The near-Earth object that was thought to smash into our planet in 2068 has been deemed no longer a threat for at least the next 100 years. NASA made the announcement after asteroid Apophis passed by Earth earlier this month, allowing the American space agency to estimate the space rock’s orbit around the sun. Scientists … Read more
Missing British girl, 14, is found safe and well after she vanished outside her school in Majorca Taya O’Loughlin, 14, has been found safe and well after disappearing on Tuesday The teenager was last seen outside a secondary school in Palma earlier this week Reports said she was last seen with a Spanish girl who … Read more
Why the latest gloom about holidays abroad? The Government said on Monday that anyone trying to leave the UK ‘without a reasonable excuse’ will be fined £5,000. That sounds severe. But isn’t it already illegal to leave the country? Yes, but the current Stay at Home law ends on March 29 so new legislation is … Read more
Authority is so absent from our streets that bad people are worryingly unafraid, so the rest of us have to be afraid instead If you really wanted to make women safer on the streets of this country’s cities, after dark or during the day, there is a very simple, logical thing that you would do. We … Read more
EU leaders were today forced to make a humiliating climbdown after Europe’s medical experts ruled that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not linked to blood clots. ‘This is a safe and effective vaccine,’ said Emer Cooke, the chief of the European Medicines Agency. ‘When you vaccinate millions of people, it’s inevitable that rare or serious instances … Read more
A newly-released app uses police data to show users where recent crimes have happened – so they can pick safe routes to walk home. WalkSafe pins stabbings, muggings and burglaries on a map to warn pedestrians. There have been more than 200,000 downloads of the free safety app in five days – as focus has … Read more
This is as dystopian a vision of the future as any British Prime Minister has offered the public since the Cold War. In Boris Johnson’s dark new world of international relations, the 2020s will see the breaking down of rules-based world order, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and, more than likely, a successful … Read more
MPs from all parties were today pleading with Britons to keep taking AstraZeneca jabs amid fury that the EU’s ‘Brexit sulk’ will fuel anti-vax propaganda. Politicians, medics and scientists have launched a concerted effort to reassure the public about the safety of the Oxford vaccine after a swathe of European countries suspended its use over unproven … Read more
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon today mounted a staunch defence of the AstraZeneca vaccine after the Netherlands and Ireland became the latest EU states to pause its use. The PM insisted the jabs are ‘both safe and effective’ as the First Minister urged Britons to keep coming forward, pointing to ‘significant and growing evidence of … Read more
Priti Patel has said that ‘every woman should feel safe to walk on our streets’ as dozens shared their harrowing personal stories with #saraheverard and #TooManyMen as Reclaim These Streets marches were announced. The Home Secretary issued a statement earlier today following the disappearance of marketing manager Sarah Everard, 33, who went missing on a … Read more