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The brave entrepreneurs founding new firms from the ashes of Covid

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British businesses have faced some of their darkest days this year, as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have battered the economy. In a poll conducted before the November lockdown, one in seven enterprises told the Office for National Statistics they had little or no confidence of surviving the next few months. Meanwhile, 1.69 million people were unemployed … Read more

Clarks shoes criticised for £13m payout to founding family before more than 1,000 job losses

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Clarks shoes criticised for £13m payout to founding family before more than 1,000 job losses Family shareholders were paid £13.4m of dividends over two years  This was as the company racked up losses of £114.2m and made job losses Unions representing Clarks’ shop workers lashed out at the payments  By Tom Witherow For The Daily … Read more

Four Seasons founding member Tommy DeVito dies at 92 from coronavirus

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Four Seasons founding member Tommy DeVito, known for the songs Walk Like A Man and Big Girls Don’t Cry, dies at 92 from the coronavirus DeVito has passed away at the age of 92 from complications of the coronavirus  The singer died in Las Vegas on Monday evening with family and friends nearby He was … Read more

Widespread Panic founding drummer Todd Nance dead at 57

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Widespread Panic founding drummer Todd Nance dead at 57… following years of suffering from ‘chronic illness’  Nance passed away in Athens, Georgia, ‘from sudden and unexpectedly severe complications of a chronic illness,’ his family wrote in a statement posted on the band’s website and social media platforms The Tennessee native native reportedly had been struggling … Read more

Lockdown lifesavers from a silver superwoman: FEMAIL’S founding editor, 87, shares her blueprint

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She’s the feminist pioneer and author who famously told women that life was ‘too short to stuff a mushroom’. Now Shirley Conran, who launched the Daily Mail’s Femail section in 1968, is applying that same no-nonsense approach to life in lockdown. Like some 3.8 million other over 65s, Shirley lives alone, and has now endured … Read more

George Woodhouse, Mail on Sunday founding member, dies aged 84

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George Woodhouse, one of The Mail on Sunday founding members, dies aged 84 By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 02:13 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 02:13 BST, 19 April 2020 George Woodhouse, one of the founding fathers of The Mail on Sunday, has died after a short illness, aged 84.  He was hired by … Read more