Ruth Comerford & Grace Dean BBC News BBC Louise Gowrie tried to appeal her ban but was rejected Asos shoppers have expressed anger after their accounts were shut for returning too many orders. Some customers have received emails in recent days informing them they are banned for allegedly breaching the online fashion giant’s fair use...
UK high street chain Game has apologised after it cancelled some pre-orders of the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Gamers have waited years for the Switch 2 – the successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history – with the new model being finally released to the public on 5 June. But some of...
A man who marched into a Wetherspoon pub armed with an axe and threatened two men in the beer garden has been jailed. Jason Semple, 54, of Tavistock Road, Okehampton, Devon, admitted two charges of threatening a person with a bladed article at the White Hart Hotel in Okehampton. The incident happened at about 18:00...
Starbucks will hire more baristas and scale back plans to roll out automation, the coffee shop giant’s chief executive Brian Niccol says. The move, which is part of his strategy to win back customers, comes as other food and drink chains increasingly adopt technology to cut costs. Also on Tuesday, the firm announced worse-than-expected financial...
Liv McMahon & Joe Tidy Technology reporter & cyber correspondent Reuters Marks and Spencer (M&S) customers have been telling the BBC of their frustration as disruption caused by the cyber attack which has hit the retailer continues into another trading week. The incident – which it disclosed last Monday – has caused delayed parcels, paused...
A burst pipe is affecting the water supply for some customers in the Plymouth area, South West Water (SWW) has said. It said customers in the postcode areas of PL6, PL19 and PL20 may be experiencing a loss of supply or lower water pressure than usual. SWW has set up water collection points for customers...
Kirk England BBC South West Environment Correspondent BBC Christine from Plymouth said she felt “very angry” her bill had increased because she did not have a water meter Disgruntled South West Water (SWW) customers have been speaking out after the utility company announced average customer bills for this year would go up by 28%. The...
Kirk England Environment and tourism correspondent, BBC South West PA Media South West Water said it was doing everything it could to keep bills affordable Some South West Water (SWW) customers have said they are angry and concerned at water bill rises that came into force at the beginning of April. Chris Dealy from Cornwall...
His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while...
Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco EPA Signage outside of the offices of the biotechnology company 23andMe in South San Francisco. Photo by GEORGE NIKITIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The computer systems of 23andMe have been struggling to cope with the sheer volume of customers racing to delete their data, after the DNA-testing company announced that it was filing for...