‘Sort it out Gandalf!’: Sir Ian McKellen is urged to step-in after East End pub he owns ‘threatened to sack’ barman who was too scared to return because his diabetes puts him at risk of Covid East End pub The Grapes told staff they had to return on July 4 for reopening But diabetes sufferer … Read more
Ministers ‘will not be forgiven’ if they fail to act over pelvic mesh scandal which ruined thousands of lives, author of damning report warns Report found thousands of UK women and children harmed by mesh implants Baroness Cumberlege, who led the enquiry, said patients had waited ‘too long’ Health Secretary Matt Hancock has issued an … Read more
The world’s oldest set of conjoined twins, Ronnie and Donnie Gaylon, 68, died on July 4, in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon have been turning heads since they were born on October 28, 1951 to parents Eileen and Wesley Gaylon, who were not expecting twins, much less conjoined twins. They were healthy … Read more
The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, but experts fear celebrations for the July 4th Independence Day weekend will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging outbreak. Johns Hopkins University, which tallies confirmed cases, counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections in the U.S. on Saturday. … Read more
The Mayor of Leicester had been warned that some manufacturing companies were breaching Covid-19 social distancing guidelines three months ago, a former minister has claimed. Sir Peter Soulsby, 71, and his Labour councillors wer warned by local Tory politicians of the ‘shuttered premises’ in which textile workers were operating amid the coronavirus lockdown. Former minister … Read more
Tom Ilube was in his 20s when a headhunter put him forward for a job at a big City firm. He was told the boss remarked: ‘Ilube, that’s an interesting name. Is he black?’ On hearing that he was, the boss exploded: ‘Don’t you know? We don’t employ black people.’ Thankfully, times have altered since … Read more
Priti Patel has read the riot act to the Bristol police chief whose officers failed to stop Black Lives Matter protesters ripping down a slave trader’s statue. The Home Secretary is demanding the culprits face prosecution as she doubles down her zero tolerance approach to wanton criminality during the demonstrations. She stamped down her authority … Read more
The Dutch government has ordered the closure of mink fur farms amid fears that they could act as ‘reservoirs’ for COVID-19 after two workers caught the disease. Nine infected farms will be closed from tomorrow, with thousands of mink — whose glossy coats are prized for fur clothing — to be culled in the cautionary … Read more
Boris Johnson’s government has made many startling missteps as it has sought to manage the coronavirus pandemic. Some have been understandable; this is a new virus and the havoc wreaked, unprecedented. Others have been the result of incompetence or complacency. There is one ‘misstep’, however, that stands out as profoundly stupid. That‘s the decision to … Read more
Mussel beds act as traps for microplastic pollution dumped in the ocean by slowing the sea water flowing over them, research shows Experts experimented with flowing water over different mussel reef structures When the mussels clumped together like in nature, the flow became turbulent This increased threefold the amount of microplastic ingested by the mussels By Ian … Read more