Heathrow staff will offer £80 pre-flight coronavirus tests

Heathrow launches £80 twenty-minute airport COVID test amid hopes it will reopen air travel and quarantine will be cut to one week by Christmas Heathrow Airport is to offer passengers £80 pre-departure coronavirus tests  Transport Secretary: Rapid daily tests could lead to end of quarantine altogether The UK’s post-travel quarantine time could be halved to … Read more

Heathrow staff will offer £80 pre-flight coronavirus tests

Heathrow launches £80 twenty-minute airport COVID test amid hopes it will reopen air travel and quarantine will be cut to one week by Christmas Heathrow Airport is to offer passengers £80 pre-departure coronavirus tests  Transport Secretary: Rapid daily tests could lead to end of quarantine altogether The UK’s post-travel quarantine time could be halved to … Read more

GCHQ had a 30-year ‘whites only’ rule for hiring staff, says new book

GCHQ had a ‘colour bar’ on employees for nearly three decades, a new history of Britain’s eavesdropping agency reveals. The ban on hiring non-white staff was in place from the 1950s until as late as 1980. The revelation is made in a ‘warts-and-all’ official history of the spy agency, which also tells how ‘major mistakes’ … Read more

GCHQ had a ‘colour bar’ banning the hiring of non-white staff for 30 years, new book reveals

British spy agencies BANNED non-white employees until 1980, new official history of GCHQ reveals By Larisa Brown Defence And Security Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 00:04 BST, 20 October 2020 | Updated: 00:17 BST, 20 October 2020 GCHQ had a ‘colour bar’ on employees for nearly three decades, a new history of Britain’s eavesdropping … Read more

Fatcat lawyers getting £142,000-a-year pay rises while junior staff laid off

Fatcat lawyers are getting £142,000-a-year pay rises while taxpayers pick up bill for furloughed workers and junior staff get laid off Top lawyers have come under fire for getting pay rises of up to £142,00 a year Some firms laid of junior staff on grounds of Covid, an investigation revealed  All but three of 33 … Read more

Fatcat lawyers getting £142,000-a-year pay rises while junior staff laid off

Fatcat lawyers are getting £142,000-a-year pay rises while taxpayers pick up bill for furloughed workers and junior staff get laid off Top lawyers have come under fire for getting pay rises of up to £142,00 a year Some firms laid of junior staff on grounds of Covid, an investigation revealed  All but three of 33 … Read more

‘Sometimes we feel more like police than bar staff’: Empty Tier 2 pubs say rules are impossible

The myriad rules of life in Tier 2 of the government’s coronavirus restrictions were blasted by businesses today, with pub owners saying they ‘feel more like police than bar staff’. Usually bustling city centre high streets were exceptionally quiet as shoppers, workers and drinkers shunned Manchester. The Shambles Square – normally packed with afternoon drinkers … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 65% of staff said they travelled to work last week

Nearly two-thirds of working adults travelled to their workplace in Britain last week – the highest proportion since the coronavirus lockdown began – in a clear sign that firms are ignoring official advice to work from home. Some 65 per cent of employees said they commuted between October 7 and 11, either exclusively or combined … Read more

London Tube, train and bus staff are told to prepare for total SHUTDOWN

London Tube, train and bus staff are told to prepare for total SHUTDOWN of network this weekend unless TfL gets £1bn bailout – as Sadiq Khan is blasted over bid to extend £15 congestion zone to North and South Circulars Eleventh-hour talks for £1billion bailout have stalled because of Govt conditions  The Mayor is refusing … Read more

London Tube, train and bus staff are told to prepare for total SHUTDOWN

London Tube, train and bus staff are told to prepare for total SHUTDOWN of network this weekend unless TfL gets £1bn bailout – as Sadiq Khan is blasted over deal to extend £15 congestion zone to north and south circulars Eleventh-hour talks for £1billion bailout have stalled because of Govt conditions  The Mayor is refusing … Read more