BREAKING NEWS: Arsenal take out a £120m loan through Bank of England’s Covid scheme to help them cope with the impact of the pandemic – despite splashing out £45m on one player in October and paying Mesut Ozil £350k-a-week but not playing him Arsenal announced they have borrowed £120million from the Bank of England … Read more
The London Resort, which has been dubbed ‘Britain’s Disneyland’, has claimed that it will generate £50billion for the UK economy during its first 25 years of operation. The park, which will be based in Kent between Gravesend and Dartford on the Swanscombe Peninsula, is set to open in 2024. The area on which the resort … Read more
Ambitious hopes the UK could vaccinate 24million people against Covid by Easter might not be enough to end the pandemic, scientists warned today. In an attempt to soften the blow of putting three-quarters of England under Tier 4 lockdowns today, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson claimed the approval of Oxford University/AstraZeneca‘s game-changing jab opened the … Read more
FTSE closes down 0.7% or 47 points at 6,556 after approval for Oxford’s Covid vaccine and vote passing post-Brexit deal were overshadowed by three quarters of UK being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown FTSE 100 index of biggest UK firms down by 0.71% or 47 points at 6,556 today Fall comes despite PM’s post-Brexit EU trade … Read more
UK economy surged by 16 per cent between July and September – the highest rise ever recorded – but still not enough to offset an even bigger fall between April and June with GDP almost NINE PER CENT below where it was at the end of 2019 UK GDP increased by an estimated 16 per … Read more
What are the EU’s No Deal contingency plans? Air travel and safety Air traffic will be ‘interrupted’ if there are no contingency measures in place on air transport at the end of the transition period, the commission says. It has proposed a measure to allow the provision of certain air services between the UK and … Read more
What are the sticking points in Brexit talks? FISHING The UK has insisted that it will take back control of its coastal waters from the end of the transition period. But the EU was demanding its fleets maintain previous levels of access – with Emmanuel Macron under particular pressure from the French fishing industry. … Read more
UK economy was ALREADY slowing before blanket lockdown in England with growth of just 0.4% in October leaving it 8% smaller than before pandemic – amid fears it has since gone into reverse again UK economy has grown for six months running according to official statistics Office for National Statistics says it has grown by … Read more
Boris Johnson has arrived in Brussels to hold make or break Brexit trade talks with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen this evening. The Prime Minister was spotted leaving 10 Downing Street late this afternoon before then flying to the Belgian capital where he was pictured arriving at the UK ambassador’s residence just after 6pm. He … Read more
Rental prices in the countryside are continuing to surge as more city-dwellers flee to rural areas across the UK amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a survey carried out by Zoopla, the real estate company found that interest for rental properties in Mole Valley in Surrey had increased by 74 per cent while Elmbridge, also in … Read more