Pandemic set to cost car industry more than £8bn – even if factories reopen in just two weeks By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 30 April 2020 The Covid-19 crisis is set to cost the British car industry more than £8billion – even if … Read more
Oil deals a cruel blow: Shell’s decision to slash dividend and suspend share buybacks hurts investors, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 30 April 2020 For everyone managing a pension or investment fund, Shell’s decision to slash its dividend by two-thirds … Read more
Ending furlough scheme in June is ‘tantamount to economic suicide’, say business leaders By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 30 April 2020 Ending the Government’s near-£50billion wage subsidy scheme in June is ‘tantamount to economic suicide’ as firms will be forced to make mass … Read more
Sainsbury’s defers £160m dividend as profits remain flat despite pre-lockdown sales rush By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 30 April 2020 Sainsbury’s has deferred a £160million dividend and cancelled bonuses despite its supermarkets being ‘busier than Christmas’ in the week before lockdown. Bosses said … Read more
Twitter sales plunge 27% but users grow amid ‘global conversation’ about coronavirus pandemic By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 30 April 2020 Twitter revealed record numbers of new accounts but swung into a loss as the coronavirus crisis hit spending by advertisers. The US … Read more
WHAT BOOK would farmer and writer Amanda Owen take to a desert island? Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne She would take Swaledale by Marie Hartley and Ella Pontefract to a desert island British writer said James Herriot first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 30 April … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Boris Johnson and the Boffins were back — and the trio had some new material! By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 30 April 2020 The old band was back together. Boris And The Boffins finally reunited yesterday, their month-long absence from the … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK BECOMING BULLETPROOF by Evy Poumpouras (Icon £14.99, 336 pp) She’s not a woman to mess with, Evy Poumpouras. A former U.S. Secret Service Agent blessed with spectacular looks, who has worked in the security details for four former presidents, she knows of what she speaks. She was on duty at the … Read more
Heather Graham, 50, is an ageless beauty in Daisy Dukes and a black crop top during stroll with mystery man By David Lawrance For Dailymail.com Published: 22:10 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 30 April 2020 She turned 50 in January. But Heather Graham looked decades younger than her years on Thursday, when … Read more
BIOGRAPHY HOUSE OF GLASS By Hadley Freeman (4th Estate £16.99, 464pp) Sara Glass is young, beautiful and in love, living life to the full in 1930s Paris, when suddenly, in the face of growing anti-Semitism and the imminent threat of war, the best decision — and the one her family pushes her to make — … Read more
They have been called the forgotten front in the war against Covid-19. Diligent, devoted but under-equipped, they are the staff of Britain’s embattled care homes. But no one was feeling forgotten yesterday when Mail Force arrived at Shedfield Lodge care home bringing vital personal protection equipment. Following a six-week ban on all visitors, the new … Read more
‘So much to be grateful for tonight’: Kate Garraway says husband Derek is ‘still with us’ but is facing a ‘battle’ with coronavirus as she joins clap for carers By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline Published: 22:05 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 30 April 2020 Kate Garraway has given fans an update on … Read more
Residents on a small island off the coast of Belize have begun harvesting fresh drinking water from the air after shipments from the mainland were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The residents of Caye Caulker Island, 20 miles off the coast of Belize City, are using 23 solar-powered hydropanels from Zero Mass Water to … Read more