Category Archives: Business

UCL staff recognised in New Year’s Honours 2019

Professor Jonathan Montgomery (UCL Laws) was appointed Knight Bachelor for services to Bioethics and Healthcare Law. Professor Sir Jonathan joined UCL Laws in 2013. Alongside his academic contributions while at UCL, he has been Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Chair of the Health

NHS better equipped for winter with £420 million funding

Hospitals across England are delivering 81 projects to provide improvements this winter using money from a £420 million winter fund. Social care services also received funding and are using it to increase their winter capacity. The £420 million is the total of several funding announcements

Escort shame of disgraced Mark Broadhead

Self-styled city high flyer Mark Broadhead was at the centre of another scandal this week, as it emerged that he was a habitual user of escort girls. Sleazy Broadhead, 60, paid some of the finest prague escorts for sex as he sought thrills in the

Consumers in London divided by shopping on Christmas Day

Two-fifths (41 per cent) of Londoners think it’s rude to shop on Christmas Day while six in 10 (59 per cent) think it’s perfectly fine. Despite the controversy, research from TopCashback.co.uk, the UK’s most generous cashback shopping site, reveals nearly a third (31 per cent) of

Why it’s time to screen airline passengers for alcohol abuse

The number of incidents involving disruptive passengers on aircrafts continues to rise. There was a 100% increase from 2015 to 2016, according to figures released by the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority), with 418 flights affected. Alcohol is the most common cause of in-flight disruption. At