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It’s A Sin star Olly Alexander struggled to hold back tears as he discussed the impact the show has had during a Zoom reunion with the cast. Appearing on Friday’s BBC Breakfast, the 30-year-old singer was left overwhelmed as he learned that the show had inspired a record number of people to get tested for … Read more
Britain’s endangered birds of prey are making a comeback: Soaring numbers of hen harriers are found on UK grouse moors Stunning videos show hen harriers swooping on Swindon Estate in Yorkshire There are believed to be only 600 breeding pairs in England and Scotland Last year sixty hen harrier chicks fledged from 19 nests across … Read more
Airports in Britain suffered an 76 per cent fall in traffic last year as international air travel plunged by 60 per cent – with the coronavirus pandemic bringing it back down to 2003 levels. Carriers in Britain are estimated to have lost nearly £20billion last year as the Civil Aviation Authority revealed just 59.5million passengers … Read more
Claudia Karvan says it was ‘instant gratification’ when her Stan Original series Bump delivered record numbers for the streaming platform and was renewed within days of its launch By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:55 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 00:55 GMT, 28 January 2021 Just days after its premiere on January … Read more
The number of monarch butterflies wintering on the California coast has plummeted to a record low, according to entomologists. Fewer than 2,000 monarchs were recorded in November and December, compared to 200,000 barely three years ago. In the 1980s, the monarch butterflies migrating south to groves from Marin County to San Diego was estimated at … Read more
Shop queue clampdown: Supermarkets are told to bring back limit on number of customers amid new fears over lockdown rule-breaking Ministers ordered local authorities to limit number of people allowed into shops Non-essential stores or those not following Covid secure guidelines may be shut It comes amid concerns supermarkets may become virus hotspots and that … Read more
Pension savers and investors are being bombarded with fraudulent online ads on ‘industrial scale’, say financial regulators who called for more money and resources to step up public warning campaigns. Criminals no longer need to produce glossy brochures or set up fake offices as online adverts can be created ‘very easily’, an official told MPs … Read more
‘Divorce Day’ looms for warring couples tomorrow but experts predict lower numbers of inquiries than last year because more decided to split up while in lockdown Co-op Legal Services has said it recorded a 250% rise in inquiries through 2020 First working Monday in January has long held its grim nickname as ‘Divorce Day’ This … Read more
Hospitals are seeing record numbers of coronavirus patients as fears over NHS capacity saw Boris Johnson refuse to rule out a third lockdown. ‘We’re hoping very much that we will be able to avoid anything like’ a third lockdown in the new year, the Prime Minister said, but added: ‘the reality is that the rates … Read more
Advertising agency WPP has admitted to understating its losses by hundreds of millions of pounds after an embarrassing accounting debacle. In a highly unusual error, it said its statutory losses were mis-stated by £301million for the first six months of this year. It means the record half-year loss of £2.6billion that the world’s largest advertising … Read more