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Many branches restricted services during lockdown as they battled staff shortages, with some closing doors altogether. It has meant customers have been forced to queue around the block.

This country has faced mass job losses before but rarely on this scale. The latest predictions say unemployment could rise to 10 per cent by the end of the year.

Travel shares took off after a buoyant update from budget airline easyJet. Demand for last-minute summer holidays has been so much better than expected that the company expanded its schedule.

Prices have been driven higher by the weak dollar, depressed bond yields and fears about the economic impact of the Covid crisis. Market turmoil tends to push investors towards so-called ‘safe haven’ assets.

Companies will hand back £60.5bn to shareholders in 2020, according to financial administration firm Link Group. This is down a whopping 39 per cent from £98.5bn last year.

The energy giant was hammered by a sharp drop in oil prices, triggered by the pandemic. But shares jumped after chief exec Bernard Looney (pictured) unveiled some details of its new green strategy.

The breakdown firm said Centerbridge Partners and Towerbrook Capital were launching a potential offer, rivalled by potential bids from their peers Platinum Equity Advisors and Warburg Pincus.

TikTok has grown into one of the world’s most popular social networks. But the Chinese-owned service is now at the centre of a struggle involving Beijing, Washington and London.

Tim Steiner, 50, took home £58.7m in 2019, one of six blue-chip chief executives to earn more than £10m. Most of it was a £54m bonus, from a five-year scheme linked to Ocado’s share price.

The new 3-seat hyperrcar is the culmination of a life’s work for legendary car and F1 designer Professor Gordon Murray who says the new ‘spiritual successor’ to his ground-breaking McLaren F1.