Staff at Switzerland’s biggest crematorium have opened up about the physical and psychological toll of coping with considerably higher numbers of cremations during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Crematorium Nordheim in Zurich is striving to maintain the conditions for saying peaceful goodbyes despite the rise in cremations, which has forced the business to extend its opening … Read more
Watches of Switzerland’s shares surge as strong American demand for brands like Rolex and Tag Heuer more than offsets fall in international tourism Watches of Switzerland runs six showrooms at Heathrow and one at Gatwick The firm’s sales rose above £200m in the first 10 weeks of the second quarter It now expects to make … Read more
Switzerland’s financial watchdog launches probe into spying scandal at Credit Suisse By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 2 September 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 2 September 2020 Swiss watchdog Finma has opened so-called enforcement proceedings against Credit Suisse Switzerland’s financial regulator is investigating the spying scandal at Credit Suisse. Swiss watchdog … Read more
All is calm on Locarno’s Piazza Grande, until a boy in an AC Milan strip boots a football on to our cafe table. Crash go the cups of espresso macchiato. Mamma mia! ‘Scusate signori!’ pleads the wee culprit. I kick his ball back before we stroll down to the waterfront, passing chic shops under colonnades. … Read more
The REAL-LIFE fairy-tale mountain landscape: Incredible images capture Switzerland’s impossibly beautiful Lauterbrunnen valley (though you might be forgiven for thinking it’s Hollywood CGI at work) Lauterbrunnen Valley is a ‘trough valley’ that contains no less than 72 waterfalls – one is 1,000ft high The valley town of Lauterbrunnen sits at an elevation of 795 metres … Read more