Carbon tax plan gets binned by Boris Johnson amid fear it would spark a rise in food prices Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dropped plans to introduce a carbon tax The move would have seen prices for meat, cheese and gas rise sharply Whitehall departments had been asked to draw up a ‘price’ for carbon … Read more
Pensioners arriving to be vaccinated at London’s ExCel Centre today complained they had been left ‘breathless’ by tackling ‘gruelling’ ramps and queuing for 20 minutes in bitterly cold temperatures. Patients were forced to climb banks of stairs or negotiate their way up steep ramps to reach the entrance of the vaccination centre. One man had to … Read more
Furious pub landlords say ‘astronomical’ amounts of food are being binned because of the government’s substantial meal rule. Beleaguered hospitality industry bosses say customers are only ordering food including chips, scotch eggs and oysters because they ‘have to’, without any intention of eating it. They say restrictions in the Covid tier systems are ‘doing more … Read more
Lost video tapes of Top of the Pops come to light 50 years after they were binned by the BBC including performances from Elvis Presley and Status Quo A man from Wales used a Sony CV-2000 to record performances between 1971 and 1976 Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, are selling the collection Auction will take … Read more
Lost video tapes of Top of the Pops come to light 50 years after they were binned by the BBC including performances from Elvis Presley and Status Quo A man from Wales used a Sony CV-2000 to record performances between 1971 and 1976 Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, are selling the collection Auction will take … Read more
A student was left ‘disgusted’ after her university halls threw away ‘everything she owns’ when she wasn’t allowed to return to her accomodation because of Covid-19. Hannah Mullins, from London, who studies graphic design at the University of Brighton, had made an appointment to collect her belongings after she was forced to leave the accommodation at … Read more