Do your duty and return furlough cash: Pay it back if you can, firms urged By James Salmon And Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 3 July 2020 Cash-rich companies that bounce back quickly from the coronavirus crisis have been urged to join the ‘national … Read more
Hand back furlough billions, firms are urged as builder Redrow becomes the latest to pledge to return the money By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:26 BST, 30 June 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 30 June 2020 Big companies are facing pressure to hand back taxpayer cash used to furlough their staff after … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted that people should still work from home ‘if possible’ despite calls for him to get millions more Britons back into the office to prevent thousands of businesses that rely on them going to the wall. Tory MP Steve Baker told MailOnline that the challenge faced by many businesses on high streets due … Read more
Teachers are urged to give up part of summer holiday to deal with ‘national emergency’ as Gavin Williamson ‘faces the chop’ after bungling reopening Former education secretaries say teachers should return early from summer holiday to prepare for new term Boris Johnson’s team are ‘livid’ with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson for bungling schools reopening Plans for … Read more
Supermarket bosses are being urged to commit to not selling imported food that is produced to lower standards after any trade deal with America is agreed. Ten major organisations including the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), Friends of the Earth and food and farming campaign Sustain have written to nine of Britain’s biggest supermarkets, … Read more
Britons are being urged to take shorter showers and avoid pre-rinsing before loading the dishwasher after fears water demand could soon outstrip supply. Despite the country’s reputation for being rainy and wet, a new report backed by the government’s Environment Agency calls for urgent water-saving action. The UK could face water shortages by the middle … Read more
Households urged to lock into cheap energy deals before prices rebound as lockdown ends By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 16 June 2020 Households are being urged to lock into cheap energy deals before prices rebound as the UK exits lockdown. Prices are at … Read more
New York City‘s most senior uniformed officer has said he does not believe racism taints the view of the NYPD, as he called for a halt to the throwing of projectiles at police and condemned the wave of looting. Terence Monahan, who knelt with protesters in Washington Square Park on Monday night, said it was … Read more
Britain is urged to stand up to China as Beijing flexes its muscles in Hong Kong in latest threat to democratic freedoms Campaigners warned new security law would see the former British territory’s citizens put at risk Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement called on Downing Street to stand up to Beijing over the sweeping changes Critics … Read more
People are being urged to stay away from beaches and beauty spots over the bank holiday weekend due to coronavirus, when England is expected to bask in warm, sunny weather. Pictures of crowds flocking to beaches in Brighton and Southend and various beauty spots around the UK in recent days have raised fears over social … Read more