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The weekly cost of staying at a care home is £848 on average but varies dramatically across the country, new research reveals. At the extremes, prices range from £1,488 a week in Islington in London to £621 in Blaenau Gwent in Wales, according to figures from insurer Legal & General. The local cost breakdown comes … Read more
Around 65,000 people in England are catching Covid-19 each day but the outbreak is no longer shrinking, according to analysts tracking the second wave. London-based Lane Clark and Peacock (LCP) — a consultancy firm that uses official data to estimate daily infections across the country — predicted that cases plunged to 62,552 on January 14. … Read more
To make way for farmland and mining, forests covering an area nearly twice that of the UK have been destroyed since 2004, a report from WWF has claimed. The global conservation charity’s ‘Deforestation Fronts’ report examined 24 hotspots for the destruction of forests across 29 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 2004–2017, they … Read more
Mystery ‘triangle shape’ is spotted in Area 51 hangar by pilot who took 1,000 photos during Christmas Day flypast of secretive military base in Nevada Gabe Zeifman, a private pilot and amateur photographer, spent Christmas Day flying his Cessna 150 plane over the Nevada Test and Training Range The hangar is just south of the main … Read more
The ‘Last Ice Area’ is a narrow band of ice that covers about a million square miles across the Northern coasts of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which has long withstood the effects of climate change – until now. A team from the University of Toronto found that the ice arches holding the frozen … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks are spiralling fastest in former Tier One areas and the North of England, official data has revealed. Of the ten councils registering the biggest surges in Covid infections in the most recent fortnight, eight were in the North of England — including three in Cumbria and three in Liverpool. The remaining two were … Read more
Anyone who has travelled to Manchester from any Tier 4 area should isolate for ten days even if they don’t have Covid symptoms, health officials warn Greater Manchester’s 10 Directors of Public Health issued guidance on Monday Isolation period should start from December 19 and visitors must remain indoors No visitors should be then allowed … Read more
Armed robbers’ strike Surrey pub – as police swoop on area to close off road Police were called to a ‘firearms incident’ on Guildford Road, Surrey this morning Surrey Police said there were reports of an armed robbery at Lion Brewery pub Residents were not allowed in or out of their homes as police responded … Read more
All but three places will be plunged into Tier Three or Two (shown in red and orange) when England’s national shutdown ends on Wednesday Number 10 today published a breakdown of England’s lockdown tiers in a desperate attempt to justify the brutal curbs to the public as Boris Johnson announced all but three places of … Read more
England’s woodland could DOUBLE to cover 20 per cent of the country without intruding on important habitats or farmland, map shows The map was drawn up by Friends of the Earth and cartographers at Terra Sulis Woodland coverage could expand without impacting protected nature sites Most of the areas highlighted for tree planting are on low-grade … Read more