Even good ventilation removes only 10% of coronavirus particles from classrooms, study finds

Even with good ventilation, only a small fraction of the novel coronavirus may be filtered out from a room, a new study suggests. Researchers have been looking at how the virus spreads indoors and how aerosol particles, which are expelled though breathing and talking, flow through three settings: classrooms, elevators and supermarkets. In one classroom, ventilation … Read more

Lala Kent unfollows and removes photos of fiance Randall Emmett from her Instagram

Lala Kent stunned fans on Sunday when she erased every photo of her movie producer fiance Randall Emmett, 49, from her Instagram page. And in a since deleted Instagram Story post, the 29-year-old Vanderpump Rules star seemed to lament about her life being ‘a mess’ and that she planned to ‘begin a searching & fearless moral … Read more

Bristol council crew removes sculpture of protester from plinth where Edward Colston statue stood

Bristol council have removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester around 24 hours after it was secretly raised on a plinth where a memorial to Edward Colston once stood, before it was dumped in a nearby harbour by demonstrators last month. Pictures from the scene show workers at the site at around 5.20am … Read more

Amazon removes balcony barbecues from website after they’re linked to lockdown flat fires in London

Amazon has removed so-called ‘balcony barbecues’ from its website after they were linked to hundreds of devastating fires. The retail giant stopped the sale of the barbecues – which are specifically designed to be used on balconies – over concerns they are a safety hazard. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said a string of blazes at … Read more

Transport for London REMOVES Banksy’s sneezing rats artwork

Banksy’s latest artwork inside a London Underground train carriage, with messages about the spread of coronavirus, has been removed by Transport for London (TfL). The guerrilla artist, dressed in a high-vis jacket, boiler suit, goggles and face mask, painted a black rat coughing and sneezing green paint across the carriage’s window and walls to encourage people … Read more

Mum removes chewing gum from her little girl’s tangled hair in minutes using peanut butter

The game-changing ‘hack’ ALL parents need to know: Mum removes chewing gum from her little girl’s tangled hair in two minutes using peanut butter Marnie Pollock was at a loss when her daughter stuck chewing gum in her hair She was terrified she would have to shave the front of three-year-old Aria’s head Ms Pollock … Read more

Tina Fey removes four episodes of 30 Rock featuring blackface from streaming and syndication

Tina Fey along with her 30 Rock co-creator Robert Carlock and NBCUniversal have requested to remove four episodes of the comedy series because they feature the use of blackface. Vulture first reported that the episodes were being removed from Hulu and Amazon Prime, and they weren’t available to purchase on iTunes or Google Play. Fey addressed … Read more

Church removes gravestones of ‘blackface’ music hall stars

Church REMOVES ‘Chocolate Coloured C**n’ headstones of blackface dancer GH Elliott and dance hall co-star amid backlash over ‘deeply offensive’ language Headstones are of music hall singers who performed in blackface in the 1930s They were covered up last week at St Margaret’s church in Rottingdean, Brighton Gravestones belong to entertainer GH Elliott and fellow performer … Read more

Netflix removes blackface sketch with David Cross and Bob Odenkirk from their show W/Bob and David

Netflix removes episode from 2015 show W/Bob and David that features actor David Cross in blackface Netflix pulled an episode of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ 2015 comedy show on Tuesday due to a scene in which Cross plays a character in blackface  The sketch, called Know Your Rights, appeared in the third episode of W/Bob … Read more

Bristol music venue named after slave trader Edward Colston removes his name

A Bristol music venue named after Edward Colston has removed its signage from the building after the slave trader became a target of the Black Lives Matter protests.  Workmen were this morning pictured drilling out the lettering at Colston Hall ahead of a total rebrand this autumn to distance themselves from the ‘divisive’ figure. Bosses … Read more