Businesses are boarding up across New York City as special police units gear up to tackle looters and rioters and foreign countries are warning the few travelers who are not banned from entering the country to avoid it for fear of civil unrest after the election. Dozens of retailers in Manhattan, including stores on Fifth … Read more
A second lockdown will be the ‘final death blow’ for thousands of British businesses, industry leaders warned last night. As one leading economist predicted the lockdown will cost the UK £1.8billion per day, bosses of businesses from Waterstones to Rocco Forte Hotels lashed out at the ‘disastrous’ restrictions which could devastate the High Street. Economist … Read more
Businesses facing ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, boss of Confederation of British Industry Dame Carolyn Fairbairn warns By Ruth Sunderland And Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 Businesses are facing a ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, … Read more
Record number of businesses face Covid-19-induced insolvencies, with more than 500,000 firms on the brink of collapse By City & Finance Reporters For The Daily Mail Published: 22:17 GMT, 28 October 2020 | Updated: 22:18 GMT, 28 October 2020 A record number of businesses are on the brink of collapse due to the pandemic A … Read more
MPs have voted against Labour’s motion to extend free school meals over school holidays until Easter 2021, by 322 votes to 261 – a majority of 61. The division list numbers differ to those announced in the chamber, showing 319 no votes and 259 ayes. Here is the breakdown of the division list published after … Read more
Many Britons have long been resigned to the idea that 2020 will be the year they didn’t travel – with family breaks to the Med cancelled, weekend jaunts to European cities put off and far-flung escapes to balmy destinations filed under ‘future reference’. However, for those who rely on the success of the travel industry for … Read more
Rishi Sunak has warned a ‘blunt’ circuit-breaker national lockdown could cause ‘permanent damage,’ to UK jobs and firms. There are growing calls, particularly from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, for a two-week circuit breaker to be implemented as a means of slowing the Covid-19 infection rate. Manchester and Lancashire could well join Liverpool under Tier … Read more
Hospitality businesses in last ditch plea as brutal layoffs begin: Chancellor’s jobs scheme ‘no use to hospitality’ By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 Hospitality businesses will start making thousands of job cuts from tomorrow, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Pub … Read more
NYC threatens to SHUT non-essential businesses in neighborhoods where COVID-19 cases are on the rise – after the Big Apple records its highest spike in three months Six neighborhoods across Brooklyn and Queens are seeing concerning spikes in cases of COVID-19 The NYC Health Department is now threatening to shutter non-essential businesses in each of … Read more
Israel has closed all non-essential businesses, including open-air markets and limited prayer meetings after failing to bring down the highest Covid infection rate in the world. ‘Over the past two days, we’ve heard from experts that if we don’t take immediate and harsh measures, we’ll reach an abyss,’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night, … Read more