National Express hopes cutting fares will attract people back to using its buses, which are around half-full at the moment even though a full service is running in the West Midlands .
Weeks after its 1,200 shops were given the green light to reopen, the number of people heading to the West End remained down by close to two-thirds in July, compared to the same period last year.
FTSE 100 company GVC said it used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to temporarily sideline 14,000 shop staff, helping it to cut costs. However it would not commit to returning the money to the Government.
Underlining the impact of the pandemic on the tourism industry, the travel group revealed sales had been virtually wiped out with just one in six summer holidays for this year.
Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez (pictured) said they would produce enough doses of the Covid-19 jab for the whole of Latin America, excluding Brazil.
Unilever’s hipster ice cream offshoot Ben & Jerry’s is being criticised for using Twitter to attack Home Secretary Priti Patel over her proposal to use the Royal Navy to cut off channel-crossing migrants.
The move will make it harder for house hunters hoping to cash in on the recent stamp duty cut introduced by chancellor Rishi Sunak to kickstart the property market.
Sales at Watches of Switzerland rose 5 per cent to £811m in the year to April 26, even though lots of its stores were closed for several weeks at the end of the period because of lockdown.
The parent firm of Ladbrokes Coral said higher online gaming revenues helped to offset a decline in punters placing bets on sports contests.
The supplier – which has taken a lot of business from the Big Six energy firms in recent years – was told by Ofgem to pay out after it found around 61,000 customers were affected.
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