Why keeping in touch with customers is key for small firms in lockdown

Why keeping in touch with customers is key for small businesses. EMMA JONES on how to stay productive and thrive during lockdown Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation gives tips on how small business owners can make the most of lockdown – and be prepared for the reopening of society Keeping in touch with customers and … Read more

Study shows that having new and diverse experiences is the ‘key to happiness’

Variety IS the spice of life: Study shows the ‘key to happiness’ is visiting more places and having new and diverse experiences GPS signal from phones of 132 participants was tracked by researchers in the US They found those visiting more places reported higher levels of happiness More experiences were associated with activity in brain … Read more

Pubs hoping MPs hold key to lockdown rent holidays

Pubs, cafes and restaurants on brink of collapse send symbolic key to their MPs to protest that landlords are charging rent throughout lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:05 BST, 18 May 2020 | Updated: 00:05 BST, 18 May 2020 Pubs, cafes and restaurants on the brink of collapse have sent a … Read more

London’s key coronavirus R rate was already falling BEFORE lockdown

The coronavirus infection rate in London was already falling before the country went into lockdown, data shows.  Analysis by Public Health England and Cambridge University calculated the crucial reproduction rate, known as the R, peaked at 3 in the capital in late February. But the R – the average number of people each COVID-19 patient infects … Read more

NASA claims initial motion is key to ensuring a real-life WARP ENGINE is in drive not reverse 

A NASA engineer has claimed that getting a ‘running start’ would be the key to ensuring that a real-life, Star Trek-style warp engine is in drive, and not reverse. In Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, our Universe comes with a speed limit — with nothing able to travel faster than the speed of light. … Read more

The key economic statistics that highlight the challenges the UK faces

By any stretch of the imagination, the economic data that has been part of the top two or three nightly news items for the last six weeks has been colossally dreadful. Then bright and early this morning we saw the Bank of England warn UK GDP will slump by 14 per cent this year as … Read more

Sopranos star Joseph Gannascoli raises $25,000 to feed key workers and hospital staff

Sopranos star Joseph Gannascoli raises $25,000 to feed key workers and hospital staff in initiative to support small restaurants in New York By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:27 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 11:14 BST, 5 May 2020 Sopranos star Joseph Gannascoli has raised more than $25,000 to feed key workers and hospital … Read more

Classrooms of the future: Key workers’ children sit 6ft apart

Schoolchildren will be told to sit 6ft apart with strict social distancing measures in place in playgrounds and canteens as they readjust to life after lockdown.   One in five children will be urged to return to the classroom from next week as part of a gradual reopening of schools. They are expected to follow stringent … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson leads minute’s silence for key workers

Key workers who have lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic were remembered today in a UK-wide silence. People across Britain paused for a minute at 11am in sombre tribute to the sacrifice made by those on the front line, in roles ranging from doctors and nurses to carers, cleaners, porters and bus drivers. Prime … Read more

Aldi kicks blind key worker out for shopping with his girlfriend

Blind key worker, 54, gets thrown out of Aldi for shopping with his partner while buying supplies for his elderly neighbours because he was breaking supermarket’s one-adult-per-trip coronavirus rule Liverpool City Council worker Christy Lynch was asked to leave Aldi in Thornton   His partner was there because he is blind in one eye and partly blind … Read more