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Rishi Sunak examining plans for a £3billion scheme to help a MILLION small business owners including plumbers, electricians and musicians unable to get furlough cash or company loans The Chancellor is looking at proposals for a Directors Income Support Scheme Would pay sole directors up to 80 per cent of lost profits for three months … Read more
Travellers arriving in the UK will be able to present negative PCR or lateral flow Covid tests as proof that they do not have coronavirus. Grant Shapps has said nobody will be able to depart for Britain by plane, train or ferry unless they present a ‘recognised’ test result at check-in along with a valid … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Arsenal take out a £120m loan through Bank of England’s Covid scheme to help them cope with the impact of the pandemic – despite splashing out £45m on one player in October and paying Mesut Ozil £350k-a-week but not playing him Arsenal announced they have borrowed £120million from the Bank of England … Read more
A ban on takeaway pints during lockdown could be the ‘death knell for many pubs’, beer campaigners say, as they warn a £9,000 handout is ‘nowhere near enough’. Boris Johnson last night announced new nationwide coronavirus restrictions, which ban pubs and restaurants in England from selling alcohol for takeaway or delivery. Camra chairman Nik Antona today insisted … Read more
The London Resort, which has been dubbed ‘Britain’s Disneyland’, has claimed that it will generate £50billion for the UK economy during its first 25 years of operation. The park, which will be based in Kent between Gravesend and Dartford on the Swanscombe Peninsula, is set to open in 2024. The area on which the resort … Read more
Ambitious hopes the UK could vaccinate 24million people against Covid by Easter might not be enough to end the pandemic, scientists warned today. In an attempt to soften the blow of putting three-quarters of England under Tier 4 lockdowns today, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson claimed the approval of Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s game-changing jab opened the … Read more
FTSE closes down 0.7% or 47 points at 6,556 after approval for Oxford’s Covid vaccine and vote passing post-Brexit deal were overshadowed by three quarters of UK being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown FTSE 100 index of biggest UK firms down by 0.71% or 47 points at 6,556 today Fall comes despite PM’s post-Brexit EU trade … Read more
UK economy bounced back by 16 per cent between July and September but national debt is the highest for 60 years and GDP is almost NINE PER CENT below where it was at the end of 2019 UK GDP increased by an estimated 16 per cent between July and September That represents the largest quarterly … Read more
Heathrow passenger numbers were 88 per cent down during second lockdown with SIX MILLION less flyers using the airport than last November Last month Heathrow airport saw an 88% drop in passenger numbers from 2019 Six million fewer passengers travelled through the airport, said chief executive He warned the British economy was suffering as a result … Read more
What are the EU’s No Deal contingency plans? Air travel and safety Air traffic will be ‘interrupted’ if there are no contingency measures in place on air transport at the end of the transition period, the commission says. It has proposed a measure to allow the provision of certain air services between the UK and … Read more