Houses ripped up from their foundations, boats washed miles inland, streets buried in rubble and smoke rising from electrical fires – these were the other-worldly scenes beamed around the world almost 10 years ago after Japan was hit by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. It was 2.46pm local time on March 11, 2011, … Read more
Fewer than 10 Covid-19 patients aged over 80 are being sent to intensive care units each day thanks to the rollout of Britain’s vaccine programme, Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed last night. At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Hancock hailed ‘exciting’ data showing that just one shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer jab … Read more
More than half of Britain’s police stations have closed in the past ten years, a shocking Mail investigation reveals today. At least 667 stations with front counters allowing the public to talk to officers have been shut down since 2010 in drastic cost-cutting measures. Many more have closed temporarily during the Covid pandemic, prompting fears … Read more
Ten miles of the M6 are to be turned into a smart motorway with no hard shoulder and emergency refuges up to 1.5 miles apart – contravening safety guidance from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Following a review last March, Mr Shapps said the refuges – where vehicles can pull in during an accident or breakdown – … Read more
In a degrading spectacle put on for tourists, Nenuah the orangutan was one of many apes who, 16 years ago, was forced put on boxing gloves and fight each other. But this weekend she was released into the wild as one of ten of the endangered great apes being allowed their freedom in the forests of Borneo. … Read more
In a degrading spectacle put on for tourists, Nenuah the orangutan was one of many apes who, 16 years ago, was forced put on boxing gloves and fight each other. But this weekend she was released into the wild as one of ten of the endangered great apes being allowed their freedom in the forests of Borneo. … Read more
It’s the great UK holiday scramble! Demand ‘ten times higher than 2019’ and prices up by as much as 50% as vaccinated older people lead the rush The most popular British destinations are reportedly already full for August Simply Sea Views said Padstow, Cornwall, is already 99% booked for the season Holidaymakers outbidding and ‘gazumping’ … Read more
The weather is warming up, spring is in the air and some 15million Britons have now been vaccinated against coronavirus. Yes, we are all still in lockdown but the exit route is becoming clearer by the day and businesses up and down the country are feeling more hopeful than they have in months. In many cases, … Read more
Pfizer has not delivered ten million vaccine jabs to the EU that were due in December in latest blow to the bloc following AstraZeneca row with UK Pfizer has not delivered 10 million vaccine doses to the EU due back in December So far the EU has received around 28 million two-dose vaccines from Pfizer … Read more
NHS waiting lists could hit a record ten million by April – with one in six people in England needing treatment, a report warns. Researchers claim that the pandemic turned the NHS into the ‘National Covid Service’, with six million fewer referrals in 2020 than 2019. Now health workers are braced for a surge from … Read more