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Retailer ‘defies gravity’ to become only fourth in UK to pass £1bn profit thresholdIt may not be a fashion leader or the cheapest place to fill your wardrobe, but Next has quietly confirmed its place as a British success story by ringing up £1bn in profits for the first time.Next’s growth came despite static sales of its own label in the UK as it expands the brand overseas – including via online marketplaces such as Zalando – and sells other labels it has invested in both online and in its stores. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/27/next-reports-1bn-in-annual-profits-for-first-time-but-warns-on-uk-economy Author : Sarah

North Bergen’s Robert Farley allegedly drugged coffee pot and shaved body hair on colleagues in series of ‘pranks’A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.NJ.com reported that Robert Farley, chief of North Bergen police, repeatedly harassed his co-workers with a series of so-called pranks, while he is also accused of retaliating after a colleague, who is a person of color, complained of racial harassment.

Incident took place near the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of HurghadaThe Russian consulate in Hurghada said the submarine, named “SINDBAD”, had 45 Russian tourists on board in addition to crew members.The consulate said four people had died, but did not specify if they were Russian, Reuters reported.Six people have died and nine others are injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said. AP reported that the officials were speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.The incident, involving a recreational vessel operated

US president threaten ‘large scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned’ if EU works with Canada amid trade war concernsTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that