Student nurse jailed for stealing over £250k from two dead strangers’ estates refuses to compensate

A ‘ruthless’ student nurse jailed for stealing more than £250,000 from the estates of two dead strangers has refused to compensate their relatives by selling her house nine years later. Georgia Forteath, 41, and her husband Harvil Connally, 49, duped the probate authorities in 2009 and 2010.  Forteath was planning to fund a property empire … Read more

British Government to compensate people who suffer extreme Covid-19 vaccine side effects

British Government to compensate people who suffer extreme Covid-19 vaccine side effects with payments of up to £120,000 under existing scheme for common jabs People ‘severely disabled’ by the Covid-19 vaccine will get a £120k payment  The government added the jab to the 1979 Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme  People suffering at least 60 per cent … Read more

GCS-easy? Exam grade boundaries should be lowered to compensate for the pandemic, Ofqual says

GCSE and A-Level grade boundaries should be LOWERED next year to compensate for pandemic, Ofqual says Ofqual is urging Government to ensure that exams are ‘less daunting’ in 2021  Chief regulator Dame Glenys Stacey has written letter to Education Secretary  Argues that pandemic is impacting learning so exams should be more lenient By Ross Ibbetson … Read more

Naps and weekend lie-ins are typically not enough to compensate for insufficient sleep

Go to bed! Napping and weekend lie-ins are typically not enough to compensate for getting less than six hours sleep a night during the week, study shows Researchers from France studied the sleep patterns of more than 12,000 adults They found that around a third suffered from insufficient sleep during the week Yet only a … Read more

Ryanair ordered to pay passenger £420 after failing to compensate her over four-hour flight delay

Ryanair ordered to pay passenger £420 after failing to compensate her over a flight delayed by more than four hours, with a court describing the airline’s actions as ‘unacceptable’ The no-frills airline was sued over a July 2019 flight from Palma to Barcelona The unnamed passenger turned up for the flight but did not board it … Read more