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There’s room at the inn! Couple’s first baby is born in an ambulance in the car park of a local Premier Inn in freezing conditions after they were turned away from hospital Harriet Hanson and Adam Smith delivered their son in car park of Premier Inn Harriet, 25, attended hospital in Grimsby but was told … Read more
Next stop Yorkshire: Local construction firm picked to build Siemens new train factory By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:12 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 23:12 GMT, 9 February 2021 Siemens has picked a Yorkshire construction company to build its new train manufacturing plant in East Riding. GMI Construction Group beat off … Read more
Charm offensive from ‘Your boy in Hanoi’: US ambassador to Vietnam releases rap song to stunned local audience ahead of Lunar New Year Daniel Kritenbrink has set Vietnamese internet alight with his endearing rap The video, released on Tuesday, shows the diplomat walking through the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city rhyming a … Read more
Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas … Read more
You CAN vote on May 6… but you must wear a mask and bring you own PENCIL! Local elections in England and Wales are given green light with strict Covid safety measures in place Local council, mayoral and police and crime commissioner votes set to go ahead Government officials had been mulling over plans to … Read more
There I was, sitting in a sun-dappled restaurant, eating the local delicacy of slow-cooked pork and clams and drinking a glass of cold Portuguese white wine, when a beautiful man walked in and changed my life. He was wearing shorts that showed off his long, utterly divine, suntanned legs. He’d obviously just come back from … Read more
All but three local authorities in England saw Covid infections fall last week and cases in care homes dropped by a third, official figures showed today. All key metrics now indicate the darkest days of the winter crisis are behind us, with the number of Covid hospital patients in general beds dropping to its lowest level … Read more
The BBC has been fined £28,000 for contempt of court after footage of an online High Court hearing was included in a broadcast. Six seconds of footage from a hearing in November last year were shown during two BBC South East Today news bulletins before the corporation was alerted to it by the court. The … Read more
Infection rates increased in only four English local authorities last week as lockdown restrictions continued to slow coronavirus transmission. It means just 1 per cent of the country recorded a week-on-week increase of cases in the seven days to January 28, according to Public Health England figures. The areas were Melton in Suffolk, East Lindsey in Lincolnshire, … Read more
Industry veteran: Tony Foot started his bank career in 1964 When Tony Foot started his bank career in 1964, there were a handful of branches in every town and the manager knew all their customers by name. Here, the 74-year-old retired bank manager explains why we all lose out when banks close their doors… During … Read more