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Interest from wealthy buyers has soared for luxury underground bunkers in South Dakota since the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic. The Vivos xPoint bunkers, which are built on a former US Army base near the Black Hills area of South Dakota, come fully equipped with swimming pools, tennis courts, exercise spaces, pre-stocked gourmet food, … Read more
Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again has soared 830 places to number 22 in the iTunes download charts after the Queen made a reference to the famous WWII anthem during her coronavirus address. The song struck a chord with Britons who had been separated from their loved ones during the chaos of war and has gained … Read more
Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again has soared 674 places to number 37 in the iTunes download charts after the Queen made a reference to the famous WWII anthem during her coronavirus address. The song became loved by Britons who had been separated from their loved ones during the chaos of war and has gained a … Read more
Just four weeks after the UK recorded its first death from the coronavirus on 5 March, Friday saw the number of UK deaths surpass the reported total in China, the epicentre of the virus. The UK death toll increased again on Friday as 684 patients died in hospital, bringing the county’s total to 3,605, overtaking … Read more
Domestic abuse has soared by an estimated 30 per cent as victims are trapped with abusive partners during the coronavirus lockdown, it has been reported. The victims’ commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, has called on the government to find extra funding for the sector to support victims and announce a strategy as it’s ‘another epidemic alongside … Read more
Households have been urged not to undertake major clear-outs during the coronavirus lockdown to stop the rise in fly-tipping. There have also been calls on the Government to designate recycling centre workers as part of an essential service, to help prevent the problem. It comes as fly-tipping has surged as much as 300 per cent as … Read more
Wall Street rallied on Thursday as hopes for a truce in the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and a cut in oil output drove gains, taking some sting out of a shocking jump in Americans filing jobless claims due to coronavirus-led lockdowns. At the closing bell, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 469.93 points, … Read more
The US coronavirus death toll soared to more than 4,000 last night, doubling within three days, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths went up by 889 on Tuesday to 4,076 – more than twice the 2,010 recorded late Saturday – and more than 40 percent of the fatalities were … Read more
Ireland’s coronavirus death toll has jumped by nearly a third in one day with ten further fatalities bringing the total to 46. There are now 2,615 confirmed cases in the country after a daily increase of 200. Eight of the latest victims were male, two were female. Six of the deaths occurred in the east … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic in New York grows worse as one 24-hour period brought another 222 deaths to the city and 834 dead across the state as of Saturday. The Empire State has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, accounting for nearly half of the total number of cases nationwide. New York … Read more