M&S defies pressure to cut executive pay packages

M&S Chief Executive Steve Rowe will still take his full £810,000 salary plus bonuses despite taxpayers picking up the tab for retailer’s furloughed staff By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 23:40 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 01:54 BST, 29 April 2020 The boss of Marks & Spencer is not taking a pay … Read more

PIERS MORGAN: An open letter to President Trump from his (now unfollowed) friend: cut the covid crap

Dear Donald, On Friday evening, you unfollowed me on Twitter, which given you only follow 47 accounts was not an insignificant decision. It came a few hours after I posted a column in which I lambasted you for using your daily coronavirus press briefings to air ‘batsh*t crazy’ cure theories like ‘injecting or ingesting’ bleach … Read more

Mike Ashley’s Frasers asks suppliers to cut 20% off unpaid bills

Mike Ashley’s Frasers asks suppliers to cut 20% off unpaid invoices for stock  Sports Direct and House of Fraser are in arrears to suppliers The discount would be applied to bills for stock that would be ‘out of season’ By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:21 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: … Read more

Investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut

Now investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut with ‘pain to be shared by management’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:11 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 April 2020 Top investors are calling on Royal Mail to slash fat cat pay after it … Read more

Record 180 savings accounts disappeared in March and Nationwide will cut 261 more rates

A record number of savings accounts have disappeared over the last month as coronavirus shocked the savings market, new figures show. There were 180 savings accounts and tax-free Isas of all term lengths pulled from sale following a pair of Bank of England base rate cuts in March, according to research from financial information website … Read more

Spanish fortress town that has cut itself off a month ago still has zero coronavirus cases

A Spanish town that cut itself off from the outside world more than a month ago in an ambitious attempt to stop coronavirus reaching its residents still has zero infections. Zahara de la Sierra, which sits high above the Andalusian countryside in southern Spain, has so far managed to keep the global pandemic at bay … Read more

Calls for Royal Mail to cut fat-cat pay in response to coronavirus

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable calls for Royal Mail to cut fat-cat pay after bosses axe the dividend By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 The Business Secretary who led the privatisation of Royal Mail has urged the postal service to cut … Read more

Online searches for ‘bread’, ‘at home workout’, ‘animal crossing’ and ‘buzz cut’ soar

Online searches are shifting enormously during the coronavirus lockdown as people scour the web for ways to keep themselves informed and entertained.    Worldwide data from search giant Google, for example, reveals an all-time peak in queries pertaining to ‘buzz cut’ as people are forced to be their own barber.   Ireland and Canada are neck and … Read more