Branching out: Garden centres turn to deliveries to survive

Branching out: Garden centres turn to deliveries to survive as they face losing millions of pounds worth of plants due to coronavirus crisis Garden centres are starting home delivery services to prevent stock waste  Companies delivering locally said they had experienced a boom in request Others were handing plants and flowers out for free to … Read more

It should be teeming – but like all of Britain’s locked down garden centres, it is a ghost town

The wallflowers are looking magnificent. The tulips and primulas are in full bloom. All around me are beds and tables full of magnificent plants in the best of health – thousands of them – and all waiting for a good home. Except there is no one here today, apart from Colin Campbell-Preston, a man who … Read more

Three immigration removal centres on coronavirus lockdown

Three detention centres across the UK are detaining people with coronavirus symptoms, it has been revealed today.  Brook House immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick Airport, Morton Hall in Lincolnshire and Harmondsworth in west London are all affected, according to the BBC. Detainees at the centres claim they have been left without soap and unable to protect … Read more

O2 arena Wembley Arena sports grounds conference centres could be used as field hospitals

Conference centres, music venues and sports grounds could be used as field hospitals in a desperate bid to treat more coronavirus patients. The Army could turn a number of large-capacity venues into overflow medical facilities up and down the UK after cases spiralled to 6,550 and 335 deaths.  After visiting the ExCeL Centre in London’s … Read more

Germany is now using drive-thru centres to swab patients for coronavirus

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of … Read more

Vigilante hacks into Indian criminal call centre’s CCTV to show fraudsters laughing

Vigilante hacks into Indian criminal call centre’s CCTV to show fraudsters laughing as they fleece their weeping British victims out of thousands through fake messages placed on their computers by viruses Online vigilante ‘Jim Browning’ gained access to a fraudulent call centre in India Footage shows scammers laughing while one of them speaks with a … Read more

My government created detention centres on Gauhati HC orders: Ex-CM Tarun Gogoi

Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Updated: December 28, 2019 7:13:11 am Government sources said illegal Bangladeshi migrants convicted by Indian courts are a separate category from persons “declared” as ‘illegal foreigners’ by the 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) of the state. (File) Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that he did … Read more