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Airlines axe tens of thousands of jobs in battle to survive as passenger numbers slump amid coronavirus crisis Virgin Atlantic offers all of its 10,000 employees voluntary redundancy in crisis Major airlines including Ryanair and Easyjet reveal drastic plan to ground flights British Airways owner IAG to cut three-quarters of flights in the next two months … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of British tourists and expats are stranded in Spain today after the country entered an unprecedented two-week lockdown. Panicked holidaymakers were last night scrambling to escape after the Spanish government declared a state of emergency over coronavirus. The drastic action came as the country’s death toll from the outbreak more than doubled … Read more
Donald Trump insisted Sunday that Americans experience daunting wait times and massive lines at airports remain calm, claiming the chaos is due to medical screening to prevent spread of the coronavirus. ‘We are doing very precise Medical Screenings at our airports,’ Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon. ‘Pardon the interruptions and delays, we are moving as quickly … Read more
Bad hair days are making thousands late for work: More than one in ten admit to being tardy because they are having problems with their locks A poll of 2,000 women found 12 per cent blame their hair for tardiness at work Some 20 per cent of women aged 25-34 said they were late due … Read more
CASH IN THE ATTIC: Why your tax discs could still be worth thousands By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 14 March 2020 Every week we give the low-down on the value of forgotten treasures that may be gathering dust at home. The tax disc was … Read more
Singing from the rooftops: Thousands of Italians in Milan and Rome take to balconies to sing and play instruments in bid cheer each other up amid coronavirus lockdown Families and neighbours in Rome, Milan, Palermo and other cities also crashed pots together in the flashmob Messages were circulated on social media to organise the second … Read more
A gang of brazen thieves who stripped a town park of its entire stock of daffodils were being hunted by cops today. Just seven out of an estimated 10,000 blooming daffodils were left standing after the flowers were cut at their stems in an ‘industrial scale’ operation earlier this week. The flowers, worth around £2,000, … Read more
Thousands of criminals in England and Wales owe £1.2billion in unpaid fees and fines as critics accuse offenders of ‘laughing in the face of the courts’ Money owed by criminals in England and Wales soared to a record £1.2billion Total amount imposed by courts has more than doubled in the last five years It means … Read more
An estimated 70,000 racegoers are expected to flock to Cheltenham Racecourse for Gold Cup day as Boris Johnson continues to refuse banning mass gatherings to combat the worsening coroanvirus pandemic. Over 60,000 spectators turned out today for the third day of the Cheltenham Festival – known as St Patrick’s Thursday – as dozens of revellers … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more