Coronavirus UK: Small shopkeepers slam lockdown unfairness as they have to stay shut

Small shopkeepers have condemned lockdown unfairness which means they must close while major chains have customers queuing out on to the street. Household names are taking advantage of loopholes to continue trading, while at the same time benefitting from the cancellation of business rates worth billions of pounds. It comes after official data revealed retail … Read more

FCA calls on banks to rethink plans to shut branches in lockdown

FCA calls on banks to rethink plans to shut at least 300 branches by the end of 2021 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 January 2021 The FCA said it was concerned that closing bank branches at this time could have ‘significant consequences’ … Read more

Google is ‘overplaying their hand’ by threatening to shut down their search engine in Australia

By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter for MailOnline  An investigation into algorithms used by companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon has been launched today amid fears they are ‘manipulating’ lives and are used to ‘artificially change perceptions’ by cherry-picking what news internet users see. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will probe fears whether the … Read more

Edinburgh’s historic 183-year-old department store Jenners will shut costing 200 jobs

Farewell to the ‘Grand Old Lady’: Edinburgh’s historic 183-year-old department store Jenners will shut costing 200 jobs as bosses slam landlord for failing to reach a ‘fair agreement’ during lockdown Announcement was made was Frasers Group failed to reach lease agreement   House of Fraser department store is expected to cease trading on May 3  Shop … Read more

Pubs and restaurants could stay shut until JULY as councils are given power to extend lockdown rules

Pubs and restaurants could stay closed until July after Government chiefs chose to extend the lockdown powers given to councils. The specially-created powers, which give local authorities in England the ability to close venues and tape-off public areas due to coronavirus, were due to expire next week. But in a blow to million of Britons hoping … Read more

Emily Ratajkowski shut down claims she got lip injections while pregnant with her first child

Emily Ratajkowski shut down claims she got lip injections while pregnant as she admits it has been ‘weird’ to have her ‘body change so much’ By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 01:29 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 09:54 GMT, 24 January 2021 Emily Ratajkowski denied claims that she has undergone any cosmetic procedures to enhance … Read more

Now Spain denies claim it could be shut to holidaymakers this summer

Now Spain denies claim it could be shut to holidaymakers this summer as minister says it wants to welcome first tourists in spring Reports suggested Spain might not fully reopen to holidaymakers until autumn Reyes Maroto, minister of tourism, said the country would open by Spring Spain’s prime minister said vaccinations wouldn’t be finished until … Read more

Two rail lines shut in 1960s will reopen as transport officials pledge £800million

Two rail lines shut in 1960s will reopen as transport officials put £800million towards Bicester-Bletchley and Newcastle-Ashington projects Department for Transport said £760m will support next phase of East West Rail Reinstates services between Bicester, Oxfordshire and Bletchley shut in 1968 £34m boost is also going to old line between Newcastle and Ashington  By Daily Mail … Read more

Builders ask why sites are not shut and worry over ‘lack of Covid security’

A building site has been hit by an outbreak of coronavirus, as construction workers claim the government is ‘waiting for them to die’.   Several people at the India Buildings development in Liverpool, which 550 builders are currently refurbishing as a government tax headquarters, have been struck down with the virus.  This comes as labourers have … Read more

Shut In: Britain’s Fattest People viewers left ‘disgusted’ by mother overfeeding son

Viewers of Shut In: Britain’s Fattest People last night accused a ‘controlling’ mother of ‘abuse’ after it was revealed she sleeps in the same room as her 41st child and doesn’t want the 24-year-old to move out. AJ, 24, from Airdrie, Scotland, who identifies as non-binary, appeared on the Channel 4  programme last night alongside … Read more