Now it’s Fly Out to Help Out! Rishi Sunak is under pressure to suspend air passenger duty until the end of next summer to get Britain flying again More than 20 Tories pressure Chancellor Sunak to suspend air passenger duty Air passenger duty can add £13 to a short-haul ticket and £78 to long-haul fares A … Read more
Italy threatens to suspend Ryanair’s right to fly in the country for ‘breaking coronavirus health regulations’ Italy said Ryanair violated Covid-19 health regulations set by the government Italy threatened to suspend all ‘air transport activities at national airports’ At the end of July, Ryanair revealed losses of £168million after being forced to ground its fleet … Read more
Italy threatens to suspend Ryanair’s right to fly in the country for ‘breaking coronavirus health regulations’ Italy said Ryanair violated Covid-19 health regulations set by the government Italy threatened to suspend all ‘air transport activities at national airports’ At the end of July, Ryanair revealed losses of £168million after being forced to ground its fleet … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted he will not be ‘pushed into becoming a knee jerk Sinophobe’ as he warned Britain cannot ‘completely abandon’ its relationship with China despite rising tensions with Beijing. The Prime Minister said the UK does have ‘serious concerns’ about China’s behaviour on issues like human rights abuses and Hong Kong. But he … Read more
Tories suspend activist who tweeted that Bradford-born Labour shadow minister Naz Shah ‘should go back to Pakistan’ Conservatives said Theodora Dickinson was being investigated on Friday She targeted Labour shadow minister and Bradford West MP Naz Shah Ms Dickinson, who deleted the tweet almost immediately, later apologised By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline and Pa Published: … Read more
Virgin Money customers who had their credit card suspended will be able to use them again from tomorrow after bank’s U-turn Customers will be able to use their credit cards again from Saturday 9 May Their previous credit limits will also be reinstated, Virgin Money said The bank has apologised as the suspension attracted strong … Read more
China has warned it has ‘serious concerns’ after Donald Trump suspended all US funding to the World Health Organization for what he called ‘its role in severely mismanaging the spread of coronavirus’. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for Beijing’s foreign ministry, said the global battle against the pandemic is at a ‘critical moment’ and that suspending … Read more
British Airways is expected to announce it will suspend around 36,000 staff as it battles to survive the coronavirus crisis. The airline has reached a broad deal with the Unite union that will include the suspension of 80 per cent of BA’s cabin crew, ground staff, engineers and those working at head office. Crucially however, no staff … Read more
Banks bow to pressure and axe billions of pounds of dividends to save money for coronavirus fight Britain’s biggest banks are to stop paying dividends during the coronavirus crisis Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest said yesterday shareholders would not get payouts Move comes after string of firms axed dividends to save money to fight the virus Coronavirus … Read more
EastEnders has announced that filming has been suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesperson for the soap confirmed that along with production being suspended, the soap will also cut it’s weekly number of episodes to just two a week, in a bid to spread out their film episodes. Production on the UK’s biggest soaps has … Read more