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Britain is set for SIXTY Nightingale courts: £113m boost for modifications to hotel conference rooms and event spaces to accommodate more trials Modifications to be made to hotel conference rooms and event spaces for trials At Manchester Crown Court walls will be knocked down to create ‘super court’ Justice Secretary Robert Buckland hailed it as … Read more
Britain is set for SIXTY Nightingale courts: £113m boost for modifications to hotel conference rooms and event spaces to accommodate more trials Modifications to be made to hotel conference rooms and event spaces for trials At Manchester Crown Court walls will be knocked down to create ‘super court’ Justice Secretary Robert Buckland hailed it as … Read more
Disturbing images reveal dead birds floating in the River Severn as 60 of Worcester’s 300 swans have been wiped out by bird flu. The city’s emblematic swan population has decreased by one fifth as the River Severn has been filled with carcasses, leading locals to rename it a ‘swan graveyard’. Wildlife experts fear the number of swan deaths … Read more
The world’s coldest school run: Hardy Russian children who walk to school in minus SIXTY Fahrenheit Temperatures hit minus 51C (-60F) in Oymyakon, a Siberian village, on Tuesday Video shows the well wrapped-up youngsters trudging through snow deep snow It is believed to have been the coldest school day anywhere in the world The village … Read more
More than a third of Americans now want the government to create more of a social safety net – ensuring health and unemployment benefits – an increase of 40 percent since the coronavirus pandemic came to the US. As of April, 60 percent of Americans favored universal health insurance, according to a new Johns Hopkins … Read more
Education experts have criticised the ‘staggering’ number of A grades in the revised A-level results as modern foreign languages, maths and classics are revealed as the subjects with the highest rate of A or A* grades in England. Results based on teachers assessed grades showed more than 10 per cent of entries have been upgraded … Read more
What are the qualities we most value in a crisis? Experience, competence, calmness, wisdom. All of which, says Pat Mitchell, the 77-year-old media mogul and grandmother of 13, are possessed in spades by women in midlife and beyond. Named one of the world’s most powerful women over 50 by The Huffington Post, Mitchell sees in … Read more
Sixty Italian priests have died amid country’s coronavirus pandemic and Pope’s call for them to be brave enough to attend the sick Among Italy’s 5,476 dead are at least 60 priests who tested positive for the virus Pope Francis called on priests to ‘have courage to go out to the sick’ this month In Bergamo, in … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more