Now that’s a lockdown project! Father turns mobility scooter into remote-controlled Eddie Stobart truck complete with trailer for his impressed three-year-old son Dad turned mobility scooter into an Eddie Stobart truck for three-year-old son Dan Hull, 45, spent two years working on creating the remote-controlled vehicle The truck is superhero themed and was built using … Read more
School closures ‘could undo years of social mobility’ as privately educated pupils are almost twice as likely to have online lessons than state school children Just 41 per cent of deprived children at state schools attended online classes Researchers from the IFS and UCL surveyed 4,157 parents and children up to 15 IFS fears an … Read more
School closures ‘could undo years of social mobility’ as privately educated pupils are almost twice as likely to have online lessons than state school children Just 41 per cent of deprived children at state schools attended online classes Researchers from the IFS and UCL surveyed 4,157 parents and children up to 15 IFS fears an … Read more
New mobility data shows that Britons are flocking to parks to socialise in the scorching weather as lockdown restrictions are eased. More Britons are socialising in parks and other public spaces now than across the whole of lockdown, new mobility data shows. There has been an 136% increase in the amount of people gathering in parks … Read more
Driving A FENCE! Mobility scooter user pootles along road with three wooden panels crammed into back of buggy The video has taken internet by storm and has been viewed over 50,000 times The clip sees man drive across two main roads with three 6ft by 6ft fence panels It was taken by Tyrone Mullan, 30, … Read more
A new analysis of Twitter indicates that social distancing measure are having an effect in slowing the spread of coronavirus in the US Since social distancing began on March 16, mobility among Americans has been cut by almost half of what it was. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that the biggest drop in geo-tagged … Read more
New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged rat brain Experts transplanted reprogrammed stem cells into the cerebral cortex of rats They found that the new cells recreate lost nerve connections in the brain In six months, the procedure had … Read more
Data generated from searches on Apple Maps is released to help authorities monitor whether people are adhering to lockdown rules or still traveling The data is now publicly accessible via Apple’s database Information uses navigation requests entered into Apple Maps Apple says the data is anonymized and not associated with an Apple ID The company … Read more