Good call! Communities urged to adopt an iconic red phone box

Good call! Communities urged to adopt an iconic red phone box and give it a new lease of life By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 5 April 2021 Communities are being urged to take ownership of iconic red phone boxes as they are retired … Read more

Only Arizona and Montana have given more vaccines to vulnerable communities

Vaccines are going to the WRONG people in at least 31 states: Only Arizona and Montana have given more shots in counties where high rates of poverty, elderly and minority residents make more people vulnerable to COVID-19, CDC report finds A new CDC report looked at vaccination rates in counties where residents were at high … Read more

Radio 4’s Sarah Sands found peace in the world’s most isolated communities 

SOCIETY  The Interior Silence  By Sarah Sands (Short Books £12.99, 256pp)  Speed and judgment are the characteristics of our time,’ says Sarah Sands.  And as editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme from 2017 to 2020, she found her life was dominated by both. Listeners were divided over Brexit and she describes Today as a lightning … Read more

BAME communities are being put at risk by UK’s ‘colour-blind’ Covid vaccine strategy, experts warn

Black and ethnic minority people are being put at risk by the UK’s ‘colour-blind’ Covid vaccination strategy, experts warned today. The mammoth operation has prioritised Brits by age after mountains of research and data showed those who are older are more at risk of dying from the virus. But a group of top medics, including … Read more

2021 London mayoral election: Shaun Bailey accuses Sadiq Khan of using BLM to divide UK communities

London Mayor hopeful Shaun Bailey accuses Sadiq Khan of using Black Lives Matter to ‘drive a wedge’ through UK communities and blames him for low number of black Met officers Tory candidate Mr Bailey launched a blistering attack on his Labour opponent  He blamed Mr Khan for low recruitment levels of black officers at The … Read more

Shaun Bailey accuses Sadiq Khan of using Black Lives Matter to drive a wedge through UK communities

London Mayor hopeful Shaun Bailey accuses Sadiq Khan of using Black Lives Matter to ‘drive a wedge’ through UK communities and blames him for low number of black Met officers Tory candidate Mr Bailey launched a blistering attack on his Labour opponent  He blamed Mr Khan for low recruitment levels of black officers at The … Read more

Vaccines Minister ‘very concerned’ at jab uptake in BAME communities

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says he is ‘very concerned’ about levels of vaccination in BAME communities and urges social media companies to do more to tackle anti-vax content Nadhim Zahawi said he is ‘very concerned’ at jab uptake in some communities He said Covid will spread like ‘wildfire’ in communities which do not get the … Read more

Fresh misery for flood-hit communities following Storm Christoph as blizzards sweep into Britain

Flood-hit communities swamped by a month’s worth of rain from Storm Christoph were warned to brace for fresh misery last night as a big freeze is set to grip the country today. Forecasters said -7C blizzard conditions would hit many areas as a blast of Arctic air swept towards Britain after last week’s storm that … Read more

Romanian gang stripped lead from rural churches leaving communities facing £2million repair bill

A prolific gang stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England causing utter devastation to village communities, a court was told today.  Police swooped on the Romanian men, who were all living in the West Midlands, after the targeted churches were left with repair bills collectively totalling more than £2million.  Among those counties … Read more

Meet the entrepreneur who believes that companies must ditch hard selling and put communities first

Linzi Boyd admits straight off that she has no qualifications and doesn’t hold any public relations or marketing degrees – let alone an MBA. But what the mother of two, originally from Leeds and now living in London, lacks in qualifications she makes of up for in experience. She’s a serial entrepreneur and brand expert … Read more