Land Securities hit by £1.4bn loss after lockdowns left properties empty and hammered rent income By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 18 May 2021 Most of Land Securities premises – including Trinity Leeds shopping centre (pictured) have closed or unoccupied for months One of … Read more
Five thousand shops shut due to coronavirus lockdowns and national vacancy rate is now 14 per cent, research reveals Almost 1 in 5 stores closed in the hardest hit shopping centres and parts of UK National vacancy rate is now 14 per cent the British Retail Consortium warned Expert warns situation could worsen as protections … Read more
Glenn Greenwald has speculated that coronavirus lockdowns could have contributed to the armed robbery that saw him bound and held at gunpoint for an hour at his farm in Brazil last month. The journalist, who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting about government surveillance programs based on leaks … Read more
Mark Wright made a heartfelt speech on his Heart Evening Show on Tuesday, as the UK marked one year of lockdown. The former TOWIE star, 34, became emotional on the air as he spoke about how his family has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, namely losing his uncle Edward to the virus earlier this month. … Read more
The Prime Minister’s view that the third wave of COVID evident in Europe may ‘wash up on our shores’ could well be correct. However depressing that prospect is, the UK should not be blown off course as we plan our route out of lockdown. As a scientist, I learned a long time ago that getting … Read more
The devastating impact of lockdowns on disadvantaged children is laid bare today in research showing they were twice as likely to struggle with home schooling. In the week of the anniversary of the first Covid school closures, the figures show one in five poorer pupils did not cope and many spent some days doing no work … Read more
Almost three-quarters of EU countries are experiencing spiralling Covid infection rates, forcing vast swathes of the continent back into lockdown. As a third wave sweeps across Europe, Britons were yesterday warned that foreign summer holidays are ‘extremely unlikely’. In France alone, 21 million people awoke yesterday to a fresh draconian lockdown. Millions more in Italy, Germany, … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Lockdowns take the fizz out of Fevertree shares after pub and restaurant closures see sales fall flat By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 18 March 2021 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 18 March 2021 Shares in Fevertree plunged after the closure of bars during the pandemic took the fizz from … Read more
H&M bounces back as lockdowns ease: Sales rise as world’s second-biggest clothing retailer reopens hundreds more stores By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:57 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 15 March 2021 SALES at H&M rose in the first half of March as coronavirus restrictions started to unwind across Europe. … Read more
While the coronavirus pandemic rose to new heights in the U.S., the ‘silent epidemic’ of opioid overdose deaths worsened amid lockdowns, new research suggests. Opioid deaths increased by nearly a quarter in Cook County, Illinois – the county where Chicago is located – during an 11-week stay-at-home order from late March to May, 2020, researchers … Read more