Update: UK flight disruption expected to clear; Primark to start offering home delivery in Great Britain – business live

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Flight schedules expected to return to normal following chaos of last two days Here is our full story on Primark starting to offer home delivery in Britain “in the future” – it’s a bit of a moment. The report also notes that Independent retail analyst Nick Bubb stated: We flagged last Friday that there has been plenty of speculation about tough trading in the John Lewis department store business and we assumed that overall first-half sales would have been something like 3% down, with ‘big ticket’ products taking a beating, but on an ex-VAT basis the fall was 4% and the largest fall (-4.8%) was in fashion. And, despite good work on margin and cost control, that sort of top-line drop hit the bottom line at John Lewis, with the usual H1 operating loss up from £53m to £83m this year (we expected £80m).

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