Greggs has announced plans to cut more than 800 jobs as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The boss warned that the bakery chain “will not be profitable as a business” if sales continue at the rates they have been in lockdown. In a statement posted on its employee information website earlier this week,
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November 13th, 2020 by Michael Barnard Bill Gates receives nothing but praise from me for the work that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does on global disease prevention and eradication. That field is one of the three that Gates’ and I overlap at least slightly in, as I helped build the world’s most sophisticated
The suspect in an Islamic extremist knife attack that killed three people in a French church had a photograph on one of his mobile phones of the perpetrator of another deadly incident. French prosecutors said the Tunisian man had images of Abdoullakh Anzorov, the Chechen refugee identified as the killer of teacher Samuel Paty who
Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street after a power struggle that has rocked the prime minister’s administration. Mr Johnson‘s senior advisor exited Number 10 carrying a large box on Friday evening following a bitter dispute which also led to the resignation of Mr Cummings’ fellow Vote Leave veteran Lee Cain as
Politics is a brutal business, but the last week has surpassed even Westminster’s savage standards. I understand it was Boris Johnson himself who asked Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain to leave Downing Street. Not at Christmas. Not in the New Year – but right now. Remember, just two days earlier the prime minister put out
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) Friday, September 18, 2020, as they officially begin trading today. NYSE Unity and Palantir both reported revenue growth above 50% on Thursday in their first earnings announcements since going public in September. Investors rewarded them, sending their stocks up on Friday. Unity, whose software
A new pilot is set to launch that will give family members the chance to visit loved ones in care homes over Christmas. The scheme will take place in several homes in Hampshire, Cornwall and Devon from 16 November, in the hope it can be rolled out more widely before the festive period. One family
David Zaslav Anjali Sundaram | CNBC The TV ad market is on the mend after getting hit by a broader pandemic ad slowdown. But with Covid-19 cases on the rise, some networks are cautious about the coming quarters, even with a big boost from political ads this quarter. In recent days and weeks, media companies
November 13th, 2020 by Tina Casey File this one under D for Don’t let the door hit you on your way out. Outgoing President* Trump blew a lot of hot air about saving coal jobs, but he leaves office with the US coal industry in tatters. Domestic oil and gas producers are also looking at
The founder of the UK’s largest independent travel firm, who saved thousands of Thomas Cook staff from losing their jobs when the holiday giant went bust, has died. John Hays, who started the company in 1980 out of the back of his mother’s childrenswear shop in County Durham, collapsed on Friday while working at its
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): A northwestern New Mexico coal plant is closing and being replaced by solar and battery storage. French President Emmanuel Macron on Joe Biden presidential win: “Make our planet great again.” Two coal plants in Baltimore will stop burning fossil fuel by 2025. Arcadia Power is committed to making
A view of Manchester, England, at night. Nigel_Wallace | iStock | Getty Images In England, scientists are trying to create the home of the future by testing how varying types of weather affect energy use in both homes and small buildings. Construction work is underway on a £16 million ($21.07 million) facility which will utilize
A spate of burglaries – which targeted luxury homes of the rich and famous – netted the alleged thieves over £26m, a court has heard. Watches, jewellery and cash were stolen in raids across west London in December last year, with homeowners including Tamara Ecclestone and Frank and Christine Lampard. The £25m raid at the
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Sergeant Matt Ratana, the Metropolitan Police says. Mr Ratana was shot at Croydon Custody Centre in the early hours of Friday 25 September. He was taken to hospital but later died from his wounds. A 23-year-old man, who had been arrested earlier in
6:52 PM ET A season that started on the COVID-19 restricted list ended with the 2020 NL MVP for Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman. Here’s a closer look at the stats and performances that separated Freeman from finalists Mookie Betts and Manny Machado for the award. The number that says it best 1.102. Freeman’s
Tony Xu, co-founder and chief executive officer of DoorDash Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The company will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DASH.”
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