Fox and chinchilla fur are expected to fill the gap left at luxury fashion houses after Denmark culled all its mink – as many as 17 million – following Covid-19 outbreaks at hundreds of farms across the country. The global fur trade, which is worth more than £16.5 billion,
The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the failure of airlines to offer cash refunds to travellers who have been unable to take their flights because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its move followed reports that
Forget heavy foundation, contouring and other layers of product building up on the face: beauty in 2021 will be all about minimalism. It’s basically a continuation of 2020, but without the constraints and the forced nature of this year’s trends – i.e.,
Dominic Cummings’s lockdown trip to Barnard Castle was “deeply unfortunate”, and undermined the government’s public health messages, one of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers has admitted. Justice secretary Robert Buckland was asked on the BBC if he thought the prime minister’s former chief adviser had broken the coronavirus
Ursula von der Leyen has dismissed Boris Johnson’s likening EU demands in Brexit trade talks to being forced to buy a new handbag on threat of “punishment”. The prime minister said on Thursday night that the bloc’s proposed “level playing field” for regulations amounted
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said her government will propose the timescale and question for a second referendum on Scottish independence by next spring. Ms Sturgeon claimed challenges of the coronavirus pandemic will act as an accelerant rather than as a brake on the
The government’s test-and-trace programme to combat Covid-19 in England has repeatedly failed to meet targets for delivering test results and contacting infected people despite costs escalating to £22bn, a damning official report has revealed. The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the centralised
It has become an article of faith when discussing Manchester United that whenever Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needs a result, he gets one. And strangely enough, that result often comes against Manchester City. This time last year, a thrilling backs-to-the-wall victory at the Etihad decided by United’s ability on
Valtteri Bottas says he is paying no attention to the rumours suggesting he could be replaced by George Russell at Mercedes for 2021 but is aware that he can do “much better” than he has in recent races. Although seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was absent for
A Sudanese singer whose television appearance on The Voice brought him threats from security officers is facing deportation from the Netherlands, where he has lived for two years. Mohamed al-Tayeb, 30, who appeared on the Arabic version of the show in 2015, has
