Video has emerged showing hundreds of people attended a community cricket match in a district of Leicester hardest hit by the resurgent Coronavirus. The organised game, in which two local teams competed for a trophy, was watched by large crowds, who did not appear to observe social distancing rules. The …
Read More »Boris Johnson news live: Follow latest updates as UK offer new route to citizenship for Hong Kongers
China: MPs demand economic policy change MPs have demanded that Britain reconsider its economic relationship with China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “We run to China to buy goods and to invest, it is time for us now to review every single programme here in the UK and around the free …
Read More »Rishi Sunak likely to raise taxes once economy gets back to ‘near normal’, Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts
Tax rises are likely to be ordered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak when the economy gets back to “near normal”, an economic watchdog predicted today. Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies, spoke out in the wake of Boris Johnson’s speech which pledged to fast-track construction schemes …
Read More »Kate Middleton beats Meghan Markle as royal lockdown influencer
Kate Middleton has remained the biggest royal influencer throughout lockdown, after overtaking Meghan Markle earlier this year. When the Duchess of Sussex, 38, first joined The Firm in 2017, the ‘Meghan Effect’ saw shoppers go wild for anything she wore – but her fashion influence dramatically declined since she has …
Read More »UK’s Royal Mail set to cut management jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
Royal Mail is all set to cut 2000 management jobs amid its struggle to battle the coronavirus pandemic. The British postal services company, established back in 1516, is now looking to sack one-fifth of the company’s management employees aiming to save £130m in costs. The coronavirus pandemic has taken a …
Read More »World Coronavirus Dispatch: LatAm deaths may hit 388,000 by Oct, says study
The death toll from the coronavirus in Latin America is expected to skyrocket to 388,300 by October, with Brazil and Mexico seen accounting for two-thirds of fatalities as other nations in the region contain their outbreaks, according to University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). …
Read More »John Menzies Ready for Takeoff as Lockdown Lifts
You have to sympathise at least a little with John Menzies (MNZS), which belatedly accepted that distributing newspapers and magazines was a dying industry and moved into the burgeoning field of air travel, handling luggage instead of printed paper. Alas, as we all know covid-19 has emptied the airports of …
Read More »Cash is Comforting, But a Terrible Investment
Sure, have some rainy day savings. And definitely don’t invest in anything so risky you won’t sleep at night. And please try and avoid those too-good-to-be-true products that promise wonderful returns but are really just scandals in the making. But, that aside, stop putting all your money in cash. Seriously. …
Read More »Coronavirus update: US records its highest daily infection rise in two months
The US has recorded a one-day total of 34,700 new COVID-19 cases, the highest in two months. Scores of migrants arriving in Somalia are telling United Nations workers every day that they are unaware of COVID-19. Meanwhile, South Africa’s mining industry has recorded 1,796 infections and six deaths. This story …
Read More »Breakingviews – Corona Capital: Chuck E. Cheese, Pret A Manger
DALLAS/LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) – Corona Capital is a daily column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights. A Chuck E. Cheese restaurant is pictured in Oceanside, California, U.S., January 18, 2017. LATEST – CEC Entertainment – Pret A Manger MAY I BE …
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