The John Lewis Partnership has revealed it does not expect to reopen all its department stores as coronavirus lockdowns are eased. The company, which also includes the Waitrose supermarket chain in its stable, announced last year that it would not pay a bonus to its staff – known as partners – for the first time
Month: March 2021
Twenty-seven people have been killed after a bus carrying children and some parents plunged into a ravine in Indonesia. At least 39 more are injured after a suspected brakes malfunction caused the accident on Indonesia’s main island of Java late on Wednesday. The bus driver lost control of the vehicle shortly before the crash in
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is facing accusations that he groped one of his aides at his official residence late last year. It is the most serious allegation against the embattled governor to date after he was accused of harassment by five other women. An unidentified female aide was summoned to the governor’s executive mansion
Tiny cameras that are small enough to be swallowed and can film tumours in the gut are being trialled in the fight against cancer. Called PillCams, they’re encased in a capsule to make them easier to ingest, and it is hoped they can replace more invasive methods of screening. Around 11,000 patients across England will
The UK’s data protection laws face being reformed to be more business-friendly as the government aims to spur economic growth following the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital secretary Oliver Dowden said that Britain should take a “slightly less European approach” to privacy, referencing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), “by focusing
The executive director of the Society of Editors has resigned after the body came under fire for comments about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s accusations of racism. Ian Murray said he would step down from his role so the organisation can “rebuild its reputation”. The society had issued a strongly-worded statement following Harry and
Sir Keir Starmer is attempting to exploit the row over the 1% NHS pay offer in elections on “super Thursday”, by claiming “a vote for Labour is a vote to support our nurses”. He is launching his party’s campaign for elections in England, Scotland and Wales on 6 May, the biggest poll since the general
Speculation is growing in Tanzania about the mystery whereabouts of the country’s coronavirus-denying president after he failed to appear in public for more than a week. John Magufuli was last seen on 27 February at his secretary of state’s swearing-in ceremony at the State House government offices in Dar es Salaam. Politicians in Tanzania and
Boris Johnson has demanded the “immediate release” of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in a phone call with Iran’s president. A Downing Street spokesperson said: “The prime minister spoke to Iranian President Rouhani this afternoon. “The prime minister raised the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran and demanded their immediate release. “He
There are, of course, two versions of the complex story that still binds Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, decades after their break-up. Farrow’s is that Allen sexually assaulted their adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was seven years old, with the little girl’s description of alleged abuse captured on video. Allen, who has strenuously denied
It’s music’s biggest night, and this year’s Grammy Awards will set the tone for up and coming ceremonies across 2021. However, several artists who have been missed off the nominations list have been making their feelings felt ahead of Sunday’s show. British R&B star The Weeknd has said he’s going to boycott all future Grammys
A ban on evicting businesses has been extended to the end of June – but a property industry body said it was a “scandal” that some are not paying rent even though they can afford it. The government said a moratorium on landlords kicking firms out of their premises, due to expire at the end
Authorities in Russia are cracking down on social media companies in the wake of protests following the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It comes as the country’s media regulator Roskomnadzor also announced that it was throttling citizens’ access to Twitter, accusing the American company of failing to remove thousands of posts relating to drugs
Faith groups are leading the fight against vaccine misinformation on what one called the “lawless wasteland” of WhatsApp. Messages spreading fake COVID-19 information are widely shared on the private messaging app. This is often through a simple “forwarding” feature that copies messages to other contacts. But the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and other groups
Police searching for missing Sarah Everard have discovered human remains in woodland in Ashford, Kent. The 33-year-old went missing on Wednesday 3 March while walking back from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London to her home in Brixton. A serving Metropolitan Police officer was arrested on Tuesday night on suspicion of kidnap and later
Boris Johnson has been urged to explain how he could afford to give a 40% pay hike to his ex-aide Dominic Cummings and also spend millions on a new TV studio – but only give nurses a 1% salary increase. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of overseeing a real-terms pay cut
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