New blow to air industry as firm Swissport announces 4,500 job losses due to Covid-19

Baggage handler Swissport announces 4,500 job losses due to Covid-19 as airport bosses say 20,000 UK industry staff are at risk Chief executive Jason Holt told staff cuts had to come to help company survive Swissport operates at airports across the UK, including Heathrow and Gatwick It currently employs 8,500 baggage handlers and check-in staff … Read more

UK motor industry calls for the Government to provide a sector ‘restart package’

Up to one in six UK motor industry workers face being made redundant in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, car makers have warned as they’ve called on the government to provide taxpayer help to keep their businesses afloat and staff in employment. The sector cull is on top off the 6,000 jobs already axed … Read more

Boris Johnson is planning a package of measures to boost construction industry after lockdown 

Build, build, build! Boris Johnson plans package to boost construction and rescue economy Government will allow planning permission extensions to save building projects Expiry dates between start of lockdown and end of this year extended to April  Work sites will be allowed longer hours to help ensure safe social distancing   By Larisa Brown Political Correspondent … Read more

Boris Johnson is planning a package of measures to boost construction industry after lockdown 

Build, build, build! Boris Johnson plans package to boost construction and rescue economy Government will allow planning permission extensions to save building projects Expiry dates between start of lockdown and end of this year extended to April  Work sites will be allowed longer hours to help ensure safe social distancing   By Larisa Brown Political Correspondent … Read more

Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles’s Josh Altman says COVID-19 rocked the real estate industry

The housing market has slowed down tremendously since the spike of COVID-19 and the pandemic hits season 12 of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles in a big way. For Josh Altman, ‘the game has changed with corona’ but, despite some very slow months on the work front, the 41-year-old says that this season of … Read more

How LORD ASHCROFT exposed the most barbaric industry on earth: South Africa’s captive lion trade 

I cannot abide those who are cruel to animals, but the sad fact is that in our digital age, my strong aversion is aroused all too often. I have lost count of the number of people who post on social media platforms such as Twitter so-called ‘kill shots’ of themselves grinning at the camera (or, … Read more

How LORD ASHCROFT exposed the most barbaric industry on earth: South Africa’s captive lion trade 

I cannot abide those who are cruel to animals, but the sad fact is that in our digital age, my strong aversion is aroused all too often. I have lost count of the number of people who post on social media platforms such as Twitter so-called ‘kill shots’ of themselves grinning at the camera (or, … Read more

Oil giant BP cuts 10,000 jobs as industry reels from Covid-19

BP slashing 10,000 jobs as coronavirus crisis sparks brutal clear-out of senior management and white-collar staff By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 8 June 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 June 2020 BP is slashing 10,000 jobs as the coronavirus crisis sparks a brutal clear-out of senior management and white-collar staff.  … Read more

Bentley axes 1,000 jobs as UK car industry feels pain of lockdown

Bentley axes 1,000 jobs – a quarter of its workforce – as UK car industry feels pain of Covid-19 lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 5 June 2020 Bentley is cutting a quarter of its workforce – taking job losses in the car … Read more

Quarantine plan for tourists may be scrapped by July if travel industry can devise safe alternative

Quarantine plan for holidaymakers could be scrapped by July if travel industry bosses can devise safe alternative within three weeks Priti Patel asked bosses to come up with ‘innovative solutions’ in a video meeting It opened up a slim prospect of foreign holidays re-starting as early as June 29  Travel firms have condemned the quarantine … Read more