Record number of firms on the brink in the first quarter of the year

Record number of firms on the brink in the first quarter of the year, under pandemic pressure By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 April 2021 | Updated: 02:14 BST, 22 April 2021 In the third lockdown, 93,000 firms’ finances weakened to the point of ‘significant financial distress’, according to Begbies … Read more

Primark will repay £121m in furlough cash after ‘record sales’ since reopening this month 

Primark will repay £121m in furlough cash and hand shareholders £49m in dividends after ‘record sales’ since reopening this month Primark will hand back £121 million from government’s job retention scheme Comes despite 17% slump in sales and drop in operating profits to £319 million Company’s 188 stores across UK have been closed for months due to lockdown … Read more

Bec Hewitt sets the record straight on rumours she is returning to Home and Away

She rose to fame on Home and Away playing Hayley Smith Lawson from 1998 to 2005. And on Tuesday, Bec Hewitt, 37, set the record straight about making a comeback on the long-running soap, almost 16 years since leaving. Kyle and Jackie O show co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson asked the actress if there was any truth to … Read more

China fines e-commerce giant Alibaba a record £2bn for abusing dominant market position for years

China slapped a record 18 billion yuan (£2billion) fine on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Saturday, after an anti-monopoly probe found the e-commerce giant had abused its dominant market position for several years. The fine, about 4 per cent of Alibaba’s 2019 domestic revenues, comes amid a crackdown on technology conglomerates and indicates China’s antitrust … Read more

China fines e-commerce giant Alibaba a record £2bn for abusing dominant market position for years

China slapped a record 18 billion yuan (£2billion) fine on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Saturday, after an anti-monopoly probe found the e-commerce giant had abused its dominant market position for several years. The fine, about 4 per cent of Alibaba’s 2019 domestic revenues, comes amid a crackdown on technology conglomerates and indicates China’s antitrust … Read more

Married At First Sight receives record amount of complaints

The seventh season of Married At First Sight Australia is on track to become the most complained about season of show.   The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has received a total of 54 official complaints so far.  ‘A significant proportion of the complaints alleged the program included personally abusive interchanges between participants through gaslighting, social, verbal … Read more

Average UK house prices hit record high of £254,606 in March, Halifax data shows

House prices hit a record high of £254,606 on average in March, according to research from a leading High Street bank. Figures from Halifax show house prices have jumped by 1.1% month-on-month. Across the UK, the average price is around £15,000 higher since the start of the national coronavirus lockdowns in March 2020 – equating … Read more

Brazil’s daily Covid death toll hits record 4,249

Brazil has recorded its largest one-day death toll of the Covid pandemic so far after 4,249 people perished from the disease in just 24 hours on Thursday.  The figure tops the country’s previous one-day record, set just 48 hours earlier, which was 4,195. It brings the country’s death total to 345,025 – the second-highest in … Read more

Rolls-Royce sees first quarter sales rise to highest on record

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars sees sales rise to the highest in its 116-year history as well-heeled buyers snap up the luxury vehicles despite the pandemic Luxury car group Rolls-Royce Motor Cars delivered 1,380 cars in the first quarter China market particularly strong and orders for bespoke cars also on the up   By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: … Read more