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Just nine orders for commercial aircraft placed globally last month, making it worst August ever By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 27 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 27 September 2020 Just nine orders for commercial aircraft were placed globally last month, making it the worst August ever. The figure represented … Read more
Just off the M4 in South Wales, on a half-empty and dismal industrial estate, sits a huge white elephant. This edifice, a vast commercial unit next door to a call centre for the insurance firm GoCompare, covers an area the size of several football pitches and contains what an estate agent recently called ‘high-quality opportunities … Read more
Car factory production in the UK fell by a massive 45 per cent in August ,as weak demand for new motors during the Covid-19 pandemic continued to strangle the automotive industry. Just 51,039 new motors left UK assembly lines last month compared to 92,153 in the same month of 2019. That’s despite a predicted surge … Read more
UK house sales rose by 15.6 per cent in August after the Government introduced a temporary stamp duty holiday for residential properties worth up to £500,000, it has been revealed. Figures from HM Revenue and Customs found the move, which will last until March 31 2021, saw an estimated 81,280 sales take place in August and … Read more
Covid-19 cases are soaring among middle-aged people in England and have almost doubled in a fortnight as the outbreak continues to grow, official figures show. Public Health England (PHE) data reveals 23.4 cases are now diagnosed for every 100,000 people aged between 40 and 49 — up from 12.4 at the end of August. And coronavirus … Read more
Eat Out to Help Out drove restaurants back to pre-pandemic levels – but sector stayed lower overall because so many are still shut Total sales were still 12.2 per cent below last August’s levels as only 85 per cent of sites had reopened Pub groups had a more mixed trading performance, with like-for-like sales down … Read more
Halfords enjoys a roofbox-led recovery as surging popularity of staycations lifts its motoring sales but the retailer warns of tough times ahead still The Covid-19 lockdown led to more Britons buying cycles and taking bike trips CEO Graham Stapleton said Halfords ‘delivered a strong trading performance’ Like-for-like sales in the firm’s motoring business fell by … Read more
The number of people dying from coronavirus in the UK fell to a 24-week low in the final week of August, official data reveals. A total of 73 people died from Covid-19 in England and Wales in the week ending August 28, according to the Office for National Statistics. The dip marks a 24 per … Read more
Demand for new cars fell by 5.8 per cent in August as the market slipped back into decline, industry data shows. The return to the red was described as ‘disappointing’ following July’s 11 per cent surge in registrations as dealerships reopened and began to supply the pent-up demand from lockdown. Registrations in the first eight months … Read more
More than 100million half price meals were enjoyed under the ‘Rishi’s Dishes’ scheme to breathe new life into restaurants, pubs and cafes. It seems an astonishing 36million meals were eaten on Bank Holiday Monday alone in a final cut price blow out. On the face of it, that was three times more than on the … Read more