Delta Air Lines, among others, are turning to Pinal Airpark some 90 miles south of Phoenix, to keep planes in good condition while they are not in use during the global health crisis. Via: Delta, United, and other airlines are sending their largest planes to the desert for storage
As the number of coronavirus cases in the UK reaches 3,269 with 144 deaths, and workers are confined to carrying out their duties from home, shops are still being stripped bare. Via: Coronavirus UK: Panic-buyers leave the vulnerable without food
French police are aggressively arresting citizens ignoring the ‘social distancing’ directives from authorities. The interior minister branded them ‘idiots’ for still gathering in public. Via: France may extend coronavirus lockdown as police aggressively arresting those who break curfew
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The pound is up as European markets rebound and the UK waits for details of the chancellor’s plan to protect wages in response to Covid-19M&S considers temporary store closuresUK will experience a deep, short recession, analysts sayCompetition watchdog launches Covid-19 taskforceBank of England cancels 2020 stress testsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee Read more
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‘I wish for my life the first minister was a better man and I was not here,’ lawyer tells jury Via: Alex Salmond 'could have been better man', defence barrister tells court
There’s something unsettling in seeing the prime minister repurpose his Brexit media strategy for a deadly contagionBritain. A nation of shopfighters, presided over at a time of mortal peril by a newspaper columnist, who has for three decades moonlighted as his generation’s leading liar. Still, as the words clawed into Read more
Warning over emails claiming to be from World Health Organisation and other official bodies Via: Coronavirus: Warning over rise of fraud scams exploiting outbreak as UK losses near £1m
Amount is less than a fifth of average weekly earnings in UK Via: Coronavirus: Matt Hancock admits he couldn't live on statutory sick pay