Author: News Desk

Number of UK estate agents going bust rises almost a third in one year Higher interest rates puts further pressure on property market, with overall transactions at lowest level in a decade. The number of UK estate agents declaring insolvency has jumped by almost a third with nearly 300 businesses going bust in the last year. The figures underline the gloom around Britain’s property market, with the fewest home sales recorded for more than a decade hitting estate agent income. Number of UK estate agents going bust rises almost a third in one year

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Nile Rodgers and Chic give Glasgow a musical masterclass as they perform at TRNSMT Bringing the disco vibe to TRNSMT with Chic, the 69-year-old took fans on a nostalgic trip performing I Want Your Love and Freak Out. He then proved his legendary status as he belted out the songs he wrote and produced for other artists which included everything from the Diana Ross hits I’m Coming Out and Upside Down to David Bowie’s Modern Love and Let’s Dance. Surrounded by the soulful voices of Chic, Rodgers looked effortlessly cool as he showed off his musicianship on the guitar. He…

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Sam Fender arrives at TRNSMT with a saltire flag and has crowd singing ‘f**k the Torie’ The star warmed up the stage last year before headliners The Courteeners. And he returned to carry out the same tradition for Paisley superstar Paolo Nutini. Surely it’s time for the Geordie rocker to take that headlining spot? Running on stage flying a saltire, he certainly proved his TRNSMT worth kicking things off with Will We Talk before launching into Getting Started. He said: “Alright Glasgow, how we doing?” And despite the drizzly conditions, the crowd was doing fine lapping every second of Fender’s Springteen-esque…

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Example plays Calvin Harris’ mum’s favourite song during TRNSMT set Warming up the stage for the star – whose real name is Elliot Gleave – his DJ beamed: “Some people know him as the major of Glasgow. We know him as Example.” The rapper, 40, then launched into the Laidback Luke collaboration Natural Disaster before announcing, “Glasgow’s it’s good to be home. “We are here for one thing today and that’s to jump about like f**king lunatics.” He added: “I f**king love this city. I’ve been coming to Glasgow since 2006 and you always show me love.” And the fans responded in typical Glasgow…

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Labour appoints oil baron Rachel Kyte as climate envoy role Labour appoints oil baron Rachel Kyte as the new climate chief at the World Bank and will lead UK’s return to high-level environmental diplomacy. Who is Rachel Kyte, the UK’s new climate envoy? A former oil baron of the World Bank has been appointed to lead the UK’s efforts to forge a global coalition on climate action. As the climate chief at the World Bank and she will lead UK’s environmental diplomacy. She has a board connection with Quadrature which is hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of…

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For an attacking player, he’s like Bergkamp and being compared to legendary Premier League forwards Dennis Bergkamp and Robin van Persie is not a bad thing at all. But are the pundits going to far, getting carried away or are they just pandering to a social media audience. Let’s take a deep dive. Cole Palmer makes history at Chelsea The 22-year-old got all four goals, scoring them in the first half of the game – the first time that has ever been done in the Premier League. Cole Palmer makes history at Chelsea and was likened to both Arsenal Dutch…

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