Why these big-name high street stores have NOT reopened this week THE coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating effect across huge areas of the UK economy, but few areas felt as hard an impact as the retail and hospitality sectors. Restaurants, pubs, bar, cafes and leisure venues were forced to shut their doors in March when the virus first struck the UK. Venues started to reopen their doors to customers again in July but were then hamstrung by local restrictions, a 10pm curfew, new service rules and a second national lockdown in England in November. Thousands of venues are still shut as a result of restrictions across the UK.
A now-vanished Newcastle cinema nearly 100 years ago - and the same location today
One of Newcastle s long-lost cinemas the Picture House sat at the top of Grey Street, showing films from 1914 until its closure in 1932
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Cambridge restaurants that won t be reopening in April after lockdown
It s been a tough time for restaurants and not all of them have survived
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Don Pasquale on Market Square has been boarded up (Image: Cambridge News)
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Rosie and Stuart Treasurer, from West Kirby, appeared on Grand Designs in 2016 to rebuild their house on Grange Hill. Image: Channel 4 screengrab
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A traditional property in a sought after area of Wirral was transformed into a bold new home featured on an episode of Grand Designs.
Here are the major chains that have made hospitality redundancies during the pandemic so far
Carluccio’s
Carluccio’s cut jobs early on in the first wave of the pandemic
The Italian restaurant group was one of the first well-known high street chains to enter administration during the pandemic.
In May, it was bought out of administration by the owner of Giraffe and Ed’s Easy Diner, resulting in the loss of more than 1,000 jobs
In total 40 Carluccio’s restaurants across the UK were set to close and 1,019 jobs were cut, administrators FRP Advisory said.
Around 800 employees were transferred to new owner Boparan Restaurant Group, which bought the remaining 30 sites in the UK. It also snapped up the Caluccio’s restaurant in Dublin in a separate deal.