The Voice: Blake Shelton scores four-chair singer Avery Roberson as blind auditions continue

Blake Shelton beat all of his fellow coaches to win a shy country singer for his team as the blind auditions continued on Monday’s episode of The Voice. Avery Roberson, a 20-year-old musician from Rutherdforton, North Carolina, scored a four-chair turn from the coaches for his take on Tim McGraw’s If You’re Reading This. The … Read more

Balance transfer credit cards: Interest-free deals continue to increase

Balance transfer bounce back continues: Banks boost 0% terms after credit card availability hit an all-time low There are now 59 balance transfer deals and 56 purchase deals available  Although below pre-pandemic levels these are more than were around in 2020  Banks have increased their interest-free term lengths since the start of the year This … Read more

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Deals and flotations continue to flow

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Broker Finncap ‘in a good moment’ as flotations and deals continue to flow By John Harrington, Proactive Investors For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 14:44 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 14:44 GMT, 5 March 2021 In a week when announcements of forthcoming flotations continued to flow, broker FinnCap revealed it has been trading materially … Read more

Covid cases continue to drop in England but speed of decline has SLOWED

Covid cases are continuing to drop in England — but the speed of decline has slowed, another set of official data revealed today. NHS Test and Trace data showed 68,738 people tested positive for Covid in England between February 18 and 24, an 18.7 per cent decrease compared to the previous week. But the fall … Read more

Unvaccinated officers DO NOT want to continue policing coronavirus restrictions, union chief says 

Ken Marsh (pictured), the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said his members no longer want to regulate the law Unvaccinated officers do not want to continue policing coronavirus restrictions in the final month before restrictions are eased, according to the union chief. Ken Marsh, the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said on Sunday … Read more

Plan to continue rollout of Covid vaccine by age rather than prioritising key workers ‘makes sense’

Plans to continue the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine by age rather than prioritising frontline workers ‘makes sense’, a former Government scientific adviser said today. Professor Sir Mark Walport, former chief scientific adviser to the Government, insisted the strategy maximised the number of vaccines on a basis of the most vulnerable.  It comes as fury erupted on … Read more

UK weather: Warm conditions to continue into the weekend with 55F highs

Balmy Britain as hot as Barcelona: 55F spring sun will get lockdown-weary Britons into the Great Outdoors again today – with warm weather to continue into weekend England and Wales are enjoying temperatures on a par with Malaga and Barcelona this week  Suffolk got up to 65.1F (18.4C) yesterday which was even above the average … Read more

CBI BOSS: Government must continue paying for free Covid tests for firms

Workplace testing will need to become commonplace and the Government must continue paying for free Covid kits for companies, says CBI BOSS By Karan Bilimoria For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 Lord Bilimoria is president of the CBI and the founder of Cobra … Read more

So You Think You Can Dance will continue to remain on hiatus and it’s unclear if it will return

So You Think You Can Dance will continue to remain on hiatus … and it’s unclear if it will return amid COVID-19 pandemic By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 06:51 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 06:51 GMT, 17 February 2021 So You Think You Can Dance might not return to the air. According to a report … Read more

Covid infections continue to plunge as UK records another 10,972 cases

Britain has recorded a further 10,972 Covid cases today – down 31 per cent on last Sunday. In a positive sign for Boris Johnson‘s ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown, today’s daily case load is almost a third smaller than the 15,845 reported this time last week. Today’s death toll of 258 has also decreased week-on-week, with the figure standing … Read more