Author: Blueprint Media

Briefs

Beat That!

Tim Martin, who founded the nationwide pub chain JD Wetherspoon, is currently in dispute with global brewers Heineken over his company’s bid to sell cheaper-than-market-price

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How do you rate this?

If you have to borrow £200 from payday lender Wonga for 10 days you will pay an annual percentage rate (APR) of 5,853 per cent.

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Driven to Distraction

In a test, students holding a hands free telephone conversation while driving a simulator made more observable mistakes than a control group driving a simulator

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Smoking Gun

Forty years ago, 45 per cent of British adults smoked: 52 per cent of men and 41 per cent of women. Last year, 2013, this

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Shouldering Blame

The sad death of a 60 year old man yesterday on the hard shoulder of the M74 – he was changing a wheel of his

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Drum Duo

As the 600th anniversary of the famous Battle of Agincourt looms – it’s on 25th October 2015 – one descendant of a great many participants

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