David Lloyd warns on future as lockdown measures bite

David Lloyd is latest gym chain to warn over its future as lockdown measures bite By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 3 January 2021 David Lloyd is the latest gym chain to warn over its future as the lockdown measures bite.  In its accounts, … Read more

Traffic-easing measures are introduced at UK port to stop Brexit jams

Traffic-easing measures are introduced at UK’s second biggest ‘roll-on roll-off’ port to stop Brexit jams A temporary contraflow will begin on Monday on the A55 approaching Holyhead The port carries 1,200 lorries and trailers a day across the Irish Sea Traders will need to fill in online forms to ensure their goods are ready for checks … Read more

Hospitals set up makeshift Covid beds in children’s wards under ‘surge capacity’ measures

Health chiefs have warned that hospitals are bracing themselves by setting up makeshift Covid intensive care beds in children’s wards under ‘surge capacity measures’. Yesterday it was confirmed cases had increased by a third since last Saturday as 34,693 people tested positive in England and Wales alone amid a new highly-infectious strain of coronavirus.  The … Read more

Greater Manchester police is placed in special measures after failing to report 80,000 crimes

Greater Manchester Police is to be placed in ‘special measures’ today following a damning inspection report revealed that its officers failed to record 80,000 crimes in 2020. Inspectors expressed said they had ‘serious cause for concern’ about the way England’s second biggest police force was being run after it was revealed they had not recorded a fifth … Read more

Smart ring that constantly measures your temperature could provide an early warning of Covid-19

A smart ring that constantly measures your temperature could help determine whether you are developing Covid-19 – even if your symptoms are very subtle.  Experts from the University of California and MIT Lincoln Lab studied data on 50 people who owned a sensor rings and had had Covid-19 before the study. This was the first … Read more

80% Londoners think crime will rocket when lockdown measures eased

EXCLUSIVE: Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased as Tories condemn Sadiq Khan over plans to cut capital’s policing budget by £110m City Hall opinion poll found 80% of Londoners fear crime will rise after lockdown  And 61% expect crime to soar back to 2019’s record levels or … Read more

Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased

Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased as Tories condemn Sadiq Khan over plans to cut capital’s policing budget by £110m Conservative MPs condemned Mayor’s plan to cut the capital’s police budget  City Hall opinion poll found 80% of Londoners fear crime will rise after lockdown  And 61% … Read more

FDA authorizes test that measures the exact number of coronavirus antibody somebody has

FDA gives emergency approval a new test that can measure a patient’s levels of antibodies thought to ‘neutralize’ coronavirus in the hopes of discovering how much is enough to prevent reinfection The FDA has authorized one of the first tests that measure the level of coronavirus neutralizing antibodies produced by the immune system  Unlike binding … Read more

Anti-mask Britons are fined just £14,100 on public transport in four months of coronavirus measures 

Police have fined just 97 Britons a total of £14,100 for refusing to wear a face covering on public transport since July, figures obtained by MailOnline show. No one was fined above the minimum of £200 from September 24 to the end of October, an FOI request to the National Police Chiefs’ Council found. The … Read more

Facebook staff want to keep news censorship measures – even if it makes the platform more boring 

Facebook staff want to keep in place news censorship measures that were brought in to stop the spread of ‘misinformation’ following the US election – even if it makes the social network less engaging, the New York Times reports. In the immediate aftermath of the contested US election, Facebook implemented a change to its news … Read more