The Drinks Business
17 February 2021 By Patrick Schmitt
British fashion model Jodie Kidd has joined the fight to save pubs from permanent closure by calling on the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak to cut Beer Duty in the upcoming Budget on 3 March.
Model and publican, Jodie Kidd is making a final desperate plea to Chancellor Rishi Sunak to cut Beer Duty in the upcoming Budget
Jodie, who owns
The Half Moon pub in Kirdford, West Sussex, first started petitioning the UK government for a cut in beer duty in 2018, when on average, three pubs a day closed their doors for good.
Despite three long years of campaigning with
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Even new homes in Auckland are beyond the reach of first time homebuyers under the Kāinga Ora first home loan scheme eligibility criteria.
Emile Steenkamp is earning a decent wage and saving hard but still can t break into the Auckland housing market. He says it s frustrating the Government systems set up to help first-home buyers are no use to him. The Kāinga Ora low-deposit first-home loan scheme allows people to access loans with a 5 per cent deposit. But city property prices have risen so far that Kāinga Ora’s low-deposit first home scheme has stalled in Auckland and Wellington.
A âShot at a shotâ: Vaccine chasers irk South LA residents as hospitals work to help as many as possible
SOUTH LA, Calif. - Several out of town people are lining up outside of a clinic in South LA hoping to get a leftover COVID-19 vaccine. But these so-called ‘vaccine chasers’ are upsetting the local residents.
For weeks hundreds of people from nearby cities have been lining up outside of Kedren Community Health Center in South LA waiting to see if there are any unused vaccines.
However, community members say they should be prioritized over people coming from other cities.
The Co-operative Bank is owned by their savers, and not by shareholders seeking to earn a profit, and chief executive David Cunningham said the bank had long used its children’s accounts as a way of winning young savers who then became customers for life. There have been fears that New Zealand savers could end up facing negative interest rates, but in real terms that has already happened to most savers, the rates on offer from banks and other financial institutions show.
RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND
Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr apologises for the Accellion hack in January. ANZ was paying just 0.05 per cent on $5000 deposited in its Select savings account.