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Ryanair raises passenger forecast but first quarter loss deepens
Ryanair has raised its passenger forecast following a recovery in summer bookings but reported a sharper first quarter loss, saying the coronavirus crisis “wreaked havoc” on Easter demand.Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said it now expected to fly between 90 and 100 million people in its current financial year to the end of March …
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More jobs could be made exempt from isolation as ministers meet over ‘pingdemic’ concerns
Senior ministers are set to discuss extending the rollout of daily COVD testing sites to ease the concerns of industry and frontline services by allowing further exemptions from isolation for critical workers.The COVID operations sub-committee of Cabinet will meet later to discuss if the number of jobs eligible for the testing regime should be widened. …
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Digital bank Zopa hires JP Morgan to oversee £100m funding boost
Zopa, one of Britain’s biggest digital financial services providers, is in talks with investors about a £100m capital injection that will put it on course to become the country’s latest fintech ‘unicorn’.Sky News has learnt that Zopa has hired JP Morgan, the Wall Street investment bank, to advise on what is expected to be its …
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Former cyber security chief raises alarm over sale of Welsh microchip manufacturer to Chinese-backed company
The UK’s former cyber security chief has raised the alarm over the sale of a Welsh microchip manufacturer to a Chinese-backed company.Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said the purchase of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia, a Dutch subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech, poses a greater threat …
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Taxpayers will be exposed to pandemic cost risks for decades, report says
Taxpayers will spend decades exposed to financial risks from the government’s coronavirus spending, according to a committee of MPs.Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC) has produced two reports related to the crisis, the first of which warns that Britain will be exposed to “significant financial risks for decades to come”. The cost of government measures has …
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Bridgepoint cooks up £500m Whopper with plot to sell Burger King UK
The newly listed owner of Burger King’s UK operations has begun drawing up plans for a sale of the business next year in a bet on an accelerated recovery of Britain’s pandemic-hit restaurant industry.Sky News has learnt that Bridgepoint Group is holding preliminary talks with investment banks about an auction of one of the country’s …
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Evening Standard
The entrepreneurial oilwoman with a passion for cats and cake
Cats have had a good covid. While humans have, on the large, had a pretty rotten time, our feline friends have been in more demand than ever.While demand for cats is usually pretty steady year in, year out, a global pandemic forces us all to spend days on end shut indoors and every man and …
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Emergency workers won’t need to be jabbed to have self-isolation exemption as testing expanded
People in frontline roles such as police, fire and the Border Force, will be able to avoid quarantine – regardless of vaccine status – if they are a close contact of a positive COVID case, as the government expands workplace testing in England.Emergency service workers and other critical staff, including those in transport, freight and …
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Business leaders have ‘obligation to speak up’, ex-Unilever boss says amid Ben & Jerry’s row
Unilever’s ex-boss has said business leaders have an “obligation to speak up” after his former company became embroiled in a row with Israel over its Ben & Jerry’s business.Paul Polman mounted a defence of the need to “fight for what is right” in remarks to Sky News after the ice cream brand said it would …
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South West food firms welcome isolation exemption scheme but demand details
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North East manufacturer Metec toasts £6.5m offshore contract wins
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Train firms cut services as staff forced to self-isolate after being ‘pinged’
Train services across England are being cut as a result of rail staff being forced to self-isolate.Reduced timetables are being introduced by operators in a bid to improve reliability after a series of last-minute cancellations. More than 600,000 people in England and Wales were told to quarantine by the NHS coronavirus app in the week …

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