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City Centres pay price as workers stay at home
The fall in the workforce using town and city office blocks took its toll on the retail sector last month, as the number of people going…
Friday 30 October 2026
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The fall in the workforce using town and city office blocks took its toll on the retail sector last month, as the number of people going…
The numbers of cars, pedestrians and cyclists are close to pre-lockdown levels in London and northeast England.
Costa Coffee has announced up to 1,650 redundancies after becoming the latest high street business to be hit by the dearth of city centre shoppers.
Amazon is to create 7,000 new permanent UK jobs by the end of the year, the online retail giant has announced.
Discount vouchers, outdoor performances and reduced rent for artist residencies are some of the measures being proposed to kickstart the economic recovery and stem job losses…
Sales of organic food and drink rose sharply in the UK during lockdown – and have soared by double the rate of non-organic equivalents over the…
The number of empty shops on UK high streets has risen to its highest level in six years as city centres, and especially London, suffer from…
A good internet connection and access to green spaces are becoming bigger priorities for homeowners and renters in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey…
Virgin Atlantic is stepping up its post-lockdown flight schedule after the High Court cleared a £1.2 billion recapitalisation of the airline in which scores of creditors…
Up to 1,200 jobs could be lost at Heathrow after passenger numbers at Britain’s biggest airport collapsed.
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme increased restaurant spending by more than a third on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, figures have revealed.
The traditional mass return to the workplace failed to materialise in London on Tuesday, with passenger numbers on the tube and buses rising more slowly than…
Google is to pass the cost of the UK’s digital services tax on to advertisers, adding more than £120m to marketers’ costs annually, as the government’s…
The UK has plummeted down the global broadband speed rankings to rate as one of the slowest countries in Europe, with a typical household taking more…
Factories have made up some of the ground lost in lockdown, as demand for manufactured goods picked up domestically and abroad last month, but are still…