At 1,350 metres above the Pustertal valley, with the peaks of the Dolomites visible on the southern horizon and South Tyrol’s number one ski mountain at the door, Hotel Kristall – Kronplatz Resort in Geiselsberg above Valdaora – offers a specific and rare combination: an outdoor pool and a panoramic whirlpool positioned to face a Dolomite panorama that guests describe as among the most beautiful they have ever seen from a wellness facility. But what distinguishes Kristall from the many hotels that claim a pool and a mountain view? The Outdoor Pool and Whirlpool: Designed Around the View At Hotel…
Author: Helen Rourke
Helen Rourke
Helen Rourke trained as a chartered accountant and spent fourteen years in financial services before starting to write. She qualified at a mid-tier firm, moved in-house to a media company's finance team, and spent her last years as a finance director at a creative agency, which gave her an unusual vantage point on both sides of the balance sheet. She writes about personal finance, tax, pensions, and the money questions people ask at dinner parties but never ask their accountant. She explains numbers without condescension and has no interest in making simple things sound complicated. Helen lives in North London. She files her own tax return on the first day it opens and considers this a character flaw.
The 21 Air Miami runway crash that killed five people and seriously injured five others on Sunday is now the subject of a federal investigation, after a Boeing 767 freighter overran the end of the runway at Miami International Airport, crossed a road and struck several vehicles on the ground. The plane burst into flames shortly after coming to rest.The incident happened just before 14:00 local time. The aircraft had arrived from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, operated by 21 Air, a charter company based in North Carolina, on behalf of Amazon. Three of the…
Houthi strikes on Saudi Aramco’s refining complex at Jazan helped drive oil prices to a six-week high on Monday, as a weekend of exchanges between the United States and Iran deepened an already volatile situation across the Middle East. Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose 1.3% to $97.52 a barrel, touching $97.93 at its peak, the highest level since 23 July. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, climbed 1.3% to $92.68, briefly surpassing $93 a barrel, also a level last seen in late July.Houthi strikes on Saudi Aramco take Jazan refinery offlineWhile initial reports left responsibility for the Jazan attack…
JLR job cuts 2026 will see 4,000 roles eliminated over the next two years as the carmaker faces a simultaneous squeeze from US tariffs, Chinese competition and the fallout from a cyberattack that halted production for more than a month last year.The redundancies will fall mainly on head office staff in the UK. Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors and operates 17 sites in England, employs about 43,000 people globally, according to Reuters. Of that total, around 34,000 are based in Britain, making the scale of any domestic impact hard to overstate.Who is affected by the…
Chancellor John Healey will use a speech in Coventry on Monday to announce the John Healey northern fund, a £150m package for businesses across the north of England, even as rising government borrowing costs cast a long shadow over next month’s Budget.The fund will provide investments of between £5m and £15m to what Healey’s team describes as the ‘most innovative and fast-growing firms’ in the region, including university spin-outs and other ‘ambitious businesses’. According to the British Business Bank, the fund is designed to deliver larger-scale investments that complement the Bank’s existing Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II, plugging a gap…
A Norwich community interest company is launching the Eat Social food challenge this October, asking people to feed themselves on just £3 a day for two days to draw attention to the growing number of families who cannot afford to eat properly. According to the Norwich Evening News, the challenge runs from 16 to 18 October, with participants encouraged to eat on a tight budget and donate the money they would otherwise have spent on food.Eat Social operates a cafe on Wensum Street in Norwich. Lisa Vincent, who set up the company after hearing stories of children presenting with diseases…
Iran’s parliament speaker has warned the United States that the Iran oil tanker strikes have ended any era of measured retaliation, vowing that future violations of Iranian security will be met with responses that are ‘faster, heavier, and more painful.’ The warning came as Tehran acknowledged deepening economic damage from the ongoing conflict.Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has served as Speaker of Iran’s parliament since 2020 according to Wikipedia, posted the threat on Telegram on Sunday. ‘If they haven’t understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that from now…
Jaguar Land Rover has opened a JLR voluntary redundancy programme affecting salaried staff and managers, prompting Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds to arrange emergency talks with the company’s bosses and the Unite union early next week. The Times has reported that as many as 4,000 jobs could be lost, though JLR has not confirmed that figure.JLR confirmed the move to the BBC, saying it had informed colleagues and trade union partners of the programme and would share further details with employees before making any wider announcement. The company said the changes would ‘simplify’ the business and ‘improve efficiency and build greater…
The Schwartz’s deli cherry soda that generations of Montreal visitors came to regard as part of the meal has gone, replaced by a locally made alternative after its American supplier quietly stopped production. The loss of the black cherry cola, a fixture at the famous deli for decades, turns out to have a larger story behind it, one that stretches from the counter in Montreal all the way to the trade policy coming out of Washington.Eight years of dwindling supplySchwartz’s had not been caught entirely off guard. The deli had been watching the cola’s supply dwindle for around eight years,…
Contributed content: this article was written by a third-party contributor and does not necessarily reflect the views of Humanima. Editorial and Advertising Policy More than 130 manufacturers opened their factory doors to the public this week as part of National Manufacturing Day, giving students and local communities an opportunity to see what modern production actually looks like. The event comes at an important time for the industry. UK manufacturers continue to report difficulties finding people with the skills they need, but the nature of those skills is changing as factories introduce more automation, digital systems and connected production equipment. Make…
