Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Australian news outlets a day after shutting down pages

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Nine and News Corp just a day after banning news on its Australian site. The US social media giant blocked Australian users from seeing and sharing local news last Thursday, in response to a new law to make tech giants pay media companies for news content on their sites. … Read more

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Australian news outlets a day after shutting down pages

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Nine and News Corp just a day after banning news on its Australian site. The US social media giant blocked Australian users from seeing and sharing local news last Thursday, in response to a new law to make tech giants pay media companies for news content on their sites. … Read more

Ministers ‘hope to allow children’s team sports to restart in next month’

Ministers ‘hope to allow children’s team sports to restart in next month’ in bid to avoid ‘calamitous’ mental health impact of lockdown Schools set to reopen on March 8 according to plans to be revealed on Monday Ministers are planning to ease rules for outdoor exercise at end of next month  Children ‘should be allowed … Read more

Ministers ‘hope to allow children’s team sports to restart in next month’

Ministers ‘hope to allow children’s team sports to restart in next month’ in bid to avoid ‘calamitous’ mental health impact of lockdown Schools set to reopen on March 8 according to plans to be revealed on Monday Ministers are planning to ease rules for outdoor exercise at end of next month  Children ‘should be allowed … Read more

Takeaway food app Deliveroo urges Boris Johnson to restart Eat Out to Help Out scheme

Takeaway food app Deliveroo urges Boris Johnson to restart Eat Out to Help Out scheme in letter co-signed by 300 restaurants in bid to boost hospitality sector after lockdown Itsu and Pizza Hut also signed the letter asking for Eat Out to Help Out extension  Groups said that businesses had come under ‘immense financial pressure’  … Read more

Takeaway food app Deliveroo urges Boris Johnson to restart Eat Out to Help Out scheme

Takeaway food app Deliveroo urges Boris Johnson to restart Eat Out to Help Out scheme in letter co-signed by 300 restaurants in bid to boost hospitality sector after lockdown Itsu and Pizza Hut also signed the letter asking for Eat Out to Help Out extension  Groups said that businesses had come under ‘immense financial pressure’  … Read more

Car repossessions to restart from February after Covid-19 ban ends

Drivers who fall behind on car finance payments can have their vehicles repossessed by lenders from February as FCA’s Covid-19 ban ends Repossession ban has been in place during the pandemic to protect consumers Exceptional financial hardship caused by Covid-19 has seen repossessions on homes, cars and other products restricted FCA has proposed for motor repossessions … Read more

Drug giants to restart medicine trials unrelated to Covid

Drug companies ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 British drug companies are ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus.  Haseeb Ahmad – … Read more

Sainsbury’s tipped to restart dividend payments

Sainsbury’s tipped to restart dividend despite row over it receiving huge tax break and a second national lockdown By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 31 October 2020 Sainsbury’s is tipped to restart dividend payments this week despite a row over it receiving a huge … Read more

Oxford and AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine trial could restart ‘within days’

Trials of Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine could be allowed to restart just days after a British volunteer was rushed to hospital with suspected swelling in their spinal cord. UK drug giant AstraZeneca, which owns the rights to the vaccine, announced that all studies of the jab had been paused indefinitely while it investigates whether the … Read more