Is your bank closing? Santander shutting 111 branches by the end of August

Is your bank closing? Santander shutting 111 branches by the end of August amid claims customers are switching to online By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 09:18 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 09:20 GMT, 25 March 2021 Santander has announced it will close 111 branches up and down the country by the end of … Read more

Is your store closing? John Lewis reveals eight shops shutting for good

The John Lewis Partnership has revealed the locations of eight stores due to permanently close as it ploughs on with a radical shake-up of its operations.  John Lewis stores in Aberdeen, Peterborough, Sheffield and York will stay shut, as will four ‘At Home’ shops in Ashford, Basingstoke, Chester and Tunbridge Wells.  The radical move puts … Read more

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Australian news outlets a day after shutting down pages

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Nine and News Corp just a day after banning news on its Australian site. The US social media giant blocked Australian users from seeing and sharing local news last Thursday, in response to a new law to make tech giants pay media companies for news content on their sites. … Read more

Cardi B jets out of LA as she heads to the Super Bowl… after shutting down plagiarism accusations 

Cardi B jets out of LA as she heads to the Super Bowl… after shutting down Up plagiarism accusations By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 21:07 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 21:07 GMT, 6 February 2021 Cardi B was spotted jetting out of LAX as she made her way to the Super Bowl … Read more

Sofia Richie and Jaden Smith grab dinner in Santa Monica after shutting down dating rumors

Sofia Richie has been linked to a few men since breaking things off with Scott Disick in the summer, most recently seen canoodling on the beach in Miami with billionaire shipping heir Gil Ofer.  On Friday evening however, the 22-year-old model daughter of Lionel Richie – who is reportedly ‘still single’ – was spotted grabbing … Read more

Robinhood backlash: Trading app is now facing 30 lawsuits for shutting down GameStop trading

The company behind the trading app Robinhood is facing more than 30 civil lawsuits from its users in relation to restrictions it imposed temporarily limiting purchases of certain stocks last week. Several groups of the app’s users have filed separate lawsuits against Robinhood Markets Inc. in federal courts, including in California, New Jersey, Texas and Florida. … Read more

Banks defy watchdog’s plea – and just carry on shutting branches

Banks defy watchdog Financial Conduct Authority’s plea – and just carry on shutting branches By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 13:17 GMT, 31 January 2021 The City regulator’s call for banks to reconsider their decision to axe branches during lockdown has fallen on deaf ears.  Barclays, … Read more

Shutting Britain’s borders at the start of coronavirus could have prevented major outbreak

Shutting Britain’s borders at the start of the coronavirus crisis may have lessened  the country’s catastrophic outbreak, another study has suggested.  Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) modelled the impact of international travel restrictions on the spread of Covid-19.  They looked at 162 countries and estimated the number of imported cases, … Read more

Roads bosses plan Brexit rehearsal by shutting M20 in Kent for four nights

Roads bosses plan Brexit rehearsal by shutting M20 in Kent for four nights as they test new system to deal with lorries queuing for Europe A movable reservation has been designed to keep traffic moving near the Port of Dover ahead of the new year Part of the M20 in Kent will be closed for … Read more