US vaccinates 7% of population after additional 1.1m shots are handed out

The White House is now saying that not every American will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in spring just one day after President Biden pledged that anyone who wanted a shot could get it by then. White House press secretary Jen Psaki was on Tuesday asked about Biden’s comments 24 hours earlier about … Read more

Great-grandmother, 62, who handed out face masks at hospital front door dies of Covid-19

Receptionist, 62, who gave out face masks at hospital front door dies just one week after catching Covid – as colleagues pay tribute to the great-grandmother for going ‘above and beyond’ Val Stimson, 62, worked as a receptionist at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital  Colleagues have described her as ‘a real character who will never … Read more

Covid UK: Police RESCIND £60 penalty handed to couple visiting wife’s dementia-suffering mother

A couple who visited a care home in South Wales to see their 94-year-old mother through her window have had their £60 fine withdrawn amid an intensifying police crackdown on lockdown rule-breakers. Carol Richards, 68, and husband David, 66, of Bridgend travelled 10 miles to visit dementia sufferer Decima Minhinnick at Picton Court Care Home. They were reprimanded … Read more

Dormant pensions and investments to be handed to charity

Orphan pensions and investments worth £800m could be handed to charity under plan to widen ‘dormant assets’ scheme Some £745m has been raised from inactive bank and building society accounts Insurance and pension policies, shares and other investments to be covered too Move requires legislation so it is unclear when money will start being released  … Read more

Nature: Goats often prefer to work for life’s treats rather than being handed them on a plate 

Goats often enjoy working for life’s little treats — rather than simply having them handed to them on a plate — a study has concluded. Swiss and German experts offered goats the choice of two treats — one freely accessible, the other behind a sliding door the animals had to nudge open. They found that … Read more

Three men are arrested as £18,000 of fines are handed out for illegal raves in Essex alone

Three people have been arrested after a 500-year-old church in Essex was trashed during an unlicenced New Yar’s Eve rave. Members of the conservation group that supports All Saints Church in East Horndon – a Grade II listed building – said they are “devastated” by the damage caused and estimate repairs could cost more than … Read more

England defender Kieran Trippier is handed a worldwide TEN-WEEK BAN and fined £70,000

BREAKING NEWS: England defender Kieran Trippier is handed a worldwide TEN-WEEK BAN and fined £70,000 for breaking FA betting rules around his transfer from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid – but he IS free to play at Euro 2020 Kieran Trippier was charged in May over bets placed around his move to Spain  He completed a … Read more

Prisoners are handed £41m in compensation in just three years

Prisoners are handed £41m in compensation in just three years for issues including lost property as well as in-custody injury or death EXCLUSIVE: Prisoners have been paid £40.8million in taxpayer funds since 2017 Some £11million was spent compensating the UK’s criminals in the year 2019/20 It comes after a record high year for prison violence … Read more

Test and Trace director joins private testing firm recently handed a £113million government contract

Dr Emma Stanton has been appointed as a vice president at Oxford Nanopore after leaving director role with NHS Test and Trace A director of the Government’s Test and Trace programme has quit her job and joined a private testing firm recently handed a £113million government contract. Emma Stanton was Director for Supplies and Innovation as … Read more

Why has the UK handed the world’s new most powerful weapon to China?

They call it ultracold quantum technology, and it will change the world. It’s a mind-boggling new field of science that is at once hugely exciting and – as we shall see – utterly alarming. It will change everything we know about computing and ultimately render all devices currently in use obsolete. As well as myriad … Read more