Sinking back into a socially-distanced leather seat at a safe distance from other customers and having to slip off your mask to tuck into the popcorn: going to the pictures is certainly different post-lockdown. At the Vue cinema in the Westfield shopping centre in west London, film fans are greeted by a masked staff member … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Those involved in Hut Group’s float should have been more focused on making sure the upcoming offer was something investors could fully trust By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 No one should expect much in the way of governance … Read more
Melrose set to make sweeping job cuts at GKN’s aerospace business by Christmas after losses spiralled in first six months of the year due to Covid-19 By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 Melrose Industries is set to make sweeping job cuts … Read more
John Lewis to sell more pyjamas, comfortable clothes and high-end sportswear from Stella McCartney in bid to ‘modernise’ its brands By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 John Lewis will sell more pyjamas, comfortable clothes and high-end sportswear from Stella McCartney in … Read more
Energy regulator hands SSE £2m fine for power plant error By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 Ofgem has fined SSE £2m fine for a power plant error. The energy regulator punished the provider for failing to publish information that is likely … Read more
The economy will nosedive until Covid testing is brought in at borders, furious business chiefs said last night. Demanding urgent action from Boris Johnson, they warned 14-day quarantine was crippling travel, wrecking trade prospects and jeopardising the recovery. The chief executive of Heathrow accused the Government of ‘doing nothing to protect jobs’. ‘What makes me … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 3 September 2020 THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Viking £14.99, 400 pp) THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Viking £14.99, 400 pp) This debut from TV presenter Osman introduces an exciting new talent in … Read more
Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth. In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the US … Read more
SOCIETY Why Can’t We All Just Get Along … by Iain Dale (HarperCollins £12.99, 304pp) Say what you like about Iain Dale — and plenty do — but no one could deny that he is one of the hardest-working men in the media. Publisher, prolific author, businessman, commentator, a superb political interviewer and tireless host of … Read more
WHAT BOOK would author and illustrator Tony Ross take to a desert island? Tony, a resolute royalist, is halfway through Elizabeth II by Nicholas Davies He would take The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Russell Davies to a desert island The illustrator was first turned on to reading by his Rupert books He could not summon up any … Read more