In an email seen by The Telegraph, Maintenance Management Ltd (MML), which handles Morrisons facilities, told contractors that the retailer is facing a tough end of year in respect of their budgetary position.

The window-cleaning ban, which was launched at the start of December, will run until February 2, which marks the end of Morrisons financial year.

Last month, Morrisons reported a disappointing 2.4pc drop in like-for-like sales for its third quarter, but pledged that full-year profits were still in line with expectations.

A spokesman for Morrisons said the budgetary position referred to in the email was the store maintenance budget, not the companys wider financial position.

Morrisons said: Morrisons has decided to reduce window cleaning at stores because it is less important to customers at the darkest time of the year, because the water that runs off windows can be a slippage hazard in the winter, and so we can spend money on maintenance activity that our customers do care about at this time of year.

We will be restoring the normal service in the spring and the reduction does not affect windows easily seen by customers."

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Window cleaning at Morrisons stores suspended to save money

8:00am Tuesday 10th December 2013 in News By Chris Holland, Business Reporter

Window cleaning at Morrisons stores has been suspended for two months due to financial constraints as tough trading conditions prevail and budget challengers grab an ever-bigger share of the grocery market.

The Bradford retailer, which reported a 2.4 per cent fall in like-for-like sales for its third quarter, said it had decided to reduce window cleaning because it was less important during the dark winter months.

Morrisons brake on spending with contractor Maintenance Manage-ment Ltd comes as its market share is growing by less than the three per cent market average, along with Asda and Tesco, according to recent figures from retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel. In contrast budget supermarket Aldis year-on-year growth rate was 31.7 per cent in the three months to the end of October and the latest in an unbroken series of double-digit growth figures dating back to early 2011.

The cleaning ban will run until February 2, the end of Morrisons financial year.

A Morrisons spokesman said: Morrisons has decided to reduce window cleaning at stores because it is less important to customers at the darkest time of the year; because the water that runs off windows can be a slippage hazard in the winter; and so we can spend money on maintenance activity that our customers do care about at this time of year.

We will be restoring the normal service in the spring and the reduction does not affect windows easily seen by customers.

Meanwhile, Morrisons, along with other major supermarkets, have warned that a vote for Scottish independence in next years referendum could force up food prices there. Chief executive Dalton Philips said prices could be raised if new regulations by the Scottish Government pushed up business costs.

He said: If the regulatory environment was to increase the burden of the cost structure on business, that would potentially have to be passed through to consumer pricing, because why should the English and Welsh consumer subsidise this increased cost of doing business in Scotland?

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A man has died after falling from the sixth floor of a harbourside apartment at Kirribilli in what police are calling an awful incident

Neighbours heard a woman's screams seconds after her husband fell to his death from the sixth-floor window of a harbourside unit at Kirribilli on Monday.

The woman ran to a lodge across the road, crying as she begged someone to help revive her husband.

She just said he fell off the window. She just like shock, really scary, like shaking

She told staff at Glenferrie Lodge that her husband was cleaning a window in their Carrabella Street unit when he fell and landed in the car park below about 8am.

Anne Yang: she tried to comfort the man's wife. Photo: Ben Rushton

Onlookers tried desperately to revive the 47-year-old man but he went into cardiac arrest at the scene and died.

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A man has died after falling from the sixth floor of a harbourside apartment at Kirribilli in what police are calling an awful incident

Neighbours heard a woman's screams seconds after her husband fell to his death from the sixth-floor window of a harbourside unit at Kirribilli on Monday.

The woman ran to a lodge across the road, crying as she begged someone to help revive her husband.

She just said he fell off the window. She just like shock, really scary, like shaking

She told staff at Glenferrie Lodge that her husband was cleaning a window in their Carrabella Street unit when he fell and landed in the car park below about 8am.

Anne Yang: she tried to comfort the man's wife. Photo: Ben Rushton

Onlookers tried desperately to revive the 47-year-old man but he went into cardiac arrest at the scene and died.

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Police said they believed the man had fallen in what was described as an awful incident and, at this stage, did not believe self harm was involved.

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