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Estate agent Foxtons blames Brexit for lower house sales last year as the tenant fees ban eats into income sending profits down a third Foxtons’ revenues from house sales fell 10% to £32m; lettings down 2% to £65m Adjusted core profit for 2019 fell 32 per cent to £2.5million ‘Early signs’ of improvement so far, … Read more
A Premier League team has banned players from shaking hands as Coronavirus threatens to disrupt British football for months and could see fans banned from stadiums if it becomes a pandemic. Millions of supporters travel the length of the UK to follow their team but some are expected to masks at matches this weekend or … Read more
Newcastle BAN players from daily ritual of shaking hands with each other before training amid coronavirus fears Newcastle have banned their players from shaking hands amid coronavirus fears Players and staff shake hands at the training ground every morning in a tradition But on the advice of a doctor, Steve Bruce said that ritual had … Read more
China should ban the eating of dogs and cats completely to ‘restore its international image’, a scholar has urged. The news came after a Chinese city drafted a law to forbid the consumption of the pets to improve food safety in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Guo Changgang, an academic from Shanghai, called for … Read more
Russia use delaying tactics in a bid to compete at 2020 Olympics despite four-year ban for running state-sponsored doping programmes The World Anti-Doping Agency last year imposed a four-year ban on the country The Russian Anti-Doping Agency want more time to build a case for an appeal A delay could mean they would be able … Read more
Germany’s top court scraps ban on assisted suicide, sparking dismay from church groups German lawmakers rule people have ‘the right to self-determined death’ The decision was made during a Federal Court session in Karlsruhe Church leaders expressed their dismay at the landmark ruling which is ‘guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence’ By Stephen Delahunty … Read more
Politician Pauline Hanson has slammed Chinese students for exploiting a legal loophole to sneak back into Australia amid the coronavirus outbreak. She called for universities to be liable if other students catch the disease, saying officials only care about ‘money from foreign students’. A travel ban is in place to keep Australians safe from the deadly … Read more
Seven countries have imposed bans on people entering from Iran after the country announced that eight people had died from the new Covid-19 coronavirus and 43 have been infected. Iraq has barred Iranians from entering the country altogether, Pakistan has suspended almost all traffic across the border with Iran and Turkey has temporarily closed its … Read more
New threat to ash trees as EU ‘idiots’ block import ban meaning those infected with fungal disease can be replanted in uncontaminated fields Owen Paterson condemned rule forcing ministers to halt import ban of ash trees Scientists are trying to breed a disease-resistant form amid fears over loss Before the 2012 ban, Britain imported ash … Read more
A ban on the sale of wet wood and coal to burn in domestic fireplaces has been criticised amid claims it will push people in rural areas into poverty – and be impossible to enforce. The rationale behind the Government’s decision, which will come into force in 2021, is to reduce the most dangerous type … Read more