Britain’s coronaphobia means the economy could take FIVE YEARS to recover with unemployment hitting three million when furlough ends and GDP slumping 11.5% this year EY said it expects the UK’s GDP to remain below 2019 level until 2024 They blamed higher-than-expected levels of ‘consumer caution’ on High Street Unemployment could hit 9% after the … Read more
Naya Rivera sent a photo of her four-year-old son Josey to a family member 90 minutes before he was found on their pontoon boat that shows the cove they’d sailed to A body has been recovered in the search for missing Glee actress Naya Rivera who vanished on a California lake and was feared to … Read more
Covid ‘will lead to a cheap holidays bonanza’: Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary says only way for tourism firms to recover is to slash prices to get people travelling again Michael O’Leary said the only way his airline can recover is by slashing fares As Ryanair resumed flights, he said lower fares would be funded by … Read more
More than three-quarters of workers are willing to see income tax rates hiked to help the country pull itself out of the £300billion financial black-hole it now faces, new findings from a poll suggest. In March, official figures revealed that the country’s economy shrank by 5.8 per cent, marking the biggest monthly decline on record. … Read more
The toll the coronavirus has taken on car makers has been unveiled by industry figures, with a 78 per cent collapse in registrations in Europe in April. In a month where UK vehicle sales plunged 97 per cent, the volume of new cars bought across the continent fell from 1.34million in April 2019 to 292,600 cars … Read more
People who recover from coronavirus and test positive again are NOT contagious: Korean CDC finds ‘re-positive’ patients did not infect any of their 790 contacts The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at 285 survivors of coronavirus who tested positive after other tests said they were negative Of the 790 people the patients … Read more
An extra bank holiday in October could help revive Britain’s tourism industry from the huge loss suffered during the coronavirus crisis, a top tourism boss suggested today. Patricia Yates, who heads Visit Britain, said the industry had lost £37billion in trade since lockdown began and an additional day off would ‘stimulate demand when it is … Read more
A 108-year-old woman from New Jersey has recovered from the coronavirus, and could be the country’s oldest Covid-19 survivor. During her 108-years, Sylvia Goldsholl has lived through both the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and now 2019’s coronavirus pandemic, over 100 years apart. Goldsholl is not quite the oldest reported person to have recovered from the coronavirus. … Read more
House prices could take nearly a year to recover from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s leading property professionals have warned. A Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report said that 80 per cent of its member agents had seen buyers and sellers pull out of property deals during lockdown. Last month, the Rics called … Read more
A new treatment for slipped discs involves injecting a blob of gel containing alcohol into the spine. Marine contractor and father-of-two Robert Parke, 49, from Dumfries, was one of the first people in the UK to have it done. THE PATIENT Robert Parke, 49, has suffered crippling back pain since his teens When I was … Read more