Former Thomas Cook CEO gets €8m bonus

Under-fire travel firm Thomas Cook said its former chief executive Harriet Green has been awarded a shares bonus worth around £5.7m (€8m) but will donate a third to charity after the deaths of two children in Corfu. 

Green has been handed 4.1m shares — the bottom end of the range to which she is entitled — after meeting financial targets during her two and a half years at the helm of the group.

She will give around £1.9m to charity after intense scrutiny of the company’s response to the deaths of Christi and Bobby Shepherd by carbon monoxide poisoning in 2006.