Brad Gray

French farmers have deployed their tractors to shut down the motorways surrounding Paris. The blockades are the most prominent in a series of bold protests against the French government and the EU over economic regulations which threaten farmers’s livelihoods. Tens of thousands of police officers have been tasked with making sure lorries travelling through France …

Amazon is calling time on the “Just Walk Out” technology in its Fresh supermarket stores in the US. The system allows customers to scan their phones on entry, do their shop and leave without going through a traditional checkout. The purchases are then billed to their Amazon accounts. It was launched in 2016, and other …

A last-gasp deal from the Department of Transport may have kept Britain’s biggest train factory open. The Litchurch Lane plant in Derby employs 3,000 workers and has 140 years of history. The owners – French firm Alstom – were planning to close it due to a gap in contracted work between later this year and …

Architects have altered the design of the UK’s new (joint) tallest skyscraper – again. Plans for One Undershaft, in the City of London, have been overhauled completely a number of times since they were first drawn up in 2015. The current design is a pedestrian three-tiered structure not bold enough to be worthy of a …

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