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AZN are not working on a covid19 vaccine as stated by Pascal Sorios on the Today programme last week. However, they do have a vaccine production facility that they are willing to give over to any potential candidate vaccine if a rapid ramp up is required to get it into clinical trials or full scale production..

Never heard of her or her "Quill Intelligence" analytics firm or Bet-David and his "Valuetainment Youtube channel, but he looks like another click bait self-publicist on the make trying to spread his views via social media to me. So she is firmly anti-Fed and anti-China so what? YouTube is awash with this s**t at the moment and it will probably get more confused and acrimonious as the US election gets nearer. Better things to do.

The Virgin Atlantic loan faces certain headwinds both political and practical. Firstly, giving money to a billionaire with the kind of playboy lifestyle enjoyed by Branson is never going to go down well with a certain sector of the electorate and that probably includes most of those who voted conservative for the first time last year (few of who can afford to fly with his airline anyway). Secondly, VA is 49% owned by Delta Airlines (USA), so a government loan could be seen as propping up a non-UK company with access to other sources of finance. Personally , I would ignore both and grant the loan for the sake of businesses like RR, who were already in enough trouble before Covid19 came along with the wrecking ball.

Apparently in danger of collapse with the Australian business going under first. Apparently Rolls Royce along with Airbus and Heathrow were signatories to a letter last week warning the government that if Virgin Atlantic is allowed to fold the effects on the UK-based aviation supply chain would be catastrophic. So far both the Australian and UK governments show no signs of yielding and offering loans, even on commercial terms.

Very sad that he has passed under these circumstances. An animal on the pitch though, would not last 5 minutes in the PL these days. Remember the stand up fight with Franny Lee! On balance Cloughie had it right and for me Don Revie's team will always be dirty, dirty Leeds! Still I hope they go up under Bielsa, he is class.

Since when did complete and utter self interest become "leadership and management"? I do not hate the man, I simply think that he is stupid, inept and morally bankrupt. Other than that I wish him nothing but good.

STD I read the Telegraph myself. Oh and Zurich is the last place on earth I would want to be holed up in a lock-down as it is one of the most boring cities in the world (even Basel has Fastnacht if you like noise). The last good thing to come out of Zurich was Dieter Meier and Yello.....nothing since.

Its the Daily Mail FCS! How else are they going whip their aging but loyal neo-con audience into a frenzy of faux outrage so they can bang on about it for weeks? Ditto Daily Express. Neither rag is fit for owt but bog paper and the Express would have linked the story to the death of Princess Di (or blamed Meghan Markle) as well.

Absolutely hilarious in my view. What was it all for? The idea that UK citizens would flock to the fields was just a pipedream and I suspect most would not make it through the first week without quitting. This is getting more like an episode of the thick of it every day!

Eastern European farm workers are being flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops. Air Charter Service has told the BBC that the first flight will land on Thursday in Stansted carrying 150 Romanian farm workers. The firm told the BBC that the plane is the first of up to six set to operate between mid-April and the end of June.

Eastern European farm workers are being flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops. Air Charter Service has told the BBC that the first flight will land on Thursday in Stansted carrying 150 Romanian farm workers. The firm told the BBC that the plane is the first of up to six set to operate between mid-April and the end of June.

Wids give the 1984 big brother doom scenario bulls**t a rest will you? it gets very wearing after a while. Go read the Taxpayers Alliance Manifesto ie. The Daily Express if you want to cheer yourself up, but don't inflict it on the rest of us. Thanks.

No :-)

repeatedly stated on here that "this was no worse than seasonal flu' and that "deaths from Covid19 would not significantly affect the overall UK mortality figures" today's report from the Office for National Statistics will make uncomfortable reading. The report states that " For the week ending April 3rd, Covid19 helped push the total number of deaths to more than 16,000, a record high and 6,000 more than expected at this time of year. Normally the number of deaths falls as winter ends because there is less flu circulating. ONS official Nick Stripe said it was clear the coronavirus pandemic had reversed that trend, saying the rising number of deaths was "hugely significant" given it had happened at the start of April. "This is not normal," he added. Christ knows what the death toll would have been without the lock-down and the numbers they are presenting do not include deaths at home or in care homes for the elderly where there is an absence of testing for the virus.

Normally the number of deaths falls as winter ends.

This is because there is less flu circulating.

Diageo doles out interim dividend payment but stops share buyback for 2020.

Aviva, Direct Line and Hiscox 2019 divis cancelled today

Lufthansa is closing its Germanwings budget airline as part of a wider cutback driven by a decline in travel due to the coronavirus. The German airline said it would de-commission more than 40 aircraft, warning that it does not expect demand to return for "years". It said it would also reduce fleets in its other businesses, which include Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Eurowings. Lufthansa's moves could be a hint of more drastic steps to come elsewhere. "You can't understate the disaster that's unfolding right now in the world's airline industry. There's no sugar coating it," said Richard Aboulafia, aviation analyst at Teal Group.

Not really other than it has been remarkably resilient and there may have been some profit taking anticipating another dip? Soriot on Radio 4 this am was very impressive talking about the joint effort between AZN, GSK and Cambridge University to get mass Covid19 testing up and running. He also said that although AZN are not involved in Covid19 vaccine development, they do have a production facility that could be sued to make it once available.

Sorry to dash your hopes of a US takeover, but those were scuppered by the new US tax inversion rules as of 2016. Remember Pfizer were due to take over Allergan that year (long after the failed AZN bid) and the new tax rules stopped it going ahead. Had the transaction been completed, at $160 billion it would have been the largest within the industry.

Sorry but you appear to be yet another conspiracy theorist nutter. I suspected as much from the fact that your sentence ended "from the Novichok programme in Salisbury" I took this as an error of wording on your part rather than implying that it was self-inflicted and not the Russians at all. I was obviously wrong.