There has been recent promising news about 3 COVID-19 vaccine candidates, prompting thoughts to shift to distribution and delivery.Mathematical models predict that the pandemic will kill more people, if wealthy countries buy all of the vaccines first, than if vaccines were distributed equally.Canada, Japan, the UK, and...
Burberry has announced science based targets, expanding its aim to build a more sustainable future for fashion. Building on the environmental targets already included in the company's responsibility strategy for 2022, the British luxury fashion house has set two new, ambitious climate goals approved by the Science...
Metro Bank has raised £375mn ($478mn) to repair its balance sheet, giving the British bank breathing space ahead of a potentially fractious annual meeting tomorrow. The nine-year-old challenger bank’s market value fell more than £1.5bn after disclosing in January it had under-reported the risk of its loan...
Centrica, the owner of British
Gas, is to cut 5,000 jobs this year to "arrest the decline" of the
company. The company has been losing customers to rivals and, in February,
blamed a big loss in 2019 on the energy price cap and falling gas
prices. Centrica also said the coronavirus crisis had...
British retailers reported that their sales fell at the gentlest pace in six months in October but uncertainty about Brexit contributed to the highest stock levels on record, an industry survey showed. The Confederation of British Industry said on Monday its monthly index of reported sales rose...
The fundamentals of the Bangladesh economy still remains sound even though it has been badly affected by Covid-19, British high commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton said on Monday. In a virtual event he said that foreign direct investment (FDI), including from Britain, would be very important for...
The UK government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under a multi-million pound grant scheme to boost recycling of textiles. This could include machinery for recycling textiles, technology for disassembling or sorting textiles, automated processes for removing items such as zips, and technology to sort textiles...
A resolute European Union sought on Friday to turn the page on Brexit and move on to negotiating a looser, less favourable trading relationship with its departing British partner. Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier will present his draft negotiating directives to the media on Monday as Brussels...