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People will have to wear face coverings in shops, takeaways, and supermarkets in England from today.more

Brits working from home during lockdown have turned to the comforts of coffee, tea and biscuits, and a good book.more

McDonald’s has announced they are reopening 700 of their restaurants with table service from tomorrow onwards.more

Marks & Spencer (M&S) will serve notice this week of imminent plans for hundreds of job cuts as it becomes the latest prominent retailer to restructure its workforce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.more

IKEA is set to launch a vegan version of its much-loved meatballs in a bid to be more sustainable. The Swedish furniture giant will sell the plant-based treat in its food halls across the UK from 3rd August.more

There's 40p off meals, 50p off breakfasts and cuts to everything from coffee to Big Macs and nuggets.more

Johnnie Walker, the whisky which traces its roots back 200 years, will soon be available in paper bottles. more

The "small-batch dry gin" is made from 12 botanicals, several of which are from the garden at the Queen's London residence.more

The pandemic means that every sixth Pole buys online, according to a Santander Consumer Bank study. Online shopping makes 17 percent. inhabitants, in medium-sized cities, such as Kielce or Radom, this percentage is 9 percent - we read.more

In Germany, those willing to install a swimming pool in the garden are celebrated with a pass - there is no chance at least until November. Garden pools sold out on the trunk, wholesalers have been empty for several weeks - today the "Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung” informs.more

Budget supermarket Lidl has unveiled plans to open a new store every week until Christmas, creating 1,000 jobs, and then keep going into next year and the year after until 100 new shops are openmore

The UK economy grew by 1.8% in May as businesses across the country started to unlock. But the figures from the Office of National Statistics will have done little to boost hopes of a V-shaped recovery as the economy remains much smaller than in February earlier this year before lockdown was implemented.more

Wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets in England is to become mandatory from 24 July.more

Liz Truss, Minister for International Trade, denied that Great Britain is preparing to lower food safety standards in order to reach a trade agreement with the US. She indicated that "a common market with a third country does not mean inferior food."more

Royal Mail has been fined £1.5m by the regulator for being late with first class deliveries and overcharging customers for second class stamps.more

The Government is set to spend more than £700 million on new infrastructure, staff and technology to create new border with the EU when the UK leaves at the end of the year.more

A series of leading UK supermarkets have told Business Insider that they will never sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef from the US, in a blow to those pushing for UK food standards to be dropped in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Trump.more

Burger King UK’s boss has warned that up to 1,600 jobs could be lost as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.more

Thousands of workers whose jobs put them at higher risk of catching coronavirus will be tested even if they have no symptoms.more

The UK government has nominated former cabinet minister Liam Fox as its candidate to lead the World Trade Organization.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Germany’s Angela Merkel that the UK is ready to do without a trade deal if the European Union (EU) is not prepared to compromise. more

The giant on the fast-fashion market - Boohoo - commissioned an independent company to perform an audit to check the conditions in which their clothes are sewn in Great Britain. The decision was made after some stores withdrew Boohoo clothing from their offer.more

The European Commission published its latest report on the Commission's system to prevent or restrict the selling of dangerous products on the market, the so-called ‘Rapid Alert System'. The report shows that the number of actions taken by authorities following an alert is growing year on year, reaching 4,477 in 2019 compared to 4050 in 2018.more

Radical plans to give all adults £500 and children £250 in vouchers to spend in sectors of the economy worst hit by the Covid-19 crisis are being considered by the Treasury.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that today's loosening of restrictions introduced due to the coronavirus epidemic is the biggest step towards normality so far, and has again appealed to his countrymen not to spoil what has already been achieved.more