Mike Ashley’s Frasers asks suppliers to cut 20% off unpaid bills

Mike Ashley’s Frasers asks suppliers to cut 20% off unpaid invoices for stock  Sports Direct and House of Fraser are in arrears to suppliers The discount would be applied to bills for stock that would be ‘out of season’ By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:21 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: … Read more

Bring on the new ventilators… but who is going to operate them, asks Dr MARTIN SCURR

Yet another sign of the impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on us is how much talk there is, even among the public, about the number of ventilators at the NHS‘s disposal. At the time of writing we have 8,000 to 10,000, but the race is on to get more. Even the Trump administration in … Read more

Tory health minister Helen Whately sniggers as Piers Morgan asks about 4,000 care home deaths

Care minister Helen Whately was blasted today for sniggering in a car crash TV interview as it was revealed a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in nursing and old-people’s homes may have cost 4,000 lives. She was taken to task by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain as he grilled her over an exclusive report in the Daily … Read more

US government asks for all field research involving bats be suspended during COVID-19 pandemic

US warns researchers against studying bats citing concerns that they could spread coronavirus to North American species and trigger another wave of the infection US government officials have suspended all bat research during COVID-19 They fear humans could pass the virus to bats, making the pandemic harder to contain and eventually eliminate Bats are common … Read more