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UK pub company Fuller, Smith & Turner said staff levels were 20% lower since the start of the new financial year as it swung to an interim loss due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pub group Mitchells & Butlers said it had made 1,300 people redundant since the end of September as sales slumped under new Covid-19 restrictions in England.
European shares were flat in early trade on Thursday as investors digested an extension to German Covid-19 restrictions and a rise in US weekly jobless claims.