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Coronavirus has caused a significant impact on the way consumers shop and make payments. With social distancing rules in place, many of them have embraced contactless payments and digital wallets as a safer way to manage their money. According to data gathered by AksjeBloggen, the global digital payments market is […]
Whilst buying a new car may be pretty low-down on your lockdown to-do list, the discounts on offer currently with car dealers may actually mean that now could be a great time to buy your next car. Here’s why: The government has updated lockdown guidance for car dealersThe government has recently […]
Retailers reported a steep drop in sales in the year to April – matching the decline in December 2008, marking the joint sharpest fall since the survey began in July 1983. The CBI’s monthly Distributive Trades Survey (conducted between 27 March 2020 and 15 April 2020) reveals that retailers expect […]
Lancashire Volunteer Partnership are offering a telephone befriending service to people across Lancashire that are lonely / vulnerable at this time. Are you concerned about a member of your family or neighbour being lonely or vulnerable at the moment? Loneliness and self-isolation can be hard at the best of times […]
A facility to cope with a significant increase in bereavements is being built in Lancashire as a contingency measure as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary morgue will ensure that the county can respond to the emergency whilst ensuring the deceased continue to be treated […]
NHS GP Dr Gero Baiarda is one of the hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GPDQ – the UK’s leading GP-on-demand service. Since launching his ‘myth-busting’ series 10 days ago Dr Baiarda has become the media ‘go-to’ for information on what to believe in the interest of our health during […]
With a worldwide health pandemic, people irrationally panic buying and a countrywide lockdown, you’d be forgiven for thinking the end of the world was nigh. It can be costly to panic buy five years worth of loo roll and hand sanitizer, so leading tradesperson comparison site, HaMuch.com, has looked at […]
Coronavirus: global economy could be in recovery mode within SIX MONTHS – but on two conditions The global economy is likely to be headed for recovery from a coronavirus-triggered downturn within six months – but only if mass testing is rolled out now and governments guarantee to support demand. The prediction […]
New culture of barter as people trade on local goodwill As Britain lives under coronavirus lockdown, people up and down the country are turning to friends and neighbours for help and support in a way that hasn’t been seen for decades. According to a UK based health and safety software […]
As we’re sure you’ll be aware, to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 the government has asked everyone to stay home for all but essential travel. That means using your car only for the most essential journeys like shopping for basic necessities, attending to medical needs or, if you cannot […]
