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Coronavirus – Fri May 1, 2020

Tesco hands back £585m from business rates holiday

Vehicles on the M5 near Bristol

Waiting until last day to switch car insurance ‘can ramp up cost of policy’

Sir Phillip and Lady Tina Green

Lady Tina Green to pay £50m early into Arcadia pension scheme amid shortfall

Tesco sign

Tesco to pay back £60m in support to Scottish Government

London stock

London markets lift as stocks buoyed by vaccine rollout plans

Calls for a ban on night flights at airports have been rejected by the Government (Steve Parsons/PA)

Government rejects plea to ban night flights amid noise complaints

Coronavirus – Wed Dec 2, 2020

Job losses: Major cuts since the start of the pandemic

Wetherspoon

Wetherspoon boss sells £5m of shares in pub chain

Will making

One in 14 people ‘made or updated their will in early months of lockdown’

Oil, gas and coal production need to fall to keep temperature rises to 1.5C, report warns (Andy Buchanan/PA)

Fossil fuel output must fall 6% a year to 2030 to meet climate goals – report

A Prezzo restaurant

Italian restaurant chain Prezzo snapped up by investor Cain International

Topshop Topman store on Princes Street, Edinburgh

Starmer: Arcadia’s collapse threatens to ‘rip the heart out’ of high streets

A G4S van

G4S hostile bidder GardaWorld hikes takeover offer to £3.68bn

A barmaid pulls a pint

Government urged to hand Tesco rates cash to pubs and breweries

Ryanair flew just two million passengers in November as demand for air travel continued to be hit by coronavirus restrictions (Niall Carson/PA)

Ryanair suffered 82% drop in passenger numbers in November

Bonmarche

Bonmarche collapses into administration again

Leon1

Leon serves up restructuring deal to slash rents after pandemic hit

People queueing outside the Nike Town store at Oxford Circus,

Early morning queues as thousands of non-essential shops reopen in England