For anyone who’s paid attention to Britain’s South Asian community and its response to the Covid crisis, Thursday’s dramatic announcement of new restrictions in northern England will have come as no surprise. The areas affected, including Blackburn, Oldham, Bradford and Manchester, have large populations with roots in the Indian subcontinent. And while West Yorkshire Tory … Read more
Buy now, pay later has exploded onto the payment scene in recent years, allowing shoppers to purchase items without paying for them right away, technically putting many into debt. However, almost a third of people say they don’t consider delayed payments to be debt, new research shows. Jessica Exton, behavioural scientist at ING – which … Read more
Mother reveals she can’t forgive her husband for ‘cheating’ after he sent flirty messages to a colleague when they were going through a bad patch – but do YOU agree he’s been unfaithful? Anonymous UK woman said the message from a female colleague ‘popped up’ She explained how the texts were ‘just flirty’ and ‘nothing … Read more
Britain today announced 233 more Covid-19 deaths as the outbreak that threw the UK into chaos when it spiralled out of control in March continues to fade. Department of Health figures say the official final number of victims is now 41,969 — but separate data shows the actual number of fatalities is in the region … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus death toll today jumped by 286, with Northern Ireland having now gone three days in-a-row without recording a single fatality as the outbreak continues to fade. Department of Health figures show 277 of the Covid-19 victims were from England, while the other nine were in Wales. No laboratory-confirmed deaths were recorded in Scotland … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus death toll today jumped by 145, with Northern Ireland having now gone three days in-a-row without recording a single fatality as the outbreak continues to fade. Department of Health bosses have yet to post the final daily figure. The preliminary toll is calculated by adding up all of the updates provided by each … Read more
The UK has announced a preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 106, taking the official count to 38,482. Department of Health officials – who release the UK’s final coronavirus count every afternoon – have yet to update the official figures. This preliminary toll is calculated by adding up the individual tallies of each of the … Read more
Ever since Chancellor Rishi Sunak turned on the spending taps to save Britain’s businesses amid the lockdown, there have been grumblings in the Tory Party about the gigantic bill that will need paying after the crisis. One can therefore only imagine how they’ll react on discovering that the party’s own coffers could also soon run … Read more
The US drug epidemic has likely claimed the lives of twice as many Americans as currently estimated, new research suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there were 63,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. But that estimate doesn’t include non-overdose deaths that have drugs at their root, like those from HIV, … Read more