BUSINESS LIVE: Car dealer Lookers warns of suspected fraud; Tesco accounting probe ends

BUSINESS LIVE: Car dealer Lookers warns of suspected fraud; Tesco accounting probe ends; Spread-betting firm Plus 500 reports spike in customers By This Is Money Published: 07:56 BST, 8 June 2020 | Updated: 07:59 BST, 8 June 2020 Car dealership Lookers has warned it might have to suspend its shares after the business discovered a … Read more

Coronavirus UK: ‘Ill’ Business Secretary Alok Sharma tested

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has been placed in isolation having felt ill earlier today in the House of Commons chamber.  He has been tested for Covid-19, a spokesperson confirmed.  According to a statement from his department: ‘Secretary of State Alok Sharma began feeling unwell when in the chamber delivering the second reading of the Corporate … Read more

Business Secretary Alok Sharma is tested for Covid-19

Business Secretary Alok Sharma is isolating and being tested for coronavirus after falling ill in the Commons this afternoon By Darren Boyle for MailOnline Published: 20:21 BST, 3 June 2020 | Updated: 20:25 BST, 3 June 2020 Business Secretary Alok Sharma has been placed in isolation having felt ill earlier today in the House of … Read more

Business Secretary Alok Sharma gets muddled over coronavirus testing

Business Secretary Alok Sharma gets muddled over coronavirus testing as he claims 115,000 people were screened yesterday – despite government not having released figures for a week Business Secretary Alok Sharma grilled on coronavirus testing during interviews He initially claimed that 115,000 people were for the disease tested yesterday  Later admitted the government has not … Read more

Britain reopens for business: Huge queues form at IKEA as customers return

The UK’s coronavirus lockdown eases today with millions able to see friends and family, more businesses can reopen and children will return to primary school for the first time in more than 10 weeks.      Huge queues formed outside Ikea stores in Nottingham, Reading and Essex today as the Government urged Britons to act ‘sensibly’ as they enjoy … Read more

Pubs reopen, beauty salons back in business and travel allowed: restrictions lifted in Australia

The federal government has announced a three-phase plan to ease coronavirus restrictions in the coming months, with the states and territories to determine their own timings. NEW SOUTH WALES NSW – What you can do now:  * Pubs, restaurants and cafes up to 50 people subject to the four-square metre rule, patrons must be seated … Read more

We ditched high-flying jobs at BA to start our Big Bakes business

In normal times when it comes to interacting outside of work with colleagues, many might go to the pub and get a drink, or even become friends. But going from running the office bake-off competition to becoming business partners takes things a step further than most. That’s what two former senior employees of British Airways … Read more

Gee, Napa’s got bottle! Six months after the fires, it’s business as usual for its sunny wineries

The town of Paradise in California‘s Butte County was all but completely wiped out as the state endured its worst-ever wildfires in September last year. But they are nothing if not resilient, these Californians, and the message in Butte and the grape-growing territory heading south-west to Napa Valley is that it’s business as usual. This … Read more

Frequent flyer reveals what it’s like to fly business from Heathrow to NYC during Covid-19 crisis

A frequent flyer live-blogged his business class trip from Heathrow Airport to New York via Amsterdam to ‘demystify what it’s actually like out there during Covid-19‘ – and it makes for fascinating reading. The blogger, Gilbert Ott, published the account to his travel tips site, God Save The Points, revealing what it was like in … Read more

Rishi Sunak ‘working on Project Birch business bailout’

Rishi Sunak ‘working on Project Birch business bailout which could see Government act as lender of “last resort” to stop key British firms from going under because of coronavirus’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak is apparently drawing up plans to save important firms Could see tailored bailouts where ‘viable companies have exhausted all options’ Government could act … Read more