Secretary of State Mike Pompeo orders Americans to return home ‘immediately’ due to COVID-19 saying he cannot guarantee charter flights once commercial planes cease to operate Pompeo says he ‘does not know how long commercial flights will operate’ and urged Americans to immediately return home The State Department has already helped to repatriate 26,000 Americans … Read more
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo orders Americans to return home ‘immediately’ due to COVID-19 saying he cannot guarantee charter flights once commercial planes cease to operate Pompeo says he ‘does not know how long commercial flights will operate’ and urged Americans to immediately return home The State Department has already helped to repatriate 26,000 Americans … Read more
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley pressured by MPs over factory worker’s safety By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 25 March 2020 Sports Direct has been pressured by MPs to explain what it is doing to protect its workers from coronavirus. Mike Ashley, boss of … Read more
Piers Morgan has promised to pay parking tickets for NHS workers as it emerges medics are being fined at hospital car parks during the coronavirus crisis. Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Mr Morgan asked why traffic wardens – who he said were ‘top of [his] list’ for non-essential workers – are operating when the … Read more
White House officials said Tuesday that anyone who has recently been to New York should self quarantine for 14 days. Dr Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House task force, warned that people leaving the hardest hit area of the United States might not be sick, but could have been exposed to the virus. … Read more
Fury at Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin and Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley over their reaction to coronavirus lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 Two of Britain’s best known bosses have caused uproar over their reaction to the coronavirus lockdown. Tim Martin, … Read more
Bosses at Sports Direct have said all stores will remain open because selling sporting and fitness equipment makes the company a vital asset during a national shutdown. Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, which includes Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, wrote to all workers within 30 minutes of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down all … Read more
Bosses at Sports Direct have said all stores will remain open because selling sporting and fitness equipment makes the company a vital asset during a national shutdown. Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, which includes Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, wrote to all workers within 30 minutes of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down all … Read more
‘Woah, what the hell!?’ Love Island star Sophie Piper clashes with Mike Boateng over ‘untasteful’ joke in awkward reunion Published: 10:22 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 10:23 GMT, 20 March 2020 They spent January searching for romance in a luxury villa in South Africa. And, Love Island star Sophie Piper clashed with Mike Boateng … Read more
Mike Ashley’s Frasers becomes latest retailer to warn on profits due to ‘significant disruption’ from coronavirus outbreak Frasers no longer expects profits to grow by the 5 to 15% in the year to April The retail group also dropped its forward guidance due to the uncertainty Last year Frasers made profits of £287.8million Coronavirus symptoms: … Read more