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Uber in early talks to acquire food delivery rival Deliveroo Financial Times
Uber is in early-stage talks to acquire the food-delivery app Deliveroo, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of its efforts to ramp up ...
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Uber Eats customers face delays after riders ‘go on strike’ and start ignoring McDonald’s orders after rate sp The Sun
Hungry customers craving a Big Mac and fries complained they waited for hours for orders that never came. By Ellie Cambridge. 20th September 2018, 1:09 am.
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Uber rebrand looks to reflect how the taxi app is “changing” Design Week
The start-up has a new visual identity designed by Wolff Olins, one year after being embroiled in a host of scandals, and two years after its last brand was ...
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Uber passenger drives himself home from Bangalore airport Daily Mail
An Indian man who ordered an Uber was forced to drive it himself because the driver was too drunk. Surya Oruganti had booked the car to take him home from ...
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Chicago Tribune
Southland crime: Tinley man charged with groping Uber driver, more
Chicago Tribune
CAR BURGLARIES: Police said a thief or thieves are stealing from unlocked cars and then breaking into the victims' garages. Burglaries occurred in the 21300 block of Bristol Court, 800 block of St. Andrews Way, the 900 block of Shetland Drive and the ...
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Man orders Uber to pick him up from airport - but he's not prepared for the bizarre journey Mirror Online
After a long flight a man ordered an Uber hoping to get home quickly, but he wasn't prepared for what happened next.
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Plans for £100m indoor arena in Bristol unveiled BBC News
Plans for a £100m purpose-built indoor arena in Bristol have been unveiled. The 4,000-capacity sports and convention centre, adjacent to Ashton Gate, would ...
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Leeds Uber drivers say customers are at risk due to licensing loophole Leeds Live
Over 100 Uber employees staged a protest outside Uber HQ in Leeds.
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FutureCar
Startup Vertical Aerospace Aims to Have Flying Taxi Service by 2022
FutureCar
Uber, thanks to a research partnership with NASA, is hoping to take its ride-sharing service to the sky. Uber, though, has no interest in building the vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts itself, as it has announced multiple partnerships with battery ...
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PlaceTech (press release)
First air taxi prototype lifts off in the UK
PlaceTech (press release)
Bristol-based startup Vertical Aerospace has become the first company in the UK to build and test an electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft, designed to work as an 'air taxi' to revolutionise short-haul flying. Vertical Aerospace's ...
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Cat in Bristol brings home bag of suspected class A drugs BBC News
Police said the bag was found in the cat's bed at its home in St Pauls, Bristol.
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Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by 'online crims' The Register
Bristol Airport deliberately yanked its flight screens offline for two days over the weekend in response to a cyberattack. Techies took down computer-based flight ...
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The Uber Eats and Deliveroo riders fighting back against 'poor pay and work conditions' Wales Online
Couriers say they are struggling to make ends meet and pay for expenses and maintenance.
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The Times
PR guru Rachel Whetstone denies racism claim by sacked Uber colleague
The Times
The Bristol University graduate is one of the most well-connected people in Silicon Valley. Before Uber, she spent a decade as head of communications and policy at Google, where she developed close relationships with billionaire founders Larry Page and ...
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The Times
PR guru Rachel Whetstone denies racism claim by sacked Uber colleague
The Times
The Bristol University graduate is one of the most well-connected people in Silicon Valley. Before Uber, she spent a decade as head of communications and policy at Google, where she developed close relationships with billionaire founders Larry Page and ...
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BBC West Live: Breaking news and travel
BBC News
They're asking for people who order via the app not to make any orders between 6-8pm tonight to support their cause. A Bristol courier, who did not want to be named, said: "Deliveroo and Uber try to present a fluffy image of how they treat riders but ...
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His Dark Materials TV series FIRST LOOK Daily Mail
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is set to come to life on the small screen, with the first pictures of the set in Llangynidr Quarry in Crickhowell, Wales released.
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Uber-style flying taxi to ‘ferry Brits through air at 200mph by 2022’ The Sun
HATE airports? A new flying taxi could mean you never have to set foot in Heathrow (or worse, Luton) again. British engineering experts have designed a ...
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The Guardian
Widow sues DPD over courier husband's death
The Guardian
Ruth Lane has lodged a claim at the employment tribunal in Bristol which alleges that Lane was ill and vomiting blood but attended work due to his fear of being fined for failing to attend work without permission. He completed his route but collapsed ...
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Allure Magazine
Why I Flew All the Way to Paris for a Tata Harper Facial
Allure Magazine
Three days before boarding a plane to head to Paris with my boyfriend (spoiler alert: No, he didn't propose, but thanks for asking!), I received an ~exclusive invite to experience a facial at the recently opened Tata Harper Treatment Room at the Le ...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth sailors praised by Florida Uber driver for fixing her car The News
SELFLESS sailors from Portsmouth have been praised by a taxi driver in Florida for fixing her car - while on a trip back to their ship.
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TechSPARK (blog)
Bristol driverless car report challenges business models
TechSPARK (blog)
One interesting result was that users were most willing to use and pay for an individual driverless vehicle and the least willing to use and pay for a shared driverless vehicle such as a ride-sharing service like Uber. This finding is contrary to the ...
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Somerset Live
Bristol-based startup aims to launch on-demand air taxi service by 2022
Somerset Live
There's a new startup in Bristol and it might soon be seen as the Uber of the skies. Called Vertical Aerospace, the company is seeking to launch an on-demand air taxi service by 2022. Its unmanned prototype, released publicly today (September 10), was ...
Bristol based air-taxi aims for the skies within the next four yearsTaxiPoint Taxi News
This 28-person startup took a big first step towards launching a nationwide flying taxi service by 2022Markets Insider
The flying car backed by Google's cofounder just got a big update, and people can pilot it with less than an hour's ...Business Insider UK
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The Sun
Uber-style flying taxi to 'ferry Brits through air at 200mph by 2022'
The Sun
Its creators eventually hope to build an Uber-style network of flying cars that pilot themselves. Engineers working on the Bristol-based project say it should launch in the UK in the next four years. The end goal is to create an Uber-style service that ...
Uber Eats couriers shut down major London roads in protest demanding £5 minimum per delivery - The Independent
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Hundreds of Uber Eats couriers have abandoned deliveries and brought traffic to a standstill in London as they protest over pay. Motorbike and moped riders ...
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