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Despite its amazing vaccine credentials, GlaxoSmithKline has not had a good war against Covid-19. It has been disappointing for chief executive Emma Walmsley that results from its collaboration with France’s Sanofi have fallen way behind, and it has dropped a partnership with China’s Clover. No one can accuse GSK of despairing. Along with its pre-tax … Read more
UK businesses that export to the EU are reportedly being encouraged by trade officials to set up hubs across the Channel so they can avoid post-Brexit disruption. Some firms claim they have been advised to set up subsidiary companies in the EU so they can avoid extra paperwork when exporting products into the trade bloc. … Read more
Post-Brexit hiccups ‘will add £1.50 to a bottle of fine wine’ Extra paperwork and haulage costs due to Brexit could add £1.50 to wine bottles Wine importers have warned the new export documents would push prices up Research found around 28m British consumers drink wine at least once a month By Glen Owen and James … Read more
For four tempestuous days and nights the trawler Sam of Ladram had been scooping up cuttlefish, 20 miles off our South-West coast. By Thursday morning the storm had abated, and I watched its five crew offload the inky catch — known as ‘black gold’ in these parts — in their home port of Brixham, Devon. … Read more
Post-Brexit shoppers are paying a third more for EU goods as red tape is confusing Continental retailers amid chaos at the ports. Tens of thousands of internet buyers are checking out without realising they will be asked to stump up extra VAT and customs duties when their parcel arrives. Delivery company DPD asked one shopper … Read more
Scottish seafood companies must now complete up to seven documents just for a single lorry carrying one species to export to the European Union following Brexit, bosses warned today. The papers that must be filled in are an export health certificate, catch certificate, customs export declaration, endangered species permit, common health entry document, storage document … Read more
Jersey potato farmers fly in workers from the Philippines to stop crops rotting in the fields and plug gap left by Romanian and Polish migrants after Brexit Crops have gone to waste this year due to a shortfall in seasonal farm pickers Usually around 98 per cent of seasonal pickers in the UK come from … Read more
Cargo freight from France and Germany to Britain is down 50 per cent on the same point last year amid post-Brexit turmoil at border points and ports, a London-based accountancy firm has warned. ‘The Government needs to step up now and explain how this is going to be resolved’, Alex Altmann, a partner and head … Read more
British fish are being left to rot because of a post-Brexit ‘brick wall of bureaucracy in French ports, fishing leaders have warned. They lashed out at new ‘obstacles’ slowing exports from Calais and Boulogne under the agreement made between the UK and EU in December. Some consignments have been delayed for up to 48 hours, … Read more
British patrol boat boards Irish trawler and stops it from fishing contested Rockall waters in first post-Brexit fisheries clash The Northern Celt was boarded and its skipper told he can no longer fish Skipper said a Scottish patrol vessel told him he couldn’t fish around Rockall Outcrop lies 260 miles west of Scotland’s Western Isles … Read more