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Welsh government is planning to ban e-cigarettes

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The regional government of Wales has made plans to outlaw e-cigarettes in public places. It will be banned in this area soon.

The Labour-led government also wants to restrict the use of chemical inhalers as their paper-based counterparts, news coming from The Guardian.

Those measures are just part of a broader scheme in order to improve the health condition of the Welsh nation.

There are also other plans including compulsory licensing of tattooing, acupuncture and body piercing business. The businessmen are forbidden to sell nicotine and tobacco products to people are under 18. Nicotine and tobacco are not good for health.

Mark Darkeford, the minister of from Welsh health and social service said the Welsh government has obligation to provide healthy environments that enable the local people to live healthy, happy lives and prevents the people from harming health by the living condition.

He added:”the government has strong tradition of using legal ways to improve health for the public”. And he said he is confident with the proposal as the measures in Public Health Bill will support its implementation.

At the same time, a ban on e-cigarettes has been introduced by train operator Southern Rail recently in England in order to comfort its other passengers.

Cashless payments are popular than notes and coins in UK

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Paying by credit card or debit card are popular around the world. We don’t have to carry a great amount of money when we purchase. In the past, the residents in UK loved to pay on notes and coins much. There is data showing that cashless payments are now more popular in UK than notes and coins.

The UK will take some time to be going all-digital country. But they use cards, smartphones and online banking more often than physical currency.

Around 52 percent of all transactions are now cashless based on the data from the Payments Council. And there are 24 percent of transactions are paid by debit cards.

However, the volume of notes’ and coins’ transactions accounted for 52 percent of all payments last year. The figure is declining.

The cashless payments are on the rise, and the figure shows they increased from a 20 pounds limit to 30 pounds by last September. And the residents in UK will be soon able to use new technologies to pay such as Apply Pay.

In UK, the number of cash machines reached at 69,382 in 2014 which it was an unprecedented high. And the free-to-use terminals are also increasing with a rate of 5.2 percent per year.

Amazon uses Subway to deliver goods to beat the traffic

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Amazon may be experienced with drone on delivery techniques, but they are also finding a new way deliver goods for deliveries in New York.

The retailer uses subway in a bid to beat the traffic and cut waiting times for Prime Now customers in Manhattan, source coming from The Financial Times reports.

In the past, the staff pushed large trollies which were full of smaller items on the train network so that to promise service’s 60-minutes guarantee.

Amazon admitted the news that they deliver goods by their folk bikes, walking or using public transportation in Manhattan. The staff only drive when the item is too large like a flat screen tv.

Amazon also propose drone delivery methods recently, and itis authorized by Amazon Prime Air which indicates that the unmanned aircraft were used track the customer’s location via their smartphone

The drones will be able to transmit the information concerning weather and traffic to each other and refresh their flight paths.

There is also another new Prime service trailed by Amazon which allows customers to have t heir orders dispatched directly to their car boots. But it is only able to Audi drivers in Germany at the present.