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Here are the top business, market, and economic stories you should be watching today in the UK, Europe, and abroad: Markets slide as US coronavirus cases rise The FTSE 100 opened sharply lower on Friday, following three days of gains during a turbulent week. The index (^FTSE) was down 3.6% …

Royal Mail have issued an update for online sellers who want to send mail from home during the Coronavirus crisis. They set out the ways in which you can self serve keeping contact to a minimum whilst continuing to despatch sales. “As one of the UK’s essential services, Royal Mail …

Royal Mail has warned it may have to cut back on postal services as increasing numbers of its staff take sick leave. The company, which provides letter and parcel delivery services to 30m homes and businesses, said it had taken measures to limit contact in the workplace and with customers …

Postal workers have called on Royal Mail and e-commerce sites to limit the amount of non-essential items they are being asked to deliver at a time when they are risking their health by turning up to work. Despite the UK government’s closure of non-essential retail outlets, e-commerce companies can continue …

Compared to their grandparents, the effects of Covid-19 on our children will be relatively small. But only in the short term. In the longer term, the effects of the pandemic – or more accurately its economic consequences – are likely to resemble those experienced by children who grew up in …

Buckingham Palace scrapped a national televised address about coronavirus from the Queen ‘for her own safety’ and to keep the airways clear for politicians and medical professionals, a royal expert has claimed. Last week Her Majesty, 93, issued a statement on the outbreak, saying the UK is ‘entering a period of …

Fury at Boris Johnson as it emerges No10 only asked on SUNDAY for research labs to lend the government vital coronavirus equipment – despite pledging mass testing a week ago Experts including the WHO say mass testing is crucial to combat coronavirus  Downing Street wrote to research labs on Sunday …

PUBLISHED: 13:23 25 March 2020 | UPDATED: 17:03 25 March 2020 Emma Lee The Norfolk Deli in Hunstanton is offering a delivery service. Picture: Chris Bishop Archant Lots of food and drink producers, shops and wholesalers are now offering click and collect and delivery services. Here are the ones we …

Salford community came together to help officers at Eccles Police Station after they ran out of essential cleaning equipment. Sergeant Mike Lawrence took to Facebook to post that the their department had a limited supply of a cleaning and protective gear to keep their staff and office free of infection …

  By Press Association 2020 HMS Prince of Wales The Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier has sailed back into its home port following a visit to Liverpool to allow the public to visit onboard. HMS Prince of Wales returned to Portsmouth Naval Base just over a month after it set …