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Rishi Sunak will announce on Wednesday that the Treasury is extending its furlough scheme until the end of September in an attempt to safeguard jobs as a fragile economy emerges from the Covid-19 emergency

The upmarket chocolatier said online sales more than offset a decline at its stores, which had to shut down due to lockdown and Tier 4 restrictions at the end of last year.

Nostalgic TV wins out as lockdown Britons turn to the familiar Just over a quarter of respondents to the survey admitted tuning in to TV during the day when they should have been working 22 February 2021 • 6:00am The cast of Desperate Housewives, which was chosen by women as their lockdown guilty pleasure Credit: Chris Pizzello/Reuters Locked-down Britons have turned to nostalgic TV shows to pass the time during the pandemic, with a quarter even admitting to tuning in during working hours. A ...

Locked-down Britons are today questioning if the Covid crackdown has gone too far after a jogger was stopped by a marshal for breathing heavily. Bizarre footage shows a perplexed jogger being collared by a Covid marshal while on a riverside run in west London. Asked why he is being stopped, the jogger is told by the high-vis wearing security guard: Because you are breathing heavily. Baffled Gary Purnell, who filmed the incident, described it as the craziest thing in the world.  But council chi...