Fears for patients and heart victims as doctors are forced to axe urgent surgery amid Covid-19 surge

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

Ruth Langsford chats to Phillip Schofield for the first time since This Morning axe

Ruth Langsford chatted to Phillip Schofield for the first time since she and husband Eamonn Holmes were axed from their This Morning role. The TV presenter, 60, spoke to the This Morning mainstay, 58, from the Loose Women studios to cheerfully tell him and Rochelle Humes about what was to come up on the show. … Read more

Coronation Street bosses axe director after his social media posts on racism

Coronation Street bosses axe director after he ‘claimed that racism doesn’t exist in the media and branded stars speaking out against discrimination “victim-making frauds”‘ By Ryan Smith for MailOnline Published: 14:50 GMT, 23 December 2020 | Updated: 16:57 GMT, 23 December 2020 Coronation Street bosses have dropped freelance director Steve Finn after he made social … Read more

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford ‘have been told to keep quiet about This Morning axe’

Eamonn Holmes and his wife Ruth Langsford have reportedly been told to keep quiet about their axing from This Morning. According to sources, the presenters, aged 61 and 60, have been advised to not address losing their slot on the ITV programme to avoid missing out on more work opportunities.  The hosts – who are … Read more

Axe BBC licence fee for Sky-style subscriptions service, 40 per cent of viewers tell poll

The BBC licence fee should be replaced by a Sky-style subscription, a new poll has found. Forty per cent of those polled backed subscriptions, compared with 37 per cent who favour the present £157.50 annual charge. The survey, commissioned by the Defund The BBC pressure group, also found 15 per cent of viewers say they … Read more

Eamonn Holmes bids final farewell to This Morning viewers and thanks fans after axe

Eamonn Holmes has said he and wife Ruth Langsford are ‘going to get on with their lives’ after their final Friday hosting This Morning.  It was revealed last month that the couple, who fill in for Holly and Phillip on Fridays, had been cut from their weekly slot to be replaced with Alison Hammond and … Read more

Wales hints it could AXE Christmas ‘bubbles’ amid alarm at surge in Covid cases

Wales today hinted that it could yet axe Christmas ‘bubbles’ amid rising alarm at a surge in coronavirus cases.  Health minister Vaughan Gething refused to rule out a rethink saying the nation’s government could need to ‘make choices to keep people safe’. However, Downing Street insisted the planned easing will go ahead in England despite warnings … Read more

Axe falls on taxpayer subsidies to farmers: George Eustice to confirm that payments will be stopped

Government reveals plans to ‘revolutionise’ farming with payments to protect the environment, produce free-range goods and ‘restore the landscape’ replacing costly EU subsidies While currently farmers are paid subsidies for amount of land they own, new system will see incentives for implementing sustainable, eco-friendly measures This includes producing free-range products and improving farm animal welfare … Read more

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford ‘to be offered their OWN show by the BBC after This Morning axe’

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford are reportedly set to be offered their own show by the BBC following their axing from ITV’s This Morning. It was revealed earlier this month that the veteran presenters, both 60, would no longer be hosting the Friday installments of the daytime show, and will instead be replaced by Alison … Read more

Energy giant E.On will axe 700 support and management jobs over next two years

Energy giant E.On will axe 700 support and management jobs over next two years in restructuring move A total of 695 jobs will be affected, out of 3,500 that the firm currently employs  The new E.On Next platform is due to complete in 2022  Spokesman said the job cuts are ‘not a new announcement’ and … Read more