While Britain’s biggest companies have wrestled with dividend payments, smaller firms have found the battle even harder. Hundreds have suspended, postponed or cut dividends and more are likely to follow. However, some jewels remain – firms that have rewarded shareholders and, crucially, look set to continue doing so. Among the FTSE 250 index, companies such … Read more
Campaigners warned that the coronavirus lockdown would trigger a mental health crisis among ‘traumatised’ asylum seekers in Glasgow weeks before a knifeman injured six people during a rampage in a hotel on Friday. Armed officers were scrambled at lunchtime yesterday to the Park Inn Hotel on West George Street, where immigrants were being housed during the … Read more
Back to the future for holidays? Photographs from Butlin’s hey-day reveal Britons enjoying glamorous granny and knobbly knees competition just as millions are told there will be no breaks abroad this year Photographer Barry Lewis captures British holidaymakers at Skegness Butlin’s holiday camp in summer 1982 Images included ‘Knobbly Knees’ competitions and Redcoat entertainers in … Read more