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The group said it would consider any and all options if a second wave of coronavirus triggered the same shutdown of global air travel as earlier this year.

In a move welcomed by investors, new chief executive Amanda Blanc (pictured) said the insurer would be focusing on its ‘core operations’ in the UK as well as in Ireland and Canada.

The e-commerce titan’s 56-year-old boss sold 1m shares in his company in a series of transactions as part of an arranged trading plan on Monday and Tuesday, newly released filings show.

Maybe it will come as a huge relief to learn that the Bank of England is no longer forecasting the worst downturn in 300 years and only the biggest for a century but then again maybe not.

The decision to scrap the dividend will cost the 63-year-old tycoon (pictured) and the rest of the company’s so-called ‘billionaire boys’ club’ of current and former top dogs more than £400m.

A string of big names – including Carluccio’s, Cafe Rouge and menswear retailer TM Lewin – have already collapsed into administration as the pandemic wreaks havoc on the High Street.

Summer getaways abroad have been all but cancelled. The decision to pull Spain off the quarantine-free list prompted many Brits to set their sights on escapes closer to home.

The broadcaster, behind including hit Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon (pictured), said profits fell from £222m to £15m in the first six months of the year, even as its viewing figures rose during the lockdown.

The Japan-based company raked in 106.5 billion yen for the three months to June, which was more than a six-fold increase from the same period last year, it said on Thursday.

Andrew Bailey and the rest of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee think the UK’s economy now looks set to shrink by 9.5 per cent this year.