John Lewis to reopen with ‘affordable’ range designed to attract younger customers to the department store By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 9 April 2021 | Updated: 22:49 BST, 9 April 2021 John Lewis will reopen stores with an ‘affordable’ range designed to attract younger customers to the department store. The … Read more
Forty people became billionaires in 2021 due to their business activities fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Forbes has revealed. This year, the world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with 660 people joining the list who were not on it in 2020. Of those 660, the addition of 40 new billionaires on the list can be … Read more
Budget for the North: A Treasury outpost in Darlington, freeports in Liverpool, Teesside and Humber and an infrastructure bank in Leeds By Ruth Sunderland Business Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 3 March 2021 A raft of measures was announced in yesterday’s Budget to transform the … Read more
Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey will ‘make or break’ their fortunes in the US as they try ‘to woo and win over Americans’, experts say The programme will air immediately after CBS’s 60 Minutes show on March 7 Producer who used to work for Ms Winfrey said: ‘This is make or break for … Read more
With a net worth of about £136 billion, Elon Musk was this month crowned the richest man on the planet. It has been a dramatic rise to the top for Musk, with his wealth increasing fivefold in 2020, finally pushing Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who had held the title since 2017, into second place. The … Read more
His long and varied career included directing everything from James Bond to Coronation Street but director Michael Apted’s best loved work was his groundbreaking documentary Up series. The British filmmaker who died last week at his Los Angeles home at the age of 79, joined the projecy which began filming in May 1964 and followed the lives of a group … Read more
On the rebound?: There seems to be a little bit of blue sky on the horizon, despite the impact of the pandemic on the economy It has been a difficult year for most investors, especially those with a majority of their money in UK shares. The FTSE 100 Index, a barometer of the fortunes of … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex donned a dress by an African-American designer who focuses on ‘the health of people and the planet’ as she discussed ‘courageous leadership’ during a virtual summit yesterday. Meghan Markle, 39, joined Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Virtual Summit from her $14 million mansion in Santa Barbara and insisted that all social … Read more
Connor Walsh claims to have it all. A Lamborghini, the freedom of a £3 million mansion and a jet-setting job — all by the age of 25. Standing in front of his indoor swimming pool, he starts to tell his 138,000 Instagram followers how he did it. He struts over to his home bar and … Read more
They presided over one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history, in which up to 960 sub-postmasters had their lives ruined after they were wrongly accused of pilfering, fraud and false accounting. Staff were plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare after money seemed to vanish from their tills. They were pilloried even though the … Read more