More than 500 jobs lost as Monsoon Accessorize shuts 35 stores

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furlough since the start of lockdown with more than 1 million businesses applying for financial support through the UK Government’s Job Retention Scheme. Almost nine million British workers are having their wages paid by the UK Government through the scheme with the state paying for up to 80 per cent of an employee's salary while they stay at home.

my constituents work at the Renfrewshire plant and they are understandably fearful for their futures, especially when unemployment is on the rise and job vacancies are falling to an all-time low. What worries me most is that Rolls-Royce is considered a symbol of high quality, an icon of Britain’s historic prowess in engineering and manufacturing.We must do everything that we can to save livelihoods.

Braehead is facing administration which has put thousands of jobs at risk in Scotland. The Renfrew shopping centre could never reopen as bosses remain locked in crunch talks with lenders in a desperate bid to settle their debt.

More than 3,500 workers in the British film and TV industry have signed an open letter calling for senior figures and decision makers to make several "strategic commitments" to reshape the landscape of the sector and "tackle structural and systemic racism." The letter comes a week after the Black Film Collective issued a similar statement to Hollywood, with its creators — including producer Nisha Parti (The Boy With the Top Knot), actor-writer Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me), actor Indira

When Maria Teresa Kumar was nine years-old, she became a citizen of the United States along with her mom. The pair had immigrated from Bogota, Columbia, after her mother fell in love with and married an English teacher working there. The new family then moved to Sonoma, California.

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorMaria Kyriacou, the president of ViacomCBS Networks UK and Australia, has been named as the new chair of Britain’s Creative Diversity Network.Kyriacou succeeds Jill Offman, who left ViacomCBS earlier this year, and will lead the organization until the end of 2020, helping it promote diversity and inclusion in the UK television industry.Kyriacou said: “I look forward to championing the vital work that CDN is doing at a time when actionable diversity and

Actor Rebecca Hall comes from a unique and interesting pedigree and lineage. There’s the surface element of that pedigree which could be seen as aristocratic privilege in the world of the arts.

Twenty more people have died after contracting coronavirus in Greater Manchester.