NEWS
Airports ‘may cut 20,000 jobs’ unless rates relaxed
Airports are set to axe up to 20,000 jobs unless the Government intervenes by waiving business rates to help them cope with the Covid-19 crisis, ministers have been warned. The Airports Operators Association (AOA) today announces its appeal for urgent business rates relief to bring the industry in line with the hospitality, leisure and retail sectors and other nations that have benefited from such support – Telegraph
Police guard the exits as hundreds of vegetable farm staff who live in trailers are ordered to self-isolate after 73 co-workers test positive for coronavirus at supplier to Tesco, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda and M&S – Mail
Twelve-year-old boy arrested after Wilfried Zaha suffers racist abuse on social media – Telegraph
Britons demand ‘ludicrous’ foreign aid budget is slashed as they face huge tax rises – Express
JK Rowling’s handprints outside Edinburgh council offices are smeared with ‘blood-like’ red paint by vandals amid ‘transphobic’ row – Mail
COMMENT
Our fearful leaders are failing to stand up to the radical woke minority – Nick Timothy, Telegraph
Xi Jinping is the one running this racket, not his people – Matthew Syed, Times
