L&G threatens firms in bid to avoid ‘climate catastrophe’: Asset manager will sell their shares if they fail to hit green targets By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 14 October 2020 Britain’s biggest asset manager has stepped up its war on climate change, warning … Read more
EVGENY LEBEDEV: Coronavirus is creating a catastrophe for our wildlife as illegal wildlife trade sees rhinos, lions and giraffes poached By Evgeny Lebedev For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:55 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 01:52 BST, 19 July 2020 One night in central Kenya, I accompanied rangers on a patrol around the Ol … Read more
Elderly care home residents MUST be allowed see their families to prevent a ‘hidden catastrophe’, dementia charities warn Seven charities, including Alzheimer’s Society, have written to Matt Hancock Their letter urges the Health Secretary to allow more family to visit care homes They believe social isolation has hastened deterioration in dementia patients By Sophie Borland … Read more
Aerospace giant Airbus is to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK as the coronavirus pandemic causes ‘the gravest crisis’ the aviation industry has ever faced. The company is cutting nearly 15,000 jobs across its global operations to stay afloat as the coronavirus crisis rocks the air travel industry. The news is a huge blow to … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor Rishi Sunak will have to make the most of limited fiscal capacity if a jobs catastrophe is to be averted There are 9m employees on furlough The formal data we have so far on the Covid-19 shows a peak to trough fall of a whopping 25 per cent By Alex Brummer for … Read more
‘I’m still his dad and he’s still my son’: Catastrophe star Rob Delaney shares Father’s Day tribute to his late son Henry, two Rob’s son Henry was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016 The beloved toddler passed away, aged two, in January 2018 In December 2018, Rob revealed his wife Leah gave birth to … Read more
The first five months of SAGE meeting notes have revealed how scientists and health officials initially wrote-off coronavirus as another Swine flu before realising the error and desperately trying to catch up. The minutes, which cover 34 meetings held by the country’s top scientists and used in the government’s response to covid, were published for … Read more
Gatwick Airport has furloughed 90 per cent of its staff leaving nearby Crawley in crisis with reports that half of the town’s population facing being laid off. The airport employs 3,500 people directly, although a further 21,000 people work for 250 different firms based at the campus. Also, the airport supports a further 12,000 jobs … Read more