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Thomas Cook: ‘I wish the business well’
Former flight attendant Grace Fletcher says she and some former colleagues would do anything to get back into aviation.
She loves her current job, helping vulnerable children in the prison service, but would also do anything to "reverse!-->!-->!-->…
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Coronavirus: Could UK adopt German pay top-up scheme?
Unlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.
While British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at!-->!-->!-->…
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Small firms thrown lifeline in insurance test case ruling
Small businesses have been thrown a lifeline after the High Court ruled some insurers should have paid out for losses caused by lockdown.
Judges ruled that the disease clauses in some business interruption policies should have meant!-->!-->!-->…
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Asia sees first regional recession in 60 years
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says the Covid-19 pandemic has pulled the region's developing economies into recession.
It is the first time in six decades that "developing Asia" - a designation that includes 45 countries - has seen a!-->!-->!-->…
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Women lose state pension age appeal against government
Two women affected by controversial changes to the state pension age have lost their Court of Appeal challenge.
Julie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, backed by campaign group BackTo60, challenged the changes after losing a High Court!-->!-->!-->…
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Young people hit as unemployment rate rises
The UK unemployment rate has risen to its highest level for two years, official figures show.
The unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July, compared with 3.9% previously.
Young people were particularly hard hit,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Wylfa: Hitachi ‘withdraws’ from nuclear project
Plans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped.
Work on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK!-->!-->!-->…
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Wetherspoon: 66 staff test positive across 50 pubs
JD Wetherspoon has said that 66 of its workers have tested positive for the coronavirus but maintains that visiting pubs is safe.
The company, which employs more than 41,000 people, said the vast majority of its pubs had recorded no!-->!-->!-->…
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Unemployment: Planned redundancies twice the rate of last recession
Employers in Britain are planning more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession, new figures show.
About 180,000 job cuts were planned from January to March 2009, while 380,000 were planned from!-->!-->!-->…
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Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets".It became carbon-neutral in 2007 and says it has now compensated for all of the carbon it has ever created.It also aimed to run all of!-->…
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