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Cost of living: Boxing Day sales drop

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XG0zsiXV0FwBoxing Day footfall at shops went down by nearly a third, compared to pre-pandemic levels. How much of that is down to internet shopping and the rail strikes isn't clear, but the cost of living…

COVID-19: City centres shunned post-lockdown across UK

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HNekJsXeRBERoland Manthorpe looks at who's travelling where post-lockdown. Traders in many city centres in the UK are suffering because office workers stayed home during the coronavirus crisis. But are they now returning to the office?…

Boots and John Lewis cut thousands of jobs…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2zYI_titr3cTwo of the UK's biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced more than 5,000 job cuts. 4,000 jobs will go at Boots and 48 Boots Opticians stores will be closed. 1,300 jobs…

Thousands of job losses as UK government accused…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_9qWqx5F-X0Ministers have been accused of “sitting on the sidelines” as companies announce thousands of job losses, due to the coronavirus pandemic. In recent days 12,000 redundancies have been announced, most of them in high street…

Watch again: UK is ‘not out of the…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RwjkT0mw0rEAn additional 38 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, bringing the country's total deaths to 41,736, the Department of Health has said. The daily death figure (as of 5pm Sunday)…

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Coronavirus crisis: govt borrowing hits record level –…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5rdD048e-j0Government borrowing has surged to its highest level on record, underlining the scale of the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The deficit, the difference between government spending and tax receipts, soared to more…