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Dozens of people have been spotted sleeping rough on one of London’s most exclusive streets amid worries of a spike in homelessness. More than twenty Eastern European men and women set up makeshift beds out of cardboard and dumped mattresses in front of luxury car showroom on Park Lane last night, metres from a string … Read more
Hatch of the day! Couple put rescued egg in the oven and out pops a duckling Will Hall, 26, and Alice Kendall, 22, discovered the orphan egg near their home The couple from Winchester, Hampshire, used their oven as an incubator It hatched after two hours and the couple are debating what to name the … Read more
Sports halls and hotel meeting rooms ‘could become makeshift courtrooms’ for family and commercial hearings in bid to get through backlog of 37,000 jury trials at traditional courts Lord Burnett told MPs that venues which are shut could be used for civil cases He hopes crown courts in England and Wales will reopen by end … Read more
The first sign of the Premier League’s return? Newcastle stars undergo coronavirus tests at makeshift drive-through testing stations at their training ground as they prepare to return to group work on Tuesday Newcastle United players underwent coronavirus testing on Sunday Stars were assessed at Darsley Park before return to training on Tuesday Premier League clubs … Read more
Selena Gomez unveils a DIY ‘makeshift studio’ as she sets herself up to record from home By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 00:29 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 00:32 BST, 3 May 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has seen a largescale transition to working from home. And that even singer and actress Selena Gomez is … Read more
The insides of two makeshift coronavirus mortuaries have been pictured for the first time – on the same day a third shut after just two weeks. A warehouse on the Hillington Industrial Estate in Glasgow is set to hold 1,700 bodies, while a marquee in Bristol will store 240. But a morgue built to house another … Read more
Firefighters begin grim task of transporting coronavirus dead from overwhelmed hospitals to a makeshift mortuary in industrial park that can hold up to 1,000 bodies Bodies being taken from hospitals in Greater Manchester to a special mortuary The new mortuary in Trafford can hold up to 1,000 bodies in an industrial park It opened on Monday and is … Read more
Workers at a Chinese city bordering Russia have spent six days converting a 13-storey building into a makeshift coronavirus hospital for patients without symptoms as Beijing faces a fresh flare-up in its far-flung north-east. Russia has become China’s largest source of imported cases, according to state media. Most of the patients are Chinese citizens doing … Read more
Having only left the house twice in three weeks, football pundit Gary Lineker decided it was time to transform his lounge into a makeshift TV studio on Wednesday amid the COVID-19 lockdown. Sharing a snap of his plus living room with camera and lighting equipment mounted in the forefront of the shot, Gary, 59, captioned the … Read more
Quick-thinking police officers turn their belts into a makeshift hoist to rescue a man hanging onto the side of a quarry above a 50ft drop A man became stranded in a disused cement quarry in Northfleet, Kent A team of police officers tied their belts together to hoist him up the cliff They then found … Read more