Give Opportunity this Christmas November 25, 2020 This Christmas City A.M. is once again partnering with Opportunity International, an organisation close to our heart. This brilliant charity helps people all over the world to build and sustain independent, prosperous lives by providing them with access to financial services and training. In doing so they can buy supplies, tools and equipment that will [...]
British Gas workers turn up the heat on strike threat for up to 20,000 staff November 25, 2020 British Gas workers have cranked up the heat on potential strike action over the Christmas season unless it “takes the gun off table’, the GMB trade union has said. Thousands of GMB union members will vote on industrial action in a ballot opening on 1 December, which could see engineers refusing to fix British Gas [...]
London to buck UK trend with uptick in 2020 housing sales completions November 25, 2020 London is expected to buck the national trend to record an uptick in housing sales completions this year, according to the latest research. Completed sales across the UK are expected to fall six per cent compared to last year, an improvement on the original forecast of a 15 per cent drop, as the housing market [...]
Breaking: Three households will be able to mix for five days over Christmas November 24, 2020 Up to three households will be able to mix indoors during a five-day Christmas relaxation of lockdown rules, UK leaders have agreed. Under new plans, members of up to three different households will be able to form an exclusive bubble between 23 and 27 December. That will not include hospitality settings, though members of three [...]
Sadiq Khan: ‘Right and sensible’ to put London in Tier 2 after lockdown November 24, 2020 London is set to be placed under Tier 2 restrictions after the national lockdown ends next week, Sadiq Khan has said. The mayor said placing the capital back in Tier 2 would be the “right and sensible decision”, but added the final verdict would be made on Thursday based on the latest Covid-19 figures. Prime [...]
Editorial: London, like Josef K, awaits its sentence November 24, 2020 On Thursday, we will find out whether the death warrant for thousands of London’s businesses, mainly in hospitality, will be signed. But, like Josef K in Kafka’s Trial, those businesses are left clueless of what their future depends upon. London will enter Tier 1, Tier 2 or Tier 3 of the new restrictions next week. [...]
Wall Street hits record high on vaccine hopes and Biden transition November 24, 2020 US stocks pushed to record highs this afternoon as investors welcomed positive and signs that US President Donald Trump is accepting his election loss. The Dow Jones climbed 1.6 per cent to set a new record high, trading above 30,000 points for the first time. The gains mean it is on track to cement its [...]
The government is ignoring Covid science and hospitality is paying the price, says D&D boss November 24, 2020 Des Gunewardena is Chairman and CEO of D&D London, the restaurant group behind brands including Bluebird, Angler, 14 Hills and Coq d’Argent. Here he lays out where the government has failed the hospitality sector and gives a plan for how it could still salvage something from the most important month of the year. So we’ve finally [...]
Covid-19: Travel quarantine restrictions to be relaxed in time for Christmas November 24, 2020 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has scrapped blanket travel quarantine restrictions in time for Christmas so that people can travel to high-risk "red list" countries to visit relatives.
Think ‘carefully’ before travelling at Christmas, warns Shapps November 24, 2020 People should think “carefully” about travelling over the Christmas period, the transport secretary warned today, because of “limitations” on the UK’s railways. Speaking to the BBC, Grant Shapps said that people should “take a close look at any proposed journeys and routes they are taking” amid fears of overcrowding. “I would appeal to people to [...]