Churchill race row… at Churchill College: Critics slam ‘idiotic’ plan to debate wartime leader’s views on empire and race at Cambridge Churchill College Cambridge conducting ‘reassessment’ of Winston Churchill Academic debate will feature speakers including critics of the British Empire Leader’s monument was defaced with the words ‘was a racist’ last June By Andrew Levy … Read more
Fresh woe for students as university staff threaten strike action if they are asked to resume ‘unsafe’ in-person teaching this academic year University and College Union warned of action if in-person teaching resumes Members already balloted at Northumbria and Birmingham City universities Under current lockdown rules students are not permitted to return to campuses By … Read more
The Liverpool building firm hired to lead Unite’s £50million Birmingham development is now being probed as part of a police investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in Liverpool. Unite hired the Flanagan Group to head the construction of its multi-million pound Birmingham complex with work beginning in 2015. In 2019, the building firm’s boss Paul Flanagan was arrested … Read more
O2 expands its 5G coverage to 150 UK towns and cities – inching ahead of EE to become the nation’s biggest provider of ultra-fast mobile internet Both O2 and EE launched their 5G networks in the UK back in 2019 O2’s 5G network is now available in 150 towns and cities across the UK EE … Read more
Terrifying bodycam footage shows the moment a cash security guard is attacked with an 18-inch machete outside a Co-Op. Footage shows the cash security guard approaching his van as he is attacked in Huntingdon, Staffordshire, in March last year. Adrian Treleven, 26, and Remelle Stewart, 18, targeted Loomis and G4S workers transporting cash – but … Read more
Covid vaccinations will be available in some high street pharmacies from today. The injections are being rolled out at 200 locations over the next fortnight, both at the major chains and independent chemists. Boots in Halifax and Superdrug in Guildford will be among the first six sites to administer the injections. Yesterday, Asda announced it … Read more
Burglaries fall for the first time in three years because lockdown has made it harder to find empty homes to target, figures show Would-be burglars are finding it harder to break into homes as everyone is in Insurance claims for house burglaries fell for the first time in three years in 2020 Highest rate across … Read more
The police crackdown on Britons breaking lockdown rules has intensified with fines issued to a man travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go and a woman who drove 100 miles across three counties to get a McDonald’s burger. Another man was fined after travelling more than 110 miles from York to Leicester via Birmingham to … Read more
Professor Jon Deeks, a biostatistician from the University of Birmingham, accused the Government of making lateral flow tests seem ‘better than they are’ Boris Johnson‘s extortionate Operation Moonshot mass-swabbing scheme could accelerate Covid’s spread because the tests are so inaccurate, a top expert has warned. Professor Jon Deeks, a testing expert at the University of Birmingham, … Read more
The elderly and vulnerable have queued for more than two hours in the cold for a coronavirus jab at a Birmingham GP hub, according to the mother of an extremely vulnerable teenager. Nicola Leadbetter was greeted by a substantial queue outside a surgery in Yardley when she arrived for her teenage daughter Victoria’s 10.10am vaccination … Read more