Debenhams announces axing of ‘hundreds’ of staff the day after Mike Ashley loses bid to launch inquiry into department store’s finances Debenhams announced three weeks ago that it would not reopen five stores Brands owned by Frasers Group include Sports Direct, Lillywhites & Jack Wills About 90 of Debenhams’ stores are due to resume trading in … Read more
Retail giant Amazon has today come under heavy fire for selling scores of books promoting bogus cancer cures. Cancer experts have today accused the billion-pound company of preying on the vulnerable who are desperate for a remedy. More than 3,000 titles are listed on the site under ‘cancer cures’, including ones endorsing unproven CBD oil … Read more
Hundreds of quarantine-fatigued New Yorkers ignored lockdown orders not to drink outside of bars and restaurants in the city Monday. Mayor Bill de Blasio has threatened to dispatch the NYPD to crackdown on the flagrant defiance. Residents in the Big Apple who’ve grown tired of largely isolating inside their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic congregated at a … Read more
Airlines including Delta and United have placed their aircraft in storage in a so-called ‘boneyard’ in the desert for with flight operations cut to around 5% of normal operations due to the coronavirus . Delta Air Lines have parked their planes at Pinal Airpark 90 miles south of Phoenix. The dry desert air helps to … Read more
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland announce 63 more coronavirus deaths on the first Saturday since lockdown was eased – taking the UK’s total fatalities to 34,061 By Connor Boyd Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 14:10 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 14:11 BST, 16 May 2020 Britain today recorded another 63 coronavirus deaths, taking the UK’s official … Read more
Amazon repurposes drone division to have workers make hundreds of thousands of face shields that the company intends to sell to frontline workers at a lower price than competitors Amazon is repurposing its drone division to make face shields The shields will be sold at-cost and will be ready in the next few weeks It’s … Read more
With the possibility of winter holidays clouded with uncertainty, desperate holiday companies are slashing prices by hundreds of pounds to secure bookings. Tui has dropped the cost of one ten-night break in the Maldives starting on November 29 by £400. Two weeks ago the firm was advertising, through price-comparison site TravelSupermarket, an all-inclusive stay for … Read more
Britain today declared 626 more coronavirus deaths, including a six-week-old baby who is thought to be Britain’s youngest known victim, taking the UK’s official fatality toll past 31,000 on the 75th anniversary of VE day. Environment Secretary George Eustice revealed the figures, which include fatalities in all settings, at tonight’s Downing Street press briefing, where he … Read more
Britain has announced another 346 coronavirus deaths today in a nearly 50 per cent drop in fatalities announced last Saturday, taking the UK’s official death toll to 31,587. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps revealed the figures, which include fatalities in all settings, at tonight’s Downing Street press briefing, where he also announced public transport will be shrunk … Read more
Boris Johnson tonight claimed the UK is testing ‘literally hundreds of thousands of people every day’ Boris Johnson tonight claimed the UK will test ‘literally hundreds of thousands of people every day’ as it moves towards finally leaving lockdown – despite the government failing to hit its daily target of 100,000 swabs for eight days … Read more