Jeremy the left-coiling lovelorn garden snail captured the nation’s heart when scientists put out an appeal to help him find love – but his children weren’t what they were expecting. No stone was left unturned as Britons hunted for another ‘super rare’ left-spiralling snail to be his mate back in 2016, as the ‘shellebrity’s’ mirror-imaged … Read more
Almost three-quarters of a million MOTs were still carried out last month, despite the government giving motorists a six-month test exemption from 30 March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Motorists were urged to not use their cars during stricter lockdown rules in April, with only front-line and essential workers allowed to continue driving and have … Read more
The Government was facing fresh questions over its coronavirus testing regime tonight as the number carried out fell by more than 40 per cent in just four days. Some 69,463 took place in the 24 hours to 9am today, according to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. That figure is just 57 per cent of the 122,327 … Read more
‘We WILL meet testing target’: Dominic Raab vows to get 100,000 coronavirus tests carried out every day by next week Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the target as he clashed with Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer A tiny number of MPs joined in the Commons while most dialled in remotely Downing Street yesterday confirmed that just … Read more
They’re considered the key to letting countries out of lockdown, allowing officials to get a clearer picture of the true size of the coronavirus outbreak. But the UK has still only carried out fewer than 5,000 antibody tests – despite mass schemes being carried out across the globe. Italy has begun screening the blood of … Read more
President Donald Trump has bashed governors who he says have taken shutdown orders too far in the coronavirus pandemic, saying ‘some of them are being unreasonable’ as protests against the lockdowns spread across the nation. ‘There are a lot of protests out there, and I just think that some of the governors have gotten carried … Read more