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Freshers’ week should be moved online to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks when university students go back next month, an independent group of scientists say. The experts have earmarked campuses as potential super-spreading zones, because young people are more likely to carry the virus without knowing and mingle with strangers. They say freshers’ week – normally held … Read more
Britain should dramatically restrict foreign holidays and travel in an attempt to totally eliminate coronavirus rather than just restricting it, the Independent SAGE committee has argued. The panel, which shadows the UK’s official scientific advisory group, said a substantial reduction in the number of people entering the country would allow officials to isolate any remaining … Read more
Pretty Little Thing has apologised after it was called out for selling t-shirts that look strikingly similar to ones created by an independent British label. The fast fashion retailer sold three different designs that looked like ones created by smaller brand Do Not Subverge (DNS), which launched in February. DNS co-founder Sean Hagan, 23, publicly critcised … Read more
Just over 30 years after their first ‘excellent adventure, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return as the title characters in Bill & Ted Face the Music, which Reeves recently called a ‘scrappy independent movie.’ Fans have been clamoring for this sequel for nearly three decades, following 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the 1991 … Read more
Boris Johnson finally says an independent inquiry WILL be held into the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis – but not yet Boris Johnson has confirmed that there will be an inquiry into coronavirus crisis PM said it was not yet time to consider the government’s response to the chaos Mr Johnson said an independent … Read more
Furious MPs today told Huawei bosses that their claims of the Chinese firm being ‘independent’ of Beijing’s influence are ‘not credible’. Senior figures from the tech giant were grilled by the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee this morning as they insisted Huawei should be ‘judged on how we behave, not how China behaves’. The … Read more
Under fire fashion retailer Boohoo has launched an independent review of its supply chain after a scandal about working conditions at factories. The investigation will be led by lawyer Alison Levitt QC and comes after the company’s shares plummeted £1billion amid the claims of poor pay and practices. Boohoo said it was going to invest … Read more
Top scientists have accused the British Government of ‘giving up’ on trying to stamp out the coronavirus and said the country must keep going with lockdown. The Independent SAGE group, led by former chief scientific adviser for England, Sir David King, published its seventh report today calling for a ‘Zero Covid UK’. It said the … Read more
Just one day after both the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards were postponed by two months, the Independent Spirit Awards have followed suit. The Independent Spirit Awards have taken place on the Saturday before Oscar Sunday for years, a tradition that will continue in 2021, with the ceremony taking place Saturday, April 24, 2021, … Read more
George Floyd WAS murdered by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin after knee on his neck ’caused asphyxia that led to lack of blood flow to brain’, says independent autopsy ordered by family By Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com Published: 20:17 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 20:23 BST, 1 June 2020 A private autopsy ordered by the … Read more