LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's NatWest is cutting at least 500 jobs across its retail business and closing one of its remaining offices in London as banks press on with cost-cutting in the face of a wave of expected loan losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just Eat to create ‘thousands’ of UK jobs as revenues hit almost £1bn.

Marks & Spencer is cutting 7,000 jobs over the next three months across its stores and management.

Summary of latest labour market data

Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand. Amazon said it had already added 3,000 roles so far in 2020, and so by the end of the year it will have created a total of 10,000 new jobs.

Supermarket giant Morrisons has said it's hired more than 45,000 new staff as demand for groceries soared in the face of the pandemic.

UK employers have slashed 695,000 jobs since March when the coronavirus first sent Britain into national lockdown. Britain’s official unemployment rate also increased as expected by analysts to 4.1% between May July from 3.9% a month earlier, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published on Tuesday.