Center Parcs closes ALL its British sites until January 7 ‘with heavy heart’ due to Covid super-strain Center Parcs has announced it will close all five of its UK woodland resorts Company said staying open would go against government’s advice to ‘stay local’ Elveden, Longleat, Whinfell, Woburn and Sherwood Forests will now remain shut until at … Read more
London‘s Cafe de Paris has announced it is closing its doors permanently after 95 years as an iconic caberet venue that hosted the like of Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. The venue in London’s West End survived a direct hit during The Blitz, but it was finished off by the ‘devastating’ effect of the Covid-19 … Read more
Shut down: Tracey Emin (pictured above), whose exhibition took three years to organise Artist Tracey Emin has launched a furious assault on Government Ministers, calling them ‘philistines’ for keeping shops and gyms open in the Covid crisis but allowing galleries and museums to shut down. Her latest exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which … Read more
Butlin’s will shut down two of its holiday resorts in an effort to keep its staff and guests safe and reduce the spread of coronavirus as more areas are plunged into the strictest Tier 3 restrictions. The holiday firm confirmed that its resorts in Bognor Regis, west Sussex, and Minehead in Somerset, will close from … Read more
The Pakistani zoo which once housed the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ Kaavan has now closed for good after the last of its animals were taken to shelters overseas. Marghazar Zoo, in the capital Islamabad, shut its doors on Wednesday following the departure of Bubloo and Suzie, two Himalayan brown bears who had been kept in captivity … Read more
A huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons is now just 30 miles away from South Georgia – threatening the habitat of millions of penguins. Iceberg A68a – which broke from the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 – slid towards the open ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar … Read more
Eton College CLOSES due to outbreak of coronavirus with boys sent home from the prestigious private school as soon as possible and lessons moving online until after Christmas £42,500-a-year school’s headmaster Simon Henderson wrote a letter to parents Said ‘a large number of symptomatic boys and staff tested positive’ for the virus Mr Henderson said there … Read more
Should you ever be lucky enough to visit Almhult in Sweden, there’s only one place to stay — the Ikea Hotel. In the drawer of your sparse room, furnished with an Ikea bed, Ikea curtains and Ikea Grusblad duvet, you will find two publications: the Gideons New Testament and the Ikea catalogue. It’s an apt … Read more
A medical centre has closed after one member of staff tested positive for coronavirus and ‘a large number’ were forced to self-isolate – sparking concern for patients at the practice. Ardblair Medical Centre in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, closed and its phone number was set to direct patients to NHS 111 after an unknown number of its … Read more
The US Supreme Court has ordered all late mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania to be counted separately, as Joe Biden continues to pick up steam in the state where he now leads by more than 19,000 votes. Justice Samuel Alito on Friday announced all Pennsylvania counties must segregate ballots that arrived after Election Day, following an … Read more