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Hundreds of people raced to clinics in Washington state for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine after a freezer failure put thousands of doses at risk of spoiling. Around 8.50pm on Thursday, an alarm went off on a freezer unit holding 1,650 doses of the Moderna vaccine at Kaiser Permanente in Seattle, which – … Read more
Weekly state COVID-19 reports ‘hidden’ by the Trump administration are released for the first time under Biden – and reveal that Arizona, South Carolina and California are the nation’s WORST hotspots Trump administration officials sent states weekly COVID-19 reports Confidential but often leaked reports painted a more dire picture of the pandemic than officials painted … Read more
Many elderly women lost out on state pension because junior civil servants failed to manually update their individual records during past decades, it has emerged. Well over a 100 government staff are now working to assess and manually correct individual records and more are being assigned to sort out the ‘significant legacy issue’, MPs have … Read more
Stephen Fry says Eton pupils are just as likely to self-harm as children from rough state schools and should not be dismissed as ‘privileged’ Stephen Fry, 63, said he noticed a ‘general rise in unhappiness amongst young’ The actor and comedian said school pupils from all backgrounds were suffering Fry added: ‘There doesn’t seem to be … Read more
Boris Johnson is reportedly flying to Scotland this week ‘to save the Union’. Why? It’s not as if he hasn’t anything better to do, apart from the small matters of dealing with a global pandemic and the economy going to hell in a handcart. Yet the Prime Minister is about to drop everything to race … Read more
1603 James IV of Scotland becomes James I of England, after succeeding Elizabeth I. From this point on the nations have the same monarch. 1707 England and Scotland are formally joined in the Act of Union. 1934 The Scottish Nationalist Party is formed, calling for the creation of a separate Scottish assembly. 1942 The SNP … Read more
I am a 53 year old man who has worked since leaving school. From 1988 to 2006 I belonged to a company pension which required me to be ‘contracted out’ for 18 years. How will this affect my state pension? SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUT HOW TO ASK STEVE YOUR PENSION QUESTION Payments reduced: How … Read more
Jill Biden subtly paid tribute to every U.S. state and territory during Wednesday night’s virtual inaugural concert with her custom outfit by Uruguayan-American designer Gabriela Hearst. The First Lady, 69, attended her husband’s inauguration in an ocean blue tweed coat and dress by New York-based designer Alexandra O’Neill, the founder and creative director of Markarian, but she later changed … Read more
PICTURED: Trump’s mothballed private Boeing 737 lies on tarmac in upstate New York with covers over the engines because he didn’t think he would need it until 2025 (but he still has a Cessna and a helicopter) Donald Trump’s $100 million Boeing 757 is sitting at Stewart Airport in New York The plane has not … Read more
California on Wednesday became the first state to record more than three million known coronavirus infections, according to state health department data. As the largest state in the union with 40 million residents, it’s not entirely surprising, but the speed at which infections have surged is stunning. The first coronavirus case in California was confirmed … Read more