Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 6 May 2015
- 1. FINAL CAMPAIGNING DAY AS COALITION LOOMS
- 2. SAINSBURY'S POSTS FIRST LOSS IN TEN YEARS
- 3. THE WHO TO CLOSE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
- 4. UKIP SUSPENDS CANDIDATE FOR THREAT
- 5. GERMANWINGS PILOT 'TRIED CRASH DESCENT'
- 6. EU TO INVESTIGATE MCDONALDS ON TAX
- 7. £11M OF COCAINE IN ALDI BANANA DELIVERY
- 8. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OFF TO NORFOLK
- 9. BOLLYWOOD STAR SALMAN KHAN FACES JAIL
- 10. BRIEFING: UNIVERSITIES WITH BEST JOB PROSPECTS
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1. FINAL CAMPAIGNING DAY AS COALITION LOOMS
Today is the final day of campaigning before Thursday’s general election and the leaders of the main parties are all on the road putting across their final messages, while polls still suggest no single party will win a majority. The Express yesterday became the first newspaper to suggest readers vote for Ukip.
Last laughs before polling day: on tour with Boris and Dave
2. SAINSBURY'S POSTS FIRST LOSS IN TEN YEARS
Retailer Sainsbury's has become the latest casualty of the high street grocery war as it recorded its first full-year loss for ten years. The chain reported a £72m loss in the year to 14 March. Shares in the UK's third-largest supermarket fell by 5% before recovering slightly.
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3. THE WHO TO CLOSE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
The Who have been confirmed as the headline act on Sunday night at Glastonbury this year. The band join fellow headliners Foo Fighters and Kanye West on the bill and will close the event on 28 June. The band has promised to take fans on an "amazing journey" through their back catalogue.
4. UKIP SUSPENDS CANDIDATE FOR THREAT
Ukip has suspended a candidate after he allegedly made racist comments about his Tory rival and threatened to shoot him. Robert Blay, who was standing in North East Hampshire, was secretly filmed saying Ranil Jayawardena was “not British enough” to serve as PM and he would “put a bullet in him” if he ever did.
5. GERMANWINGS PILOT 'TRIED CRASH DESCENT'
A report into the Germanwings crash in March, which killed 150 people, has claimed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who flew the plane into the Alps, attempted a similar manoeuvre during a flight earlier that day. Investigators referred to a "controlled descent that lasted for minutes and for which there was no aeronautical justification".
Woman convicted of fraud after posing as Germanwings crash relative
6. EU TO INVESTIGATE MCDONALDS ON TAX
EU officials are examining allegations that fast food giant McDonalds exploited a fiscal loophole in Luxembourg to dodge more than €1bn (£740m) tax. The claim comes from trades unions, who say the burger chain’s Luxembourg subsidiary employs just 13 people, yet posted €834m of revenue in 2013.
7. £11M OF COCAINE IN ALDI BANANA DELIVERY
Cocaine with a value of £11m has been delivered to branches of supermarket Aldi in Berlin, after smugglers made what German police have described as a "logistical error". The drugs were hidden in crates of bananas sent to Germany from Colombia. The shipment, distributed to different stores, weighed in at 300kg.
Cocaine stash worth £11m delivered to Aldi
8. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OFF TO NORFOLK
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have left Kensington Palace with their newborn daughter, Princess Charlotte, and son, Prince George, to spend time together as a family at Anmer Hall, their recently-refuurbished home in Norfolk. Prince William is on two weeks paternity leave from his job as an air ambulance pilot.
Princess Charlotte to start nursery school in January
9. BOLLYWOOD STAR SALMAN KHAN FACES JAIL
Bollywood film star Salman Khan has been granted bail ahead of an appeal this week hours after he was sentenced to five years in jail for killing a man in a hit-and-run car crash in 2002. The victim was one of five homeless people who were run over when the car mounted a pavement in Mumbai. Khan was convicted of culpable homicide.
10. BRIEFING: UNIVERSITIES WITH BEST JOB PROSPECTS
Cambridge and Oxford are outperformed by London universities when it comes to graduate job prospects, according to statistics from the Complete University Guide. Graduates from Imperial College London currently have the best chance of finding a professional job within six months of leaving university, while St George's, University of London, is close behind.
Ten worst UK universities for class equality
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