Oil facing a perfect storm as demand becomes as bad as the supply side

Why the oil price has gone negative: Crude market facing a perfect storm as plunging demand leaves over-supplying producers paying to get rid of the black stuff By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 14:03 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 14:03 BST, 21 April 2020 Unprecedented is a word in wide – but … Read more

Royal Mail boss Rico Back facing calls to return to UK from his Swiss penthouse – or quit

Royal Mail boss Rico Back facing calls to return to UK from his Swiss penthouse – or quit By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 17 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 17 April 2020 Royal Mail’s boss is facing calls to return to the UK from his Swiss penthouse – or … Read more

RFK’s widow Ethel Kennedy, 92, ‘fan of Che Guevara’ despite late husband facing off against Cuba

Senator Robert Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, has reportedly been a fan of revolutionary Che Guevara for years despite her family’s struggle against communism during the 1960s. The 92-year-old has a ‘subversive streak’ and even named her dog ‘Che’ after meeting with former Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, during the height of the Cold War, her son revealed. Her adoration … Read more

IMF warns countries including UK facing ‘massive’ rise in debt due to Covid-19 outbreak

IMF warns countries including the UK are facing a ‘massive’ rise in debt due to the Covid-19 outbreak By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 22:36 BST, 15 April 2020 Countries including the UK are facing a ‘massive’ rise in debt due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the … Read more

Rural America is facing higher coronavirus death rates than major US cities largely due to age

Rural America is seeing higher death rates from the novel coronavirus than its urban counterparts because of an aging population, a new report suggests. The research examined the impact of age on the potential death rate in each US county. A demographer found that more than half of the country’s rural counties would have significantly … Read more

Premier League clubs facing losses of up to £177m in season ticket and corporate hospitality sales

Premier League clubs are facing combined losses of up to £177million in season ticket and corporate hospitality sales due to the coronavirus crisis.  Analysis undertaken by Sportsmail reveals that the 20 top-flight clubs were projecting income of around £708m from match-day revenue this season, with almost a quarter of that set to be lost as a … Read more

More than 300,000 customers facing long wait to get on B&Q website for gardening and DIY products

B&Q customers had to wait more than an hour today just to get on to the company’s website, with hundreds of thousands looking to buy products this weekend. With the UK still on lockdown, huge numbers of people will instead be turning to gardening and DIY projects over the Easter break, rather than visiting relatives. … Read more

More than 300,000 customers facing long wait to get on B&Q website for gardening and DIY products

Wait to get onto B&Q website stretches longer than an HOUR with more than 300,000 joining queue to make click and collect orders this Easter weekend Online shoppers told they will need to spend at least 60 minutes in virtual queue  Families unable to visit relatives due to lockdown are turning to home projects The … Read more

Nursery fee nightmare: Parents with no child care still facing bills

Cash-strapped parents are being forced to pay nursery fees or risk losing their child’s place, campaigners have told Money Mail. The coronavirus lockdown has caused all schools and nurseries to shut, with only the children of key workers catered for.  But some parents, who are now looking after their children while also working from home, … Read more