Arcadia will halt the £2m monthly contributions which were agreed with The Pensions Regulator last summer to reduce a shortfall in the pension scheme.

There are some 1,585 fewer residential mortgages now available than there were just three weeks ago, according to financial experts Moneyfacts.

The advertising group yesterday warned that the coronavirus crisis was hitting revenues as clients delayed spending decisions and put back marketing campaigns.

The company announced it would raise £1bn from a public share sale, and by borrowing an additional £3.8bn on the bond markets. The money will be used for day-to-day spending.

AIM-listed business Science Group has become the latest firm to design a ventilator from scratch. It has signed an agreement to provide 10,000 of them if regulators approve.

Despite steady gains yesterday, the FTSE100 fell 24.8 per cent, or 1870.48 points, in the first three months of the year to end the first quarter at 5671.96. It was the biggest ever quarterly points fall.

While the relaunched Notice Plus account from Epsom Derby sponsor Investec has more moving parts than a track full of racehorses, it offers an easy-access element with a top-rate deal.

It follows through on a threat from Sir Stelios, 53, who is Easyjet's biggest shareholder, to sack a director every seven weeks if the firm does not move to cancel its order of 107 aircraft from Airbus.

FTI Consulting said that Ocado had seen a 'stark deterioration in scores,' while 'Morrisons, Tesco and Asda have all improved'. Waitrose ranked the strongest in recent weeks.

The fashion retailer has appointed agents to sell its head office and warehouse in West Yorkshire. The sale and leaseback deals are part of a strategy announced at its annual results last week.

Some HSBC directors are said to be furious at the Bank of England for forcing it to cancel its dividend and suggested the bank should move its headquarters from London to Hong Kong.

Standard Life Aberdeen, MoneySupermarket and warehouse group Segro yesterday also kept their dividends intact. But they are vastly outnumbered by those cancelling the largesse.

Alarmist forecasts of more than 20m job losses in the US, and a 10 per cent plus loss of output in Britain and in America in the second quarter, look likely to be a reality.

The DVLA has released the list details of the personalised plate options it has removed from the market for being insulting, with the likes of M20 RON, A20 RSE and BS20 TRD all being pulled from sale.

Demand for wills is surging, understandably in the midst of a grave health crisis. Lawyers explain how to get a will properly signed while not endangering yourself or others.

22-year-old Tara Hinchy and 31-year-old Greg Linning were among those who told This is Money they had changed their shopping habits in response to the coronavirus.

Laura Tenison, the founder of upmarket children's clothing retailer JoJo Maman Bébé, says: 'We are an ethical business.' And she has been working on her own production line during the Covid-19 crisis.

Owners of cars will see their car tax costs rise in-line with the RPI index, usually adding £5 to bills. However, new vehicle buyers will be hit harder, as first-year VED rates are determined by a new test.

Glaxo said it would invest more than £200m in the US company and that they would initially focus on speeding up development of Vir's antibody drugs, which could be used to treat Covid-19.

Some 4.7million drivers are stuck with insurance policies that automatically renewed, with many now asking legal steps to be taken to stop the practice, according to Go Compare Car Insurance.

The typical home value was £240,384 in March, according to the Halifax index - meaning prices were at a standstill last month. It remains to been if they hold-up during the coronavirus outbreak.

Brendan O'Shea started Just Clear with just his wife and a van. Now his franchise is nationwide, and has been hired to decontaminate thousands of buildings of Covid-19

A damning review by the Financial Ombudsman of an anti-fraud code which came into force last May has raised numerous concerns about the way banks are treating victims who have lost millions.

From whether you can apply for Universal Credit if you're self-employed to whether you should apply for benefits or sick pay, Citizens Advice answers six of the most common benefits questions.

My partner Chris and I live in a first-floor flat, so when our neighbour sent us a message out of the blue insisting we use her front garden to enjoy the sunshine on Sunday, I could have kissed her.

Andrew O'Connor and Phil Waters (pictured), chefs at the Full Moon Pub in Buckinghamshire, have turned their hands to churning out dozens of ready-to-cook meals for customers to take home.

The supermarket's latest preliminary results cover the year to 29 February and do not cover the spell of mass panic buying in the last few weeks.

Key workers who provide lifts to colleagues who have no other means of travelling to their jobs can car share with a 'minimum number of people at any one time' during the coronavirus lockdown.

Register offices are closed for now because of the virus outbreak, so parents should add a note about this to their child benefit claim and submit it anyway, says HMRC.

Bank of America alone has approved 177,000 loans worth $32.6 billion (£26.3 billion) in just over a week. The White House says that £56.5 billion of such loans have been sorted.

Tiziana's possible treatment may have a number of advantages over its competition - not least the inhaler method used to get the drug to the affected area.

The group also said it had donated vast quantities of alcohol to help make over 8million bottles of hand sanitiser for healthcare workers globally.

We tend to put ambitious targets on our hoped-for income in retirement and then underestimate how much we will need to set aside to achieve that. So how much should you save?

Buy-to-let mortgage rates may be at near rock bottom levels but investing in property is much tougher than it once was. If you a a landlord, or tempted to become one, read our guide.

Housing Minister Christopher Pincher will host a video conference call with the trade body for estate agents to discuss how people can safely begin buying, selling and moving home again.

Daniel Duckett - who is now campaigning for small firms to get payouts - was also told by Hiscox that criticism of the insurance industry by politicians was irrelevant.

Tim Foster is co-founder of The Yummy Pub company. He saw his business change overnight because of lockdown - but he has never been busier.

Britain's biggest car-maker is making a bid to kick-start the dormant car sales market and entice customers into buying new vehicles despite the coronavirus lockdown.

Nearly a third of people in the UK have had to dip into their savings while a fifth have taken on debt, with the younger generations the worst hit, a new survey has showed.

A spate of new companies offering at home orthodontic and so-called 'teledentistry' treatments have sprung up over the past 18 months or so. But how can you effectively fit braces at home?

In recent weeks there has been a series of disagreements between firms forced to close due to coronavirus and the insurers refusing to pay out their business interruption claims.

Nationwide has cut the rate on its Future Saver, Loyalty Saver and Isa customers, but jumping ship is proving tricky.

There is no doubt that the most hygienic way to pay for something is with a tap of a contactless card. But if you're spending more than £45 you either have to use a card machine, or hand over cash.

Last month cash withdrawals fell by 60 per cent compared with April 2019, according to ATM operator Link, whose chief exec says the pandemic is 'speeding up' the decline of cash.

The breaks will be available to workers who are waiting on furlough payments or self-employment support, or those who lose their jobs after March 1.

The income is derived from premium-rate phone lines that cost 51 pence per minute to ring - or more than three times the 16p  standard.

With the majority of drivers leaving their motors parked or making only infrequent and very short journeys to the shops, there's a good chance you'll encounter one or more of these six issues.

One company has come up with a plan that allows homeowners to give chartered surveyors a virtual tour of their home without breaching social distancing guidelines.

A number of challenger banks and building societies are making cuts to their bread and butter savings accounts - and it's time to check you won't be hit.

Britain has been busily taking on its own emergency loans to deal with coronavirus. What do we do to pay all this extra borrowing off?