Coronavirus UK: Could Tees Valley and Tyneside AVOID Tier Three?

What is the row over Tier Three bailouts?   The government has been engaged in brutal haggling with local leaders across swathes of England about the financial package linked to entering Tier Three restrictions. The funding is on top of the government’s wider job support scheme for workers put on hold due to lockdown, and business … Read more

Volunteer in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine trial dies in Brazil

A volunteer in the Brazilian arm of AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial has died.    Brazilian health authority Anvisa stated on Wednesday that it had just received information from an investigation into the death. The Federal University of São Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase III clinical trials in Brazil, separately said that the … Read more

Could Tees Valley and Tyneside AVOID Tier Three? Anti-Covid steps show signs of working

What is the row over Tier Three bailouts?   The government has been engaged in brutal haggling with local leaders across swathes of England about the financial package linked to entering Tier Three restrictions. The funding is on top of the government’s wider job support scheme for workers put on hold due to lockdown, and business … Read more

Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to three criminal charges

Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion for its alleged role in fueling America’s opioid epidemic, Justice Department officials confirmed Wednesday. United States Deputy Attorney General. Jeffrey A. Rosen announced the deal in a press conference Wednesday … Read more

UEFA claim breakaway league would be ‘boring’

UEFA claim breakaway league would be ‘boring’ and plans to get it off the ground are impossible as Manchester United, Man City and Liverpool emerge as key movers in talks Fresh reports of a breakaway European league emerged on Tuesday afternoon  UEFA and FIFA are understood to be in dispute over the threat the plans … Read more

Melania Trump CANCELS trip to rally with her husband tonight because of ‘lingering cough’ 

Melania Trump canceled her trip to Pennsylvania on Tuesday night to campaign with President Donald Trump, citing a ‘linger cough’ after her battle with COVID. ‘Mrs. Trump continues to feel better every day following her recovery from COVID-19, but with a lingering cough, and out of an abundance of caution, she will not be traveling today,’ … Read more

Manchester United and Liverpool in £4.6BILLION talks to set up a ‘European Premier League’

Manchester United and Liverpool are key movers in talks to form a £4.6bn ‘European Premier League’ involving five English clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and the top sides in Italy and Germany… days after their Project Big Picture was axed Liverpool and Manchester United are in talks over a groundbreaking new league A new report … Read more

Massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Alaska sparking tsunami warning 

A colossal 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Alaska on Monday, sparking a tsunami warning and sending families fleeing for higher ground.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that a earthquake struck 55 miles southeast of Sand Point at 4.54pm EST.  Just minutes later, the National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning in South … Read more

Mother, 30, admits killing church warden, 88, in Co-op during stabbing spree

A 30-year-old mother has pleaded guilty to killing an 88-year-old church warden and stabbing three other shoppers in a frenzied knife attack in a crowded supermarket.     Mother-of-one Zara Anne Radcliffe stabbed John Rees in the face inside a Co-op shop while his 87-year-old dementia-suffering wife Eunice waited in their car in the village of Peygraig in the Rhondda, South Wales, in … Read more

Twitter does a U-turn and starts allowing people to share Biden Ukraine story again

Twitter is no longer blocking links to the Joe Biden Ukraine story and has now changed its policies to say it will label posts it finds questionable instead of removing them or stopping people from sharing them, after being threatened with subpoenas and investigations by Republicans.  The about-turn came on Thursday night after an explosive … Read more