Retailers are fighting a rearguard action to keep their logistics operations functioning after Next pulled the plug on its distribution centres, citing employees’ concerns about… Read More »Retailers fight to keep warehouses open as virus crisis deepens
Deliveroo, the food delivery service, is to deliver 500,000 free meals to NHS workers across Britain as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies. Sky News has learnt… Read More »Deliveroo pledges 500,000 free meals for NHS staff
Euroclear, one of the world’s largest settlement houses for financial transactions, is facing a furious backlash from investors over a plan to hike fees for… Read More »Coronavirus: Euroclear faces backlash over trebling of fees
Sir Philip Green’s TopShop empire is to halt payments to its pension scheme for months as retailers and other stricken companies conserve cash during the… Read More »Coronavirus: TopShop empire halts pension payments
A third of this summer’s food harvest could go to waste on British farms because of a chronic shortage of migrant labour caused by the… Read More »‘Third of UK harvest may go to waste’ due to coronavirus travel ban
London’s second-busiest airport is to close one of its two terminals after a slump in flights triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sky News has learnt… Read More »Gatwick to close north terminal next week
The former boss of Interserve, the outsourcing giant, has been drafted in by ministers to help test thousands of key workers for COVID-19. Sky News… Read More »Ex-Interserve boss to oversee key worker virus testing
US unemployment claims rocketed to a record 3.3 million last week as a result of the widespread economic shutdown caused by coronavirus. The dramatic figure… Read More »US jobless claims soared to record 3.3 million over coronavirus shutdown
Universities and colleges have donated thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to NHS hospitals in an effort to ease shortages of safety equipment… Read More »Higher education rushes to nurse NHS through virus crisis
The government is racing to overhaul insolvency laws as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to unleash a deluge of corporate and individual bankruptcies across the UK.… Read More »Race to overhaul insolvency laws amid coronavirus crisis