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Britain could dish out its Covid vaccines faster to bring cases down and ease lockdown rules sooner if it overcame speed bumps in the rollout, experts say at the country hurtles towards it 15million people target for Monday. The UK has vaccinated an average of 431,000 people per day over the past seven days, reaching … Read more
One in four homeowners is paying their lender’s highest mortgage rate – and some even think it helps them pay off their loan faster… Borrowers could save £4,080 per year by ditching their standard variable rate This is the ‘default’ rate when your initial term ends and it can be up to 6% Some thought … Read more
5 Gee-Gee! Horse delivers package of pictures quicker than broadband internet by more than three hours A horse delivering photos beat an internet transfer by more than three hours Photographer Klaus-Peter Kappest had been annoyed with slow home uploads Photographer enlisted help of rider Jakob Schuette in his village, Oberkirchen By Gregory Kirby For The Daily Mail … Read more
The UK Government looks set to fall short on its promise to give millions of people their first coronavirus jab by Christmas, official statistics suggest. A total of 138,000 Britons received the breakthrough Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the first week of the rollout up to December 15, which ministers hailed as ‘a really good start’. But at … Read more
A strain of Covid-19 behind an outbreak in South Australia may be spreading up to five times quicker than normal, officials fear. Concerned health bosses say the incubation period — how long it takes for someone to show symptoms after getting infected — was ‘very very short’. Professor Nicola Spurrier, chief health officer for South … Read more
A family of desperate Kurdish-Iranian migrants who paid people smugglers £21,600 for a new life in Britain agonised over the decision in a French tent city for days – before making the tragic fatal crossing with the hope of a ‘quicker’ asylum process and a decent education for the children in the UK. Construction worker Rasoul … Read more
‘It happened quicker than we expected’: Kara Tointon reveals she is pregnant with her second child almost two years after welcoming her son Frey with fiancé Marius Jensen The actress, 37, has confirmed to Hello! magazine that she is having another baby, a boy, with her Norwegian fiance Marius She said: ‘At the beginning of the … Read more
Pioneering smart display device that attaches to a surgeon’s glasses and displays images in front of their eyes ‘could make spinal operations safer and quicker’ Spinal surgeons use real-time X-ray scans during operations to guide their work However, such images are typically displayed on monitors in the operating room This forces surgeons to look away … Read more
Your parents’ HEIGHT is to blame for your taste in music: Study shows babies raised by shorter mothers and fathers prefer faster beats because their strides are quicker Cambridge researchers found babies’ natural rhythm is shaped by their parents A baby’s preferred musical beat is influenced by their parent’s walking pace Parents with shorter legs walk … Read more
Elderly people living today are fitter and healthier than they were 30 years ago, according to a study by Finnish researchers. As a result of better nutrition, hygiene and healthcare people between 75 and 80 years of age now walk, on average, up to 1mph (33 per cent) faster than they did in 1990. The … Read more