Amazon to suspend third-party delivery service due to coronavirus April 8, 2020 Amazon will suspend its third-party delivery service in the US as it diverts resources to deal with a huge surge in orders from its own customers. Amazon Shipping, which competed with UPS and Fedex, allowed the ecommerce giant’s drivers to pick up packages from businesses and deliver them to customers — an alternative to shipping [...]
Coronavirus: Global fashion industry set to contract 30 per cent this year April 8, 2020 The global fashion industry is set to contract by up to 30 per cent this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to the latest research. The luxury personal goods sector, including jewellery, watches and beauty products, is set to shrink by 35 to 39 per cent. Eight out of 10 listed fashion companies in [...]
Airlines set to save millions as air traffic control payments deferred April 8, 2020 The UK’s airlines could save tens of millions of pounds a month after European governments took steps to allow them to defer payments for using UK and European airspace for 14 months. The new measures, which were agreed by air traffic body Eurocontrol’s member states, will cover the period between February and May 2020. In [...]
US stocks rise on hopes coronavirus is peaking April 8, 2020 US stocks rose at the open as investor confidence grew on hopes that the coronavirus outbreak was peaking. The Dow Jones was up 0.9 per cent in early trading while the S&P 500 was up 0.8 per cent. The Nasdaq was 0.8 per cent higher. All three had finished marginally in the red yesterday. European [...]
Do right by Londoners, I’ll do right by you April 8, 2020 Crisis reveals character, something I witnessed many times during my years as a youth worker on the rough streets around Ladbroke Grove. When times are tough we find out who we truly are, both as people and as communities. Right now, times are tough. The toughest they’ve been since the Second World War. The coronavirus [...]
Coronavirus: British Gas to furlough 3,800 staff April 8, 2020 British Gas has become the latest of the UK’s energy suppliers to take advantage of the government’s job retention scheme, furloughing around 3,800 employees as the firm scales back operations due to coronavirus. The UK’s largest household energy supplier, which is owned by services giant Centrica, said furloughed employees will be paid 100 per cent [...]
Coronavirus deaths in England rise by 828 to 6,483 April 8, 2020 A further 828 coronavirus patients have died in England, taking the total to 6,483. The figures, released by NHS England, are up from the 758 deaths recorded yesterday. It marks a continuing growth in the daily death toll ahead of the Easter weekend, which health officials have warned could bring the peak of the epidemic [...]
Tesla to furlough workers and cut salaries due to coronavirus April 8, 2020 Tesla will furlough all non-essential employees and roll out salary cuts after it was forced to shut its factories in the US due to the coronavirus outbreak. Employees who cannot work from home and have not been assigned to critical work will be furloughed, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. Workers who are [...]
Brexit trade talks to continue virtually as UK sticks to 2020 deadline April 8, 2020 The UK’s chief Brexit negotiator David Frost will speak with his Brussels counterpart Michel Barnier next week to outline a timetable for trade negotiations. Frost and Barnier will speak on Wednesday with the aim of setting out dates to carry on negotiations remotely through April and May. There has been much speculation that the UK’s [...]
Man jailed for stealing face masks from London’s King’s College Hospital April 8, 2020 A man has been jailed for three months after he was caught stealing face masks from a hospital in south London. Lerun Hussain, 34, was sentenced to 12 weeks at Croydon Magistrates’ Court today following the incident at King’s College Hospital. Police were called to the hospital in Denmark Hill at around 11.20am on Sunday [...]
