The rise in ‘pauper funerals’: Agony for bereaved as cost of cremations soars despite Covid crisis after two thirds of councils hike prices by up to 16% making average ceremony now £775 By Dan Sales For Mailonline Published: 08:18 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 08:32 BST, 9 July 2020 The costs of laying your … Read more
A controversial campaign rally held by President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last month likely contributed to a rise in the number of coronavirus cases there, a top local health official said on Wednesday. Tulsa has confirmed hundreds of new cases of COVID-19 over the past two days, said Dr. Bruce Dart, health director for … Read more
Burger King UK’s boss has warned that more than 50 of its 530 UK branches could shut, putting up to 1,600 jobs at risk following similar cuts at other chains such as Pret a Manger and Upper Crust. More than 12,000 job losses were announced at the start of July at various restaurants, shops and … Read more
Rishi Sunak admits jobs WILL be lost despite latest massive ‘mini-Budget’ bailout as he begs Britons to ‘relearn’ the habits of eating out and dismisses claims his ‘bonus’ for firms bring back furloughed staff is a £9bn gimmick By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 07:56 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 07:56 BST, … Read more
Victoria recorded 165 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday as Melbourne began the first day of a six-week lockdown. Thirty of the new cases were linked to known outbreaks – including 18 at nine public housing towers – and the source of the rest was being investigated. The figure was Victoria’s second worst after it recorded … Read more
The City of Seattle held a segregated training session for white staffers last month in which they instructed workers on how to ‘undo their whiteness’ and affirm their ‘complicity in racism’, reports suggest. Titled ‘Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness’, the training session was reportedly held by the Office of Civil Rights on June 12, … Read more
The mother of a British tech CEO who was filmed hurling vicious racist abuse at an Asian family says she is ‘totally appalled’ by his behaviour as MailOnline can reveal his own sister-in-law is mixed race. Linda Lofthouse, from rural Northumberland, spoke of the devastating impact his actions had had on the family as his … Read more
Glee star Naya Rivera, 33, is missing and presumed dead after her four-year-old son was found alone in a boat on Lake Piru and told cops ‘they were swimming but she didn’t get back on board’ By Matthew Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 06:24 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 06:38 BST, 9 July 2020 Actress … Read more
Japanese girl, three, starves to death after her mother left her alone for eight days so she could visit her boyfriend 600 miles away Saki Kakehashi, 24, from Tokyo, told police she thought ‘it would be alright’ She left her daughter Noa at their apartment and went to Kagoshima Prefecture Kakehashi had gone to visit … Read more
Britain concreted over green fields equivalent to the size of Dorset in the past 25 years, satellite analysis shows Britain concreted over green fields equivalent to Dorset in the past 25 years There was a significant reduction in land for farming crops in East Anglia The analysis was made by the UK Centre of Ecology … Read more