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Carbon tax plan gets binned by Boris Johnson amid fear it would spark a rise in food prices Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dropped plans to introduce a carbon tax The move would have seen prices for meat, cheese and gas rise sharply Whitehall departments had been asked to draw up a ‘price’ for carbon … Read more
Doses of the Pfizer vaccine were binned during an NHS immunisation session amid calls for ‘full transparency’ about jag wastage. The doses were wasted at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland, on Saturday, while NHS staff were being vaccinated. The hospital provides rehabilitation services, assessment beds for elderly mental health patients, and care … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus vaccination drive was hit by yet more chaos today after it was claimed doctors are having to throw away doses meant for patients who didn’t turn up and that elderly patients are having to queue outdoors in the freezing cold because the NHS’s IT systems keep crashing. The UK’s mass immunisation programme is … Read more
Furious pub landlords say ‘astronomical’ amounts of food are being binned because of the government’s substantial meal rule. Beleaguered hospitality industry bosses say customers are only ordering food including chips, scotch eggs and oysters because they ‘have to’, without any intention of eating it. They say restrictions in the Covid tier systems are ‘doing more … Read more
Project manager working on Grenfell Tower refurbishment ‘binned’ her notebooks relating to the revamp a YEAR after blaze that killed 72 people, public inquiry hears Claire Williams worked for the Grenfell’s Tenant Management Organisation She left her job at the company a year after the fire which killed 72 residents Public inquiry into blaze heard … Read more
Lost video tapes of Top of the Pops come to light 50 years after they were binned by the BBC including performances from Elvis Presley and Status Quo A man from Wales used a Sony CV-2000 to record performances between 1971 and 1976 Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, are selling the collection Auction will take … Read more
Lost video tapes of Top of the Pops come to light 50 years after they were binned by the BBC including performances from Elvis Presley and Status Quo A man from Wales used a Sony CV-2000 to record performances between 1971 and 1976 Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, are selling the collection Auction will take … Read more
A student was left ‘disgusted’ after her university halls threw away ‘everything she owns’ when she wasn’t allowed to return to her accomodation because of Covid-19. Hannah Mullins, from London, who studies graphic design at the University of Brighton, had made an appointment to collect her belongings after she was forced to leave the accommodation at … Read more