Fewer than four million passengers travelled through the west London airport in the first half of the year.

Heathrow Airport's pandemic losses hit £2.9bn

A negative lateral flow test next to advice from the NHS COVID app on an iphone to self isolate. Picture date: Tuesday July 20, 2021.


For many it means losing even more money after facing the financial difficulties of closing during the pandemic.

Disruption caused by Covid app 'hard to take' after months of restrictions

Airport bosses revealed just 957,000 passengers passed through its terminals in June compared with 7,246,157 who used the west London airport in June 2019.

Heathrow passenger numbers remain almost 90% down on pre-pandemic levels

Mr Moxon, owner of Moxon's fishmonger chain

Amazon has registered “prime day”, which is its slogan for an annual two-day event of deals and offers for its Prime members, as a trademark.

Amazon apologises after demanding fishmonger drops ‘prime day’ advertising

People out on Old Compton Street in London, ahead of a national lockdown for England from Thursday.


Several pledges have been made to stop employers making deductions from money left for staff by customers, although legislative action has failed to materialise

Hospitality businesses forced to hand all tips to staff under proposed law

London's battered night-time economy faces the real threat of "extinction" as clubs keep doors closed for up to four more weeks, a nightclub manager has warned.

Huge debts and fears of extinction: Night-time economy fights for survival

A woman wearing a face mask walks past an empty shop unit at a shopping centre in Victoria, central

"London businesses have been hit hard. To take that support away at this point in time would be devastating," said one London business leader.

London businesses 'on cliff edge' as Covid financial help is wound down

The Sondheim Theatre in London's Shaftesbury Avenue which was showing Les Miserables before it…


Boris Johnson delayed the planned lifting of England's remaining restrictions for up to four weeks, meaning lockdown measures could stay in place until July 19.

Theatre owner warns delay to lockdown easing will do ‘significant damage’

The home services company wants to take on six new people but only if they can show proof of at least one Covid-19 vaccination. 

'No jab, no job!' Pimlico Plumbers only hiring vaccinated new staff

Boss of Southend Airport boss Glyn Jones fears budget airline passengers could be put off taking foreign holidays because of the test costs and quarantine.

Why Covid tests could make air travel 'only affordable for the rich'

Arthur Beale also supplies its ropes to the theatres and arctic explorers, not to mention escapologists. 

'I am sad to see it go': Arthur Beale closes its doors after 500 years

The company is now looking forward with hope to May 17, the date that international travel might restart in some form.

Lost quarter pushes Heathrow’s Covid-19 bill to £2.4bn

Nu Journal founder Jade Craig, 24, from Hither Green, has had to deal with depression for a number of years and sought ways of dealing with the issue. 

'My only outlet was to keep it in': Journal launched to aid mental health

The pandemic has hit businesses and particularly big chains hard giving high streets a chance to reinvent themselves.

Will the local business boost remain as 'stay local' message lifts?

Early morning shoppers stand in line outside the Primark store in Oxford Street, London, waiting for the store to reopen to customers as England takes another step back towards normality with the further easing of lockdown restrictions. Picture date: Monday April 12, 2021.


Long queues formed outside some of the West End's biggest department stores as shops, hairdressers, pub beer gardens and pavement cafes reopened for business.

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