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Hidden jobs crisis on the High Street: Redundancies by big-name retailers are just the tip of the iceberg as we reveal small shops have shed at least 53,000 staff By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 10 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 10 August 2020 Britain’s independent retailers have been forced … Read more
Amber, often used in jewellery, is fossilised tree resin, and the oldest dates back more than 300 million years. In the past few years the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, formerly Burma, has yielded numerous finds. In January 2017, researchers discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber which bore a passing resemblance to ET. Its features were … Read more
Jyoti Amge, 26, is the world’s smallest woman. Standing just 2 feet tall and weighing only 12 pounds; Amge’s powerhouse personality is barely contained in her very tiny body. In India, she’s heralded as a goddess, but ‘Jyoti doesn’t believe shes a god,’ said her mother, Ranjana Amge. ‘She wants to be an actor and behaves accordingly.’ … Read more
Jyoti Amge, 26, is the world’s smallest woman. Standing just 2 feet tall and weighing only 12 pounds; Amge’s powerhouse personality is barely contained in her very tiny body. In India, she’s heralded as a goddess, but ‘Jyoti doesn’t believe shes a god,’ said her mother, Ranjana Amge. ‘She wants to be an actor and behaves accordingly.’ … Read more
Harvard team shrinks cockroach-inspired robot to the size of a PENNY making it one of the smallest and fastest micro bots ever made The bot is only 2.25 centimeters and can travel at 14 body lengths per second It is one of the smallest and fastest micro bots every made The bot was partly a test … Read more
Is this the world’s smallest prison? The tiny Channel Island jail that has just TWO CELLS (and a narrow corridor) The prison was built on the island of Sark in 1856 and houses offenders for a maximum of two days Sark is a tiny island measuring just 2.1 square miles, with a tiny population, just … Read more
Chancellor considering plans to offer 100% government guarantees on loans to up to 1m of UK’s smallest firms after pressure from Tory MPs and Bank By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:55 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 24 April 2020 The Chancellor is considering plans to offer 100 per cent … Read more
One of Britain’s smallest twins boys who was born at just 23 weeks and weighed less than a tin of beans has died in his mother’s arms aged nine months after a battle with a chronic lung disease. Talia Keates, 33, who was already a mother-of-four, gave birth to twin brothers Ashley and Joe in … Read more
Pictured: The clump of 33 trees in Alaska that forms ‘America’s smallest national forest’ The forest is located on Adak Island, part of the volcanic Aleutian archipelago The first trees on the spot were planted to cheer up Second World War troops Around 6,000 troops were stationed on the island to guard against the Japanese By … Read more
Italy today recorded its smallest increase in coronavirus infections for almost four weeks, with just 3,309 new cases, in the latest sign the lockdown has been a success. It amounts to a 2.3 percent rise in new cases, compared to a 2.8 percent rise on Monday, when 3,559 new cases were recorded. In addition, there … Read more