The £800 Townhouse dining table is an “elegant, sturdy classic” built for gathering round. Marsha Moore’s £20 melamine camping table, with a surface area of less than a square metre, is not, and certainly not where she imagined eating Christmas dinner. But Moore, a writer who recently moved into an unfurnished flat in London with her husband...
Britain could face “challenges” over the availability of presents this Christmas as a result of disruption to global supply chains, Downing Street has admitted. But minister Steve Barclay assured the cabinet this morning that concerns over supplies of festive food such as turkeys had now been “alleviated” by action on temporary visas. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting in Downing...
Tesco’s festive TV ad featuring Santa Claus bearing a Covid vaccine passport has prompted more than 1,500 complaints, making it the most complained-about advert of the year. The advert, titled “This Christmas, Nothing’s Stopping Us”, shows the public determined to enjoy a proper Christmas with family and friends after lockdown restrictions prevented gatherings last year. However, in...
Stats released today show UK-wide R rate has risen to 0.9 to 1 after it dropped to last week. The news will increase fears just two weeks before Christmas when the country is set to see a relaxation in COVID-19 restrictions for four days. And it comes off the back of a report about a...
Early Christmas shopping helped boost UK retail sales in October, despite tighter restrictions introduced across much of the country, official figures indicate. Sales volumes rose 1.2 per cent in October, surpassing forecasts of a 0.3 per cent fall. Online shopping drove retail sales higher for the sixth consecutive month. In-store sales were 3.3 per cent lower in October than...