Western Morning News (Saturday)
TRENDING TANKING
KIM KARDASHIAN
THE reality TV star, right, this week joined the billionaires’ club after she sold a 20% stake in her beauty company KKW Beauty to US cosmetic giant Coty for £162m. The move put the value of her business at $1bn (£815m). Kim said of the deal: “This relationship will allow me to focus on the creative elements that I’m so passionate about.”
GANGS OF LONDON
SKY has confirmed that its hit gangster series starring Colm Meaney, Joe Cole and Michelle Fairley will be renewed for a second series and we can’t wait... even if we did watch a lot of the first series through our fingers. Brutal doesn’t begin to cover it.
TONY HUDGELL
FIVE-YEAR-OLD Tony, who has two prosthetic legs, has completed a charity walk – raising more than £1m for the NHS hospital which saved his life. The youngster, who had his legs amputated in 2017, set out to raise £500 by walking 10km in 30 days. But donations for Evelina London Children’s Hospital have passed £1.1m.
DIRTY DANCING
THE Eighties classic, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, has been helping to get us through the lockdown. It topped a list of movies being rewatched by Brits during our enforced stay-at-home period. Dirty Dancing was followed in the survey, compiled by for Now TV, by Die Hard, The Wizard of Oz, the Star Wars saga and Mary Poppins.
THE social media giant has seen billions wiped off its share price after a host of household names pulled their advertising from the platform over its failure to curb hate speech. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign claims that Facebook is not doing enough to remove hateful content. Starbucks, Microsoft, Unilever and Coca-Cola are among the brands to have ‘paused’ their ads.
BROADWAY
NEW YORK’S famous theatreland is to stay ‘dark’ until 2021 as the city battles coronavirus. All 41 theatres that make up the district of Manhattan have been closed since March and will remain so for the rest of this year. Theatres in London’s famous West End are currently also still closed.
EASYJET & AIRBUS
BUDGET airline easyJet is planning to axe 4,500 staff and permanently close its bases at Newcastle, Stansted and Southend. Meanwhile aerospace giant Airbus is to shed 1,700 jobs in the UK. The job losses follow months of plane groundings due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
TM LEWIN
THE tailoring brand has announced plans to close all 66 UK stores, with 600 jobs set to be lost in the process. It will become online-only.