BBC is slammed for ‘wasting’ £26.6m of licence fee money making 310 staff redundant

BBC is slammed for ‘wasting’ £26.6m of licence fee money making 310 staff redundant – with £100,000-plus packages for SCORES of people Over the last eight months BBC spent £26.6m making 310 employees redundant  Average of £100,661 each was given to 221 staff who took voluntary redundancy 93 were handed an average of £46,773 in … Read more

Parents reveal three sons all have ‘catastrophic’ muscle wasting disease

The parents of three sons were all diagnosed with a ‘catastrophic’ muscle wasting disease say their children give them the ‘hope and resilience’ to keep going.  Archie Naughton, 14, from County Roscommon, and his identical twin brothers, 10, George and Isaac were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in 2012.  The genetic disease, which causes muscle tissue to … Read more

I’m A Celebrity 2020: Vernon Kay says he’s ‘wasting away’

I’m A Celebrity 2020: Vernon Kay says he’s ‘wasting away’ as he looks forward to having extra portions of Christmas dinner By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline Published: 22:00 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 22:09 GMT, 1 December 2020 Vernon Kay said he’s ‘wasting away’ when he looks in the mirror in Tuesday’s episode of … Read more

Cash-strapped families are wasting thousands of pounds on boiler cover

Cash-strapped families are wasting thousands of pounds on boiler cover they don’t need as nine in ten houses would be better off paying for repairs, Which? research reveals Nine in ten households would be better off if they ditched costly boiler cover Half of customers said that they needed their boiler fixed in the past … Read more

NHS accused of wasting ‘eye-watering’ amount of money

NHS accused of wasting ‘eye-watering’ amount of money as main ‘test and trace’ contract costs taxpayers £900 per person contacted Virus ‘test and trace’ contract cost taxpayers £900-plus per person contacted  Thousands of contact tracers have been employed but many have no work to do  Labour health spokesman said scheme should have been run in-house  … Read more

Sarah Wilson shares her tips and tricks for wasting less food including storing salad in pillowcases

Health guru Sarah Wilson has shared the tips and tricks you need to know in order to waste less food around the house – including storing your salad leaves in pillowcases and freezing any leftover nuts. The I Quit Sugar Founder, 45, is famously careful with waste of any kind, admitting last year that she … Read more

Council is accused of wasting taxpayers money by painting ‘Thank you NHS’ messages on roads

A council has been accused of ‘wasting taxes’ and trying to earn ‘brownie points’ by painting a ‘thank you NHS’ messages on a busy road instead of attending to its potholes. Swindon Borough Council took to social media to reveal that its Highways Team had painted a thank you message to NHS staff in an … Read more

Sadiq Khan is blasted for ‘wasting time’ by not giving bus drivers PPE

Sadiq Khan was criticised again today for refusing to give London bus drivers protective masks despite nine dying from coronavirus, as he launched a two-week trial to test if passengers could use the middle door.  The approach is meant to reduce contact between drivers and their passengers, but critics – including the families of Transport … Read more

Gwyneth Paltrow discusses her childhood, not ‘wasting her life’ and hitting back at her critics

She’s known for her passion for wellness and is the founder of multi-million pound company, Goop.  And Gwyneth Paltrow, 47, discusses what led her to take that path and admits ‘there wasn’t a lot of wellness’ in her family home growing up.  Flashing her toned abs in a series of crop-tops for her cover shoot … Read more

Coronavirus stockpilers wasting unused food are bringing vermin mice rats and ants into homes

Streets up and down Britain are littered with rubbish just one week into lockdown, with bin men off sick, waste collections scaled back and families unable to eat all the food they stockpiled. Several local authorities have stopped collecting food and garden waste because so many bin men are self-isolating. Residents are being told to … Read more