High complaints bill causes Amigo Loans to fall to £38m loss

Shares in Amigo plunge as high cost of complaints sends loans company to £27m loss Shares in the subprime lender fell by 23.7 per cent to 7.4p by mid-afternoon  Amigo’s Acting Chair said it had undergone a ‘challenging and difficult period’   The firm recently agreed to resolve all complaints against them by October 31  By … Read more

Venus has 37 currently active volcano like structures on its surface

Venus is geologically active and has as many as 37 recently ‘live’ volcanic structures called coronae that are dotted across its surface, according to astrogeologists. This overturns a previous theory that these ‘volcanic structures’ – first spotted through satellite observations of the planet – were long extinct. Researchers from the University of Maryland and the … Read more

School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests

School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests: Korean CDC finds middle and high school-age children can spread the virus just as easily as adults The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at household and nonhousehold contacts of more than 5,700 coronavirus patients Children under age 10 were about half as likely as … Read more

High-flying student, 20, is jailed for 30 months over ‘sickening’ Covid-19 scam

A high-flying student who masterminded a ‘sickening’ coronavirus swindle against the most vulnerable members of the public was today jailed for 30 weeks. Mohammed Khan, 20, sent thousands of fraudulent texts and emails inviting unwitting victims to fill in their bank details in exchange for ‘a Covid-19 tax break’. The messages were carefully modelled on … Read more

Dominic Raab announces extradition treaty with Hong Kong is being suspended

Dominic Raab today announced the UK’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong is being ‘immediately and indefinitely’ suspended after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law.  The Foreign Secretary said the UK wants a ‘positive relationship’ with China but ‘we will be clear where we disagree’.  He said: ‘I have consulted with the Home Secretary, the … Read more

Antibody tests are back on the market in Superdrug

Britons can now buy coronavirus antibody tests on the high street to find out if they have had Covid-19 in the past.  Superdrug has today relaunched its blood testing service after having it shut down by regulators in May over accuracy concerns. The retailer changed its service to take blood from veins instead of relying … Read more

Coronavirus India: Cases hit 1.1m with 40,425 in one day

India has piled up more than 40,000 coronavirus cases in a day for the first time as the world’s third-largest outbreak continues to worsen.  The 40,425 new cases announced today bring the total from 1,077,618 to 1,118,043, three days after India became the third country in the world to pass a million cases.  Another 681 … Read more

Disney World bans eating and drinking while walking around the theme park

Disney World bans eating and drinking while walking around the theme park to promote the use of facemasks Visitors must now remain stationary and socially distanced while eating Comes after guests exploited loop hole which allows masks to be removed while consuming food or beverages  The wearing of face masks has been strictly enforced since … Read more

Gisele Bundchen is 40! Tom Brady shares a loving tribute to the supermodel

Gisele Bundchen is 40! Her husband Tom Brady shares a loving tribute to the supermodel: ‘You are the sunshine of my life’ By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 14:38 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 14:59 BST, 20 July 2020 Tom Brady shared a sweet family portrait on Monday to wish his wife Gisele Bundchen … Read more

Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and provokes an immune reaction

Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and provokes an immune reaction, findings of the first phases of the trial show. Hugely-anticipated clinical trial results today revealed that up to 100 per cent of people who were given the jab produced an immune response to coronavirus. In a tiny sub-group of 35 participants out of 477, … Read more