Tory MP sparks racism row after claiming ‘vast majority’ of lockdown breakers are BAME

Tory MP sparks racism row after claiming the ‘vast majority’ of lockdown rule-breakers are from BAME communities Craig Whittaker, of Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, has sparked a racism row He said ‘sections of our community are just not taking the pandemic seriously’ The MP made the comments after local lockdowns  were imposed in the North By … Read more

David and Victoria Beckham’s plans to build a vast LAKE are BLOCKED

David and Victoria Beckham’s plans to build a vast LAKE on their £6m Cotswolds estate are BLOCKED amid concerns over protected wildlife By Ciara Farmer For Mailonline Published: 08:43 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 08:43 BST, 21 July 2020 The Beckham family’s plans to build a lake in the grounds of their £6million Cotswolds … Read more

Britain’s vast road network puts pipits and lapwings at risk

The UK’s complex and dense road network is helping common birds to thrive, but is having a disastrous impact on some of Britain’s most loved species.  Rarer, small-bodied and migrant bird species, such as meadow pipits and lapwings, are impacted the hardest by exposure to Britain’s 246,000 miles of road.  Birds are not only killed … Read more

Vast salty ocean inside Jupiter’s moon Europa ‘contains all the ingredients for life’

ALIENS could be living inside Jupiter’s moon Europa, say scientists as they find salty ice-covered ocean that ‘contains all the ingredients for life’ Researchers in California created simulations of Europa’s past geochemistry They found that minerals in the moon may have broken down to release water This water then formed a salty ocean that could be ‘quite … Read more

Experts fear vast numbers of people will end up on antidepressants they don’t need

As if the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, unprecedented numbers of people are suffering emotional fallout from isolation, money worries and fear of coronavirus infection, leaving Britain facing a tidal wave of anxiety and depression. That’s the stark warning from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with the organisation’s president, Professor Wendy Burn, declaring: ‘Our fear is … Read more

Pluto has a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust and could harbour alien life, study shows

Pluto harbours a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust that has been there for 4.5 billion years – 500 million years longer than Earth’s seas – a study has found.  Pluto is known today as a ball of frozen ice and rock orbiting the sun at a distance of 3.7 billion miles.  But a new … Read more

Rochelle Humes showcases the vast difference in her bump in just two weeks

Rochelle Humes showcases the vast difference in her bump in just two weeks as she reaches the middle of her pregnancy… while husband Marvin admits it feels ‘weird’ having a boy By Ciara Farmer For Mailonline Published: 10:09 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 10:09 BST, 29 May 2020 She is expecting her third child … Read more

Destruction caused by humans is so vast it could wipe out species history

Human activity is destroying more than 50 billion years of evolutionary history, with the Caribbean and parts of Southeast Asia hit the hardest, researchers claim. The study, by the Zoological Society of London and Imperial College mapped the evolutionary history of the world’s land vertebrates including birds and mammals. An ever increasing ‘human footprint’ with … Read more

Nicola Sturgeon says vast majority of Scots support ‘slow and gradual’  lockdown lifting strategy

Nicola Sturgeon says the vast majority of Scots support her government’s ‘slow and gradual’ lockdown lifting strategy as she vows to ‘err on the side of saving lives’ First Minister said polling shows 84 per cent support a ‘slow and gradual’ lifting  86 per cent said ‘decisions on when and how to lift restrictions must … Read more