Ex-health secretary Jeremy Hunt says ministers SHOULD publish Sage advice

Jeremy Hunt has ratcheted up the pressure on Downing Street to publish its scientific advice and put an end to Whitehall’s coronavirus blame game. A flurry of finger-pointing erupted yesterday as both ministers and experts shirked responsibility for blunders which have hamstrung the ability to fight the crisis. The decision to abandon contact tracing early … Read more

Hunt for girl, 16, extends to lake after two people arrested for her ‘kidnap’ are freed on bail 

The desperate hunt for a missing Hampshire 16-year-old today turned to searching waters of a country park lake. Police encouraged people to stay away from Staunton Country Park near Louise Smith’s home town of Havant, Hampshire, as officers conducted a search.  Police arrested a 29-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman on suspicion of kidnap but … Read more

Virgin Money starts hunt for a new chairman after city veteran Jim Pettigrew steps down

Virgin Money starts hunt for a new chairman as City veteran Jim Pettigrew steps down Pettigrew engineered a major transformation in 2018 when bought by CYBG plc The chartered accountant joined the company in September 2012 Last year the business started  to bring all of its services under the Virgin brand By Sara Scarlett For … Read more

From Little Fires Everywhere to The Hunt & A Streetcar Named Desire: The best on demand TV this week

AMAZON & NETFLIX  Little Fires Everywhere A classy adaptation of the best-selling novel about family secrets, motherhood and race, co-produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The first episode opens with the well-to-do but uptight Elena Richardson’s (Witherspoon) mansion ablaze: it’s arson – in fact, given that Elena was inside at the time, … Read more

Police hunt mother of two-day old baby girl whose body was found at a Suffolk recycling plant 

Police hunt mother of two-day old baby girl whose body was found among waste at a Suffolk recycling plant Officers called to recycling centre in Ipswich Road, Needham Market yesterday  Lifeless body of a baby girl was found – death is being treated as unexplained Suffolk Police have made direct appeal for the mother to come … Read more

Hunt for bargain shares boosts Hargreaves Lansdown

Hunt for bargain shares boosts Hargreaves: Investment platform received business worth £4bn in first four months of the year By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 Savers ploughed cash into their Hargreaves Lansdown accounts in the first four months of the year as … Read more

Jeremy Hunt slams Boris Johnson over care home crisis

Jeremy Hunt today condemned the failure to deploy coronavirus tests on patients discharged into care homes. The former health secretary said an ‘over-focus’ on the risk of a flu pandemic meant the government had not thought about the need for wide-scale screening. And he insisted checks on patients sent back to care homes was an … Read more

Scientists claim raptors did NOT hunt in packs, but like Komodo dragons or crocodiles

Velociraptors played a key role in the Blockbuster series ‘Jurassic Park’, but portrayed the vicious dinosaurs as working in groups to hunt large prey. However, paleontologists now argue that these prehistoric creatures behaved more like Komodo dragons or crocodiles, as their modern-day ancestors do not hunt in packs. New evidence suggests the dinosaurs may have … Read more

The hunt for the last Nazis: Unit trawls through millions of documents to track down war criminals

Although the Second World War ended nearly 75 years ago, the hunt for Nazi war criminals continues as a specialist unit battles to bring the last living perpetrators to justice. Jens Rommel heads up a small team at the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist [Nazi] Crimes dedicated to scouring the world for … Read more

Police hunt for prankster dresses in plague costume for daily walks

Police hunt prankster caught strolling around suburb dressed as 17th century plague doctor with long black cloak, hat and beaked mask A prankster in Norwich goes for walks dressed as a 17th century plague doctor Members of the community are worried the beaked costume will scare children  Norfolk Police are keen to identify him to … Read more