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The best Easter Eggs for your money

Money-saving site VoucherCodes.co.uk looked at the prices of nine best-selling chocolate eggs and how much they cost at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.




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Asda shopper is tackled to the ground by staff after 'coughing on them saying he had coronavirus'

A man was wrestled to the ground at the Asda Superstore in Greenhithe, Kent after he allegedly coughed on staff and said he had coronavirus. Police arrested him on April 7 and he has been charged.




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Asda security guard pays no attention to social distancing rules by manhandling shopper out of store

The filmer, 31, who wished to remain anonymous, witnessed the bust-up at her local Asda supermarket in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at around 2pm yesterday.




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Elderly man shocks shoppers as he browses supermarket aisles wearing a SANITARY TOWEL as a mask

The shopper was spotted in an Asda supermarket in Fife, Scotland, wearing a sanitary towel over his face as a mask. Shocked fellow shoppers did double takes and one took a video of the unusual mask.




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'I'll cut you up': Two boys are seen threatening employees outside Asda

Two boys are seen intimidating employees outside of the Asda store in Gosport, Hampshire, as staff attempt to guard the entrance to the supermarket on Bank Holiday Monday.




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Marcus Rashford reveals his charity work has raised £20MILLION for vulnerable kids in Manchester

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has revealed that his charity work has raised £20million for vulnerable children in Manchester.




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Aldi and Asda issue 'no touch' warnings for products and trolleys to prevent spread of coronavirus

The supermarkets chains are asking shoppers to only touch what they plan to buy or use in 'no touch' policy aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus and protecting staff and customers.




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Mother fought off paedophile after he swung a knife demanding car keys as he is jailed for six years

Duncan Johnson, 41, demanded Natalie Grimes' keys at an Asda car park in Liverpool as he tried to rob a vehicle with her daughter, seven, inside. He was jailed for six years after the incident in March.




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Game of Thrones actor joins Asda Belfast Shore Road as home delivery driver 

Game of Thrones actor Michael Condron has taking up a job as an Asda delivery driver at Northern Ireleand's Belfast Shore Road store, after acting projects were cancelled due to coronavirus.




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Household finances drastically hit by the coronavirus lockdown

The IHS Markit UK Household Finance Index, which measures households' perceptions of their financial wellbeing, plummeted to a reading of 34.9 in April from 42.5 in March.




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Calls for Royal Mail to cut fat-cat pay in response to coronavirus

Sir Vince Cable, who led the privatisation of Royal Mail in 2013, said a reduction to executive pay was the socially-responsible thing to do after bosses axed the dividend last month.




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Coronavirus: Why the oil price has gone negative

Unprecedented is a word that can often be badly used but it is appropriate when it comes to the current conditions in the oil market.




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Investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut

The former state monopoly decided to cancel its final payout to investors last month, to help bolster the balance sheet.




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The great oil price crash: Brent crude benchmark hits 21-year low in wake of drastic US slump 

Brent crude, which is extracted from the North Sea and serves as an international benchmark, fell to $18.10 a barrel.




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Fevertree share price jumps Britons buy drinks at convenience stores

Shares in AIM-listed Fevertree, which outsources most of its operations, rose over 13 per cent this afternoon after the group said the in-store arm of its business remained 'robust.'




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Laura Ashley rescued: Administrators agree deal with Gordon Brothers

The fashion and homeware store went bust last month after it failed to raise emergency cash from its owners, becoming the first household name to fall victim to the coronavirus lockdown.




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More than two million staff sign up for furlough in two days

HM Revenue & Customs revealed a further 124,000 companies rushed to apply for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on Tuesday, the second day it has been up and running.




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Worse to come for 'broken' oil market as pandemic causes oversupply

On a day of wild swings on global markets, brent crude briefly fell below $16 a barrel - the lowest level this century. It later recovered, surging 10 per cent to more than $21 last night.




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MARKET REPORT: Slump in electricity demand shocks Centrica's shares

The utility giant was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 after US investment bank Jefferies downgraded its stock from 'buy' to 'hold' and slashed earnings forecasts by a third.




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Virus grants are postcode lottery for small firms

Councils have handed out £6.1bn, almost half the £12.3bn they received from Government this month. Grants of up to £25,000 have been received by 491,725 small businesses




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Jackpotjoy / Virgin Games owner ends television and radio advertising

Gamesys was praised for acknowledging that children and vulnerable customers who are bored are being placed at risk by the lockdown. Betting companies have been urged to protect players.




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Just Eat's £6.2bn merger with Takeaway.com is cleared by watchdog 

The online food delivery firm's merger got the go-ahead from the Competition and Markets Authority, who was 'satisfied there are no competition concerns' after its probe of the deal.




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Norton Motorcycles 'will be restored to former glory', says new owner

India's TVS Motor, which bought the British brand out of administration for £16m earlier this month, is reportedly set to invest tens of millions of pounds in the luxury motorbike maker.




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Unilever pays out dividend but warns virus crisis means a 'new normal'

Chief exec Alan Jope said he expects the pandemic to prompt lasting changes in behaviour, with strong demand for cleaning products set to continue while the dining industry could face a slow recovery.




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'A divisive waste of money': Standard Life Aberdeen pulls out of Davos

Standard Life Aberdeen Chief exec Keith Skeoch has come to the view that attending next January would be insensitive to the grim realities of life in the pandemic for millions of ordinary people.




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Rates to stay at 0.1% until end of next year

The Bank of England is likely to keep rates frozen at the all-time low of 0.1 per cent until at least the end of 2021, according to a poll of economists by Reuters.




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MARKET REPORT: Pearson pledges to pay dividend

The education group will hand back £102m to shareholders - or 13.5p per share - after boss John Fallon insisted the company was in a 'strong financial position'.




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Persimmon to restart construction work within days

The company said it will resume building from April 27. Workers will follow strict social distancing rules - except for work deemed 'essential' that requires them to stand closer together.




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Burberry shuns coronavirus furlough scheme

The British fashion stalwart said a third of its workers would remain at home on full pay, without a penny being billed to the taxpayer, while bosses have taken a 20 per cent pay cut.




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Britain's economy sinks into deep-freeze as output plummets

The closely-watched Markit/CIPS Flash UK Composite Purchasing Managers' Index fell to a new record low of 12.9 - down precipitously from an already low reading 36 in March.




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Big Short boss gets caught out by coronavirus crisis

Steve Eisman told investors last week that the Neuberger Berman Absolute Alpha Fund had dropped nearly 5 per cent in March as the Covid-19 crisis took hold.




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Taylor Wimpey boss: Give us a plan to get ALL firms back to work

Pete Redfern, the chief executive of FTSE 100 firm Taylor Wimpey, has broken ranks with rival bosses to push the Government to outline a plan to end lockdown.




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Will Sainsbury's bail out its own bank?

Experts at Barclays have speculated that the supermarket chain could be forced to 'inject capital' into Sainsbury's Bank.




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STOCK WATCH: Fears grow that BP's Alaska sale may prove half-baked

With oil prices tumbling, investors will be glued to the first-quarter results due out from BP and Shell on Tuesday and Thursday respectively.




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EasyJet on course for a rescue cash battle with Stelios

EasyJet is heading for its biggest showdown yet with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou amid growing speculation in the City that the airline may ask investors to stump up rescue cash.




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Mike Ashley's Frasers asks suppliers to cut 20% off unpaid bills

Ashley's chains, which include Sports Direct and House of Fraser, have been forced to close amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and are in arrears to suppliers.




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Rise in abuse by customers prompts Lloyds to protect staff

The bank wants to discourage 'non-essential' customer visits after some of its staff complained in a union survey that irate members of the public had spat on them.




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John Lewis ready to reopen shops in May

Andrew Murphy, John Lewis Partnership's executive director of operations, said the chain could begin reopening some stores as soon as the middle of next month.




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UK Airline industry wants wage subsidy scheme extended

Tim Alderslade, the chief executive of industry body Airlines UK, wrote to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, saying that carriers will face a 'renewed cash crisis' if the job support scheme is withdrawn.




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Furloughing fat cat bosses pocketed over £300m in five years

There are mounting calls for super-rich fat cat executives to play a bigger part in shouldering the financial burden stemming from the crisis, which will end up hitting taxpayers hard in the pocket.




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Lloyds Bank lags UK rivals on coronavirus loans

Though it is one of the largest lenders to small and medium-sized firms, it has only approved a tiny percentage of loans made under the Government's Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.




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Companies must show restraint on bosses' pay

The Investment Association said firms will need 'to take account of their individual circumstances particularly considering the impact on their stakeholders' when deciding executive pay.




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Easyjet bosses set for showdown with founder Haji-Ioannou

Following a row over the cost of new planes, Haji-Ioannou is trying to oust chief executive Johan Lundgren and chairman John Barton at an extraordinary shareholder meeting on May 22.




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Brokers prey on businesses desperate for coronavirus lending

Treasury officials and the City watchdog expressed concern after it emerged a company is charging £500 upfront, then a percentage of the value of the loan if the application is successful.




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MARKET REPORT: Royal Mail shares rise after a first class verdict

Royal Mail is poised to benefit from the new reliance on web sales. Citigroup Analysts bestowed a rare double upgrade on the 504-year-old postal service, moving it from 'sell' to 'buy'.




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Reform furlough scheme to save jobs, says think-tank Reform

Think-tank Reform is calling on Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor (pictured), to let businesses bring back employees on reduced hours but still receive some state support as lockdown is lifted.




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BP promises to pay a £1.7bn dividend despite 'brutal' environment

Many had been worried BP would have to cut or axe the payout after oil prices began tanking in late January. But the energy giant has raised the amount it will give to shareholders.




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M&S defies pressure to cut executive pay packages

Chief exec Steve Rowe (pictured) will still take his full £810,000 salary plus bonuses this year despite asking long-suffering savers and the taxpayer to prop up the ailing business.




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British Airways planning 12,000 redundancies

Coronavirus has wiped out demand and IAG believes it will take several years for air travel to recover to 2019 levels.




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Cath Kidston staff 'betrayed' over redundancy pay

Bosses at the company's owner, Barings Asia, are withholding the severance payment. Instead staff have been been told to apply for government handouts.