5G smartphones can interfere with CRITICAL aircraft instruments, authority warns

Air travellers with 5G phones are being urged to turn them off on planes because the technology can disrupt landing gear, according to the French civil aviation authority. The latest generation of smartphones and networks, currently being rolled out around the world, can interfere with critical aircraft instruments including altitude. This is due to signal … Read more

Jackie Weaver admits she ‘DOESN’T KNOW’ who had authority at chaotic Handforth Parish Council

Jackie Weaver has become a household name overnight after being at the cente of a spat at Handforth Parish Council’s planning meeting that saw her eject the chairman from a Zoom call after he rejected her authority Until today Handforth’s claim to fame was being home to one of Britain’s biggest M&S superstores and its … Read more

Mexico approves law restricting authority of DEA on country’s drug cartels

Mexico cuffs the DEA: Country passes law limiting power of ‘foreign agents’ – who will now be forced to submit their intelligence to Mexican officials in huge boost for drug cartels Mexico’s lower house of congress on Tuesday approved legislation that limits the powers of ‘foreign agents’ operating in the country The 329-98 vote comes … Read more

British Horseracing Authority apologises amid racism storm after filly ‘Jungle Bunny’ runs

British Horseracing Authority is forced to apologise amid racism storm after filly called ‘Jungle Bunny’ ran at Wolverhampton – but owner says horse is named after grandson’s favourite video game The horse ran on Saturday at Wolverhampton Racecourse at 50-1 odds It finished sixth but prompted a storm of criticism over its name Owner’s wife … Read more

Boris Johnson ‘lacks authority’ and Carrie Symonds ‘holds power’

Carrie Symonds has risen to hold ‘real power in No 10’ while her Prime Minister fiancé Boris Johnson has become ‘dishevelled and lacking in any signals of dignity or authority’. Analysis of pictures and videos of the couple have shown a switch of authority between the pair, according to body language and relationship experts. One … Read more

Carrie Symonds holds ‘real power in No 10’, as body language experts say Boris ‘lacks authority’

Carrie Symonds has risen to hold ‘real power in No 10’ while her Prime Minister fiancé Boris Johnson has become ‘dishevelled and lacking in any signals of dignity or authority’. Analysis of pictures and videos of the couple have shown a switch of authority between the pair, according to body language and relationship experts. One … Read more

Croydon goes BUST: Labour-run local authority blames Covid as it is on brink of bankruptcy

Croydon Council declared itself practically bankrupt yesterday and blamed its financial crisis on the havoc caused by coronavirus.  The Labour-run south London borough imposed emergency spending restrictions under a Section 114 notice – only the second authority in two decades to face such measures. As well as the coronavirus crisis, local officials also pinned blame on … Read more

Trapped Woodford investors snubbed by Financial Conduct Authority

Furious Neil Woodford investors have slammed the financial watchdog over its drawn-out probe into the savings scandal. Grilling top regulators at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) yesterday, savers asked why the watchdog’s investigation into the fund manager’s failed empire was taking so long. But in a snub to investors who were frozen out of the … Read more

Manchester authority tells care homes to accept Covid patients being discharged from hospital

A Manchester authority has reportedly told care homes to accept Covid-19 patients being discharged from hospitals to free up beds when a second wave hits. Trafford council in Greater Manchester, a coronavirus hotspot in England, says care homes will need to be prepared to take elderly people, regardless of if they are infected, because ‘hospitals … Read more