Virgin Media is closing 53 stores permanently after lockdown restrictions are lifted with 300 shop staff offered alternative roles 341 members of staff will be offered new roles in at-home customer service Those who refuse or are not selected will be made redundant by Virgin Media The move follows Debenhams and Cath Kidson in disappearing … Read more
Pizza Express could permanently close scores of its 470 UK restaurants Pizza Express is grappling with a £1.1billion debt pile A restructuring process known as a CVA is one of several options By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 23 May 2020 Pizza Express … Read more
Great start, Mark! Livestream of Zuckerberg’s staff address on allowing HALF Facebook’s 50,000 employees to work permanently from home cuts OUT Zuckerberg’s livestream feed cut off while he was discussing the future of Facebook’s 50,000-person workforce Thursday morning During the video, Zuckerberg said he believes that by 2030 half of company employees will be working … Read more
Air France permanently axes its A380 fleet with immediate effect – and Emirates is set to reduce remaining superjumbo deliveries Air France initially scheduled the phase-out of the A380 for the end of 2022 It said that the coronavirus crisis accelerated its phase-out plans The carrier was the first European airline to operate the superjumbo … Read more
Donald Trump late Monday threatened to permanently stop funding of the World Health Organization and reconsider membership of the United States in the body. The president shared a four page letter written to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to Twitter, saying the organization needs to make ‘major substantive improvements within the next 30 days’ for US … Read more
A third of restaurant and pub bosses have said they expect to permanently close sites as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. A survey of more than 120 senior executives for pub, bar and restaurant companies revealed that 32% said they anticipated the need to shutter sites for good. The CGA business confidence survey, which was … Read more
John Lewis bosses are deciding which of their 50 stores will re-open after the coronavirus lockdown eases, with inside sources claiming it is ‘highly unlikely’ all of them will survive. The High Street giant was forced to close all 35 of its department stores and 15 smaller John Lewis At Home shops when Britain went … Read more
John Lewis bosses are deciding which of their 50 department stores will NEVER reopen their doors even after coronavirus lockdown ends with it being ‘highly unlikely’ all will survive Department store chain closed all 50 stores when UK locked down on March 23 It saw 400 staff made redundant and another 14,000 put on furlough … Read more
Love Island’s Laura Anderson is set to permanently move back to Scotland when lockdown is over after admitting she feels ‘lonely’ living in London By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 13:20 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 13:27 BST, 22 April 2020 She is currently isolating alone at her flat in London. But Laura Anderson … Read more
‘Graffiti Highway’ – Pennsylvania’s oddest tourist attraction is the latest casualty in the coronavirus pandemic. The .74- mile long abandoned stretch of Route 61 that runs through the ghost town of Centralia has been a local landmark since 1993 when tag artists saw a blank canvas on the forgotten length of cracked asphalt. Now the … Read more