK and its profits leapt. Yet the internet delivery giant’s taxes fell, partly due to being able to pay some of the staff in shares. Amazon UK’s taxes fell to just £1.7 million last year, down from £7.4 million in 2016. Billionaire Jeff Bezos's company says it pays...
Breathing low levels of toxic air pollution causes changes similar to early stages of heart failure
Being exposed to levels of soot and harmful fumes at levels well within UK legal limits damages the heart
Prolonged drought caused collapse of Maya civilisation about one thousand years ago
Between half and three quarters the usual rainfall and a drop in humidity in the ninth century coincided with the downfall of one of the ancient world's great civilisations
Britain’s sewer fatbergs could power your home with green energy
Scientist develop way to break down oils so they can be converted into methane
Ancient Welshmen helped build Stonehenge, a new study found
Neolithic people from Preseli Mountains of west Wales transported huge stones and help build monument in Wessex
Amazon public service contract “a joke”
If Amazon really wanted to help our public services, they'd pay taxes properly and treat their workforce better says GMB Union GMB, Britain’s general union, has branded Amazon’s £600million public sector deal ‘a joke’ The internet giant has secured a contract to sell everything from paper clips to bandages to Yorkshire’s schools, social care providers and emergency services. Amazon signed the five-year deal with Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), a procurement body owned by local authorities which helps to drive the...
BoE’s interest rate hike is ‘premature & unnecessary’ & could be ‘motivated to protect reputations’
The Bank of England’s interest rate hike has been slammed as “premature” by the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, who added the rate decision could be “motivated to protect reputations.” Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, is speaking out after the governor of the UK’s central bank, Mark Carney, announced today (Thursday) a rate rise from 0.5 per cent to 0.75 per cent, taking the UK's base rate of interest to...
WE’RE NOT ALONE – Planet 1,400 light years away ‘really could harbour life’
Nicknamed 'Earth's cousin' - it gets just the right amount of light from its sun for the chemical building blocks of life to develop, according to a study
Plastic bags ‘fuelling global warming’
When plastic bags break down on beaches, in parks - or even in the sea - they emit the greenhouse gases methane and ethylene, say scientists