Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Government to use the third national lockdown in England to create a ’round-the-clock’ vaccination scheme in order to end ‘this nightmare’. In a televised response to Boris Johnson‘s statement, the Labour leader reiterated that his party supports the new measures being imposed and would back them in a Commons … Read more
Serena Williams‘s husband Alexis Ohanian is slamming retired tennis player Ion Tiriac as a racist and sexist after the 81-year-old suggested that she should retire due to her age and weight. ‘2021 and no holding back when a racist/sexist clown with a platform comes for my family,’ Ohanian tweeted Monday. Tiriac, who ranked as high … Read more
New agony for 400,000 elderly in care homes as family visits are axed yet again amid new Covid-19 lockdown Close contact with family members is once again an impossibility for those in care homes after new restrictions were announced on Monday Visits can still go ahead through screens, pods and windows, guidance advised Campaigners warn … Read more
Building firms linked to Britain’s unsafe housing crisis have made more than £15billion in profit since the Grenfell Tower disaster. The astonishing success of major property developers and construction companies has allowed them to pay shareholders dividends of £5billion. The biggest ten firms paid their chief executives an average total salary of £2million in the … Read more
British patrol boat boards Irish trawler and stops it from fishing contested Rockall waters in first post-Brexit fisheries clash The Northern Celt was boarded and its skipper told he can no longer fish Skipper said a Scottish patrol vessel told him he couldn’t fish around Rockall Outcrop lies 260 miles west of Scotland’s Western Isles … Read more
HG Wells fans have slammed a special-issue Royal Mint coin commemorating the science fiction novelist after his iconic tripod war machines were illustrated with an additional leg. Eagle-eyed readers questioned how the new £2 coin, which marks the 75th anniversary of the writers’ death and is inspired by The War of the Worlds and The … Read more
Urgent cancer surgery is being cancelled as hospitals do not have space for non-Covid patients. Soaring admissions mean bosses in London and Kent say they had no choice but to take the drastic step so they can deal with emergency virus cases. In London, where hospitals are close to being overwhelmed, surgical theatres and recovery … Read more
Tory MPs accused Matt Hancock of playing down the Government’s vaccination ambitions yesterday. The Health Secretary described the prospect of giving the jab to the most vulnerable by mid-February as a ‘best-case scenario’. Many of his parliamentary colleagues were not reassured by his comments to them over Zoom yesterday morning. One MP who referred to … Read more
The UK faces plunging into its first double-dip recession since 1975, with the latest lockdown expected to cost almost £400million per day. Output in the first quarter of this year will be £24.57billion lower than it would have been without the third national lockdown, a think-tank warned yesterday. The Centre of Economics and Business Research … Read more
Protesters looked on in horror today as the ‘Tree of the Year’ was chopped down to make way for 584 new homes on a housing estate in London. Crowds were unable to stop the 150-year-old ‘Happy Man tree’, which had been named after a since-demolished pub, from being felled, but warned that the councillors who … Read more