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Quirke’s double tips seesaw contest Sale’s way and sinks Harlequins
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It remains to be seen if Raffi Quirke’s name will feature when Eddie Jones announces his England squad on Monday for the autumn internationals but on this evidence an international future surely beckons. The 20-year-o...
UK car sales plunge but electric vehicles soar to record amid fuel crisis
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Sales of new cars in the UK tumbled to the weakest September total for more than two decades as the global shortages of semiconductors hit the sector, but it was a record month for electric vehicles amid panic-buying ...
Greggs warns of rising costs and shortages as it reports bigger sales
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Britain’s biggest bakery chain, Greggs, has warned of staff and ingredient shortages and said costs would rise this year, as it reported higher sales for the past three months. The company – known for its sausage roll...
UK new car sales tumble in September amid chip shortages – business live
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Hydroxychloroquine sales spiked almost 100% in Australia at start of Covid pandemic, study finds
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The amount of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin dispensed from Australian pharmacies increased significantly in 2020 as the Covid pandemic took hold, according to new research. Analysis of six publicly subsidised drug...
Ding dong, Avon now calling with ‘omni-channel’ cosmetic sales in a digital age
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Avon may soon be calling you into shops and live-streamed shopping events as well as at your front door as the cosmetics and skincare brand moves on from the doorstep into the digital age. The company, which was found...
British gangs and international rivals join forces to increase cocaine sales
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British organised crime groups are collaborating closely with former international rivals like the Italian mafia to import increasingly bigger cocaine shipments into Europe, a senior investigator has revealed. Lawren...
Halfords joins list of firms hit by supply chain problems as bike sales dive 26%
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Halfords has blamed “considerable disruption” in global supply chains for a 26% dive in bike sales during spring and summer. The retailer, which has 404 stores selling cycling and motoring kit, said availability of ad...
UK car sales fell in August as supply chain problems bite – business live
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Marvel’s Shang-Chi smashes Labor Day record with $71.4m in ticket sales
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The Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings smashed the record for Labor Day openings with an estimated $71.4m in ticket sales on what’s traditionally one of America’s sleepiest weekends at the movies, g...
UK enjoys property sales boom amid Covid-19 pandemic
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Hard-to-sell homes are being snapped up by the hundred as Britain’s booming property market maintains a year-long breakneck sales record. In areas of high demand, even the most knocked-about and idiosyncratic houses a...
Leaded petrol era ‘officially over’ as Algeria ends pump sales
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The era of leaded petrol is officially over, the UN has announced, eliminating a major threat to human and planetary health. UN experts have called the use of the fuel, which began in 1922, a “catastrophe for the envi...
UK house sales tumble in July after stamp duty holiday deadline
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House sales tumbled by almost two-thirds in July after tens of thousands of homebuyers rushed to complete their purchases in order to beat Rishi Sunak’s end-of-June stamp duty holiday deadline. Following a record surg...
Luxury watch sales surge as Britons go on spending spree with lockdown savings
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The UK’s biggest seller of Rolex and Omega watches said sales had surged as Britons splashed lockdown savings on luxury watches and jewellery, including wedding and engagement rings. Watches of Switzerland’s UK sales ...
‘Sales funnels’ and high-value men: the rise of strategic dating
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Rebekah Campbell remembers the moment she knew things had to change. “I got to age 34 and woke up one Christmas morning on a fold-out bed in the garage of some friends of my parents and was like, ‘I don’t want to live...
Warhammer maker Games Workshop hands staff £5,000 bonus after lockdown sales surge
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Warhammer retailer Games Workshop is handing its shop workers, model makers, designers and support staff a £5,000 bonus after sales and profits surged during the pandemic. The Nottingham-based company behind the popul...