£100 fine for cigarette at school gates: Wales introduces Britain’s toughest smoking rules with penalties for anyone spotted sparking up outside hospitals, schools and childminders The Welsh Government is introducing stricter new anti-smoking rules on March 1 Smoking outside schools, hospitals or in public playgrounds will be outlawed People will not be able to smoke … Read more
President Joe Biden unveiled his immigration plan on Thursday, a proposal that offers one of the fastest pathways to citizenship of any measure in recent years. However, the plan doesn’t contain any details on enhanced border security, which past measures have included as a way to win Republican votes. Congressional Democrats released the legislation Thursday on Capitol … Read more
Facebook will no longer allow people in Australia to read or share news on its platform, the media giant has said. The move is a response to the country’s proposed Media Bargaining law, which forces tech companies like Facebook and Google to negotiate with news providers to feature their content. Those in favour of the … Read more
Devon village bans sale of cheap polystyrene body boards that break up in the sea and harm wildlife after landslide referendum vote Westward Ho! near Bideford in Devon has self-imposed polystyrene board ban Polystyrene boards can harm wildlife which confuse plastic particles for food Andrew Cross of Plastic Free Torridge hailed the efforts of shops … Read more
China has banned BBC World News claiming it is not ‘truthful and fair’ a week after Beijing’s propaganda channel was kicked off British TV screens. The Communist regime accused the BBC of ‘seriously violating’ broadcasting regulations, harming Chinese interests and undermining national unity. Beijing has previously accused the British public broadcaster of ‘fake news’ on … Read more
Twitter permanently suspended Project Veritas from its platform Thursday, citing repeated violations of their rules ‘against posting private information’. The conservative watchdog’s founder, James O’Keefe, was also temporarily locked out of his account for beaching the same privacy policy, pending the deletion of tweet, a spokesperson told the Daily Beast. The suspensions reportedly stem from … Read more
Canada announced stricter restrictions on travelers including a mandatory $2,000 hotel quarantine, multiple tests, increased ‘surveillance’ and banning all flight to Mexico and the Caribbean. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the new measures on Friday in response to the more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus. Starting next week, all international passenger flights to Canada … Read more
Pets in lets: Government makes it harder to impose ‘blanket bans’ on tenants having animals – but landlords want to charge higher deposits The Government’s model rental contract now allows pets as the ‘default’ Landlords using it will need to provide a ‘good reason’ for not allowing animals The industry body says they should be … Read more
The UK’s advertising watchdog has banned the adverts of two unregulated lead generators after they were found to have mimicked legitimate debt charities and claimed to be endorsed by the Government. The websites ‘writeoffmydebt’ and ‘stepdebtsupport’ were criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority after a series of complaints by the Government-funded Money and Pensions Service, … Read more
Portugal’s socialist Prime Minister has banned private schools from teaching pupils remotely during a two-week classroom closure. The minority Socialist-led government of Antonio Costa said that allowing private institutions to teach remotely would put state school pupils at a disadvantage. The Portuguese government ordered all schools closed for two weeks last Thursday to slow contagion … Read more