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Drivers who risk their lives delivering £5.99 bikinis are told ‘your jobs are going’

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They are heroes of the pandemic, key workers who have provided an emergency service in the days of lockdown. Delivery drivers who are risking their health, the health of their loved ones and even their lives, to bring goods to our doors.

Yet around 70 staff involved in ­delivering parcels for the clothing company ASOS have been told they face redundancy at the end of this month.

The jobs of around 50 drivers and 20 admin staff will now end on April 30 – right in the eye of the  coronavirus storm. “We’re being chucked on the scrap heap, facing the abyss, mid-pandemic,” says one delivery driver. “Our jobs were supposed to be safe.” Another driver who was heading out on a delivery told me he was devastated. “You feel like things can’t get

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