Police dish out 66 times more fines in crackdown on Covid-19 rule flouters

Police dish out 66 times more fines to Covid-19 rule flouters than in first lockdown… as hundreds of students hold SNOWBALL FIGHT in park and more than 20 people ‘sledge’ on single sheet Scotland Yard Deputy Commissioner Steve House revealed extent of crackdown  Sir Steve said the officers were now ‘accelerating more quickly’ to enforcement In the … Read more

MUST READS | Daily Mail Online

MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 14 January 2021 THE SWITCH by Beth O’Leary (Quercus £8.99, 368 pp) THE SWITCH  by Beth O’Leary (Quercus £8.99, 368 pp) Bright, ambitious, with a flatshare in fashionable East London and a handsome boyfriend, Leena Cotton … Read more

Police dish out 66 times more fines in crackdown on Covid-19 rule flouters

Police dish out 66 times more fines in crackdown on Covid-19 rule flouters… as hundreds of students are dispersed after holding SNOWBALL FIGHT in park Scotland Yard Deputy Commissioner Steve House revealed extent of crackdown  Sir Steve said the officers were now ‘accelerating more quickly’ to enforcement In the first lockdown, Met Police gave out 4.5 fines … Read more

Sir Brian Leveson publishes first report on Boohoo’s supply chain overhaul

Sir Brian Leveson publishes first report on Boohoo’s supply chain overhaul after sweatshop-style conditions and low pay were exposed By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 January 2021 Sir Brian Leveson has published his first report on Boohoo’s supply chain overhaul Sir … Read more

PICTURE THIS  | Daily Mail Online

PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 14 January 2021 SECRETS OF THE GREAT OCEAN LINERS  by John G. Sayers (The Bodleian Library £25) SECRETS OF THE GREAT OCEAN LINERS by John G. Sayers (The Bodleian Library £25) Before the dawn of commercial … Read more

Lockdowns to wipe £1bn off Primark sales… but Boohoo booms

Lockdowns to wipe £1bn off Primark sales… but Boohoo booms as internet shoppers stock up on casualwear Boohoo enjoyed a bumper Christmas but Primark suffered as stores closed Primark’s refusal down the years to move online looks like a grave error  Boohoo generated £661 million in sales in the four months to December 31  By … Read more

Devil woman: The realities of author Patricia Highsmith

BOOK OF THE WEEK   DEVILS, LUSTS AND STRANGE DESIRES  by Richard Bradford (Bloomsbury £20, 272pp) By the end of the introduction — let alone the end of the book — I loathed Patricia Highsmith. In this centenary year of her birth, her satisfyingly ruthless biographer Richard Bradford sets out the essence of her character and … Read more

WHAT BOOK would historical novelist Kate Mosse take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would historical novelist Kate Mosse take to a desert island? Kate Mosse is currently re-reading all Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels She said she would take T S Eliot’s Four Quartets with her to a desert island  The novelist said Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more

British Gas owner Centrica manages to curb customer exits for the first time in years

British Gas owner Centrica manages to curb customer exits for the first time in years with 6.9m clients staying put By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 14 January 2021 The owner of British Gas has put the brakes on the number of … Read more