Super stacker
LOTTERY winner Elaine Thompson truly is a great British grafter – she’s stacking shelves on the M&S nightshift despite scooping £2.7million a quarter of a century ago.
It seems this Geordie lass never forgot her roots or the value of money. With the shameful panic buying we’ve seen recently, Elaine’s certainly got her work cut out.
BEDS are laid out in a conference centre which has been turned into a makeshift hospital ready to receive coronavirus patients in Madrid.
Two hundred beds have been set up in two halls at the IFEMA conference centre for patients with “mild” cases. But it is gearing up to hold 1,300 beds if the crisis escalates.
RISHI Sunak is under pressure to speed up plans to bail out five million self-employed workers whose livelihoods could vanish “in the blink of an eye”.
Business groups and unions have urged the Chancellor to do more to help Britain’s freelancers, contractors, self-employed and creatives – who were offered just £94 a week.
Mr Sunak confirmed plans last week for at-risk employees to have up to 80% of their wages paid, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.
He is now “actively considering” ways to plug the gaps in the support package amid claims he had “left behind” the self-employed.
British Chamber of Commerce director general Dr Adam Marshall warned that thousands of sole traders need immediate help to survive as their livelihoods “vanish”.
He said: “The government has taken massive steps to help businesses. Ministers must now ramp up support for the self-employed, many of whom have seen their livelihoods vanish in the blink of an eye.
“There are five million people who need help similar in scale and scope to that put in place for larger firms.”
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “The government took a big and important step last week with support for employed workers. It’s only right that they
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