Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions still need to decrease tenfold to avoid a climate emergency, scientists warn, despite a global fall in 2020 due to Covid-19. An international team of experts has performed a ‘global stocktake’ of humanity’s progress towards the Paris Agreement – which aims to keep the global average temperature rise to well below … Read more
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, sid today lockdown cannot be lifted before summer because coronavirus infections need to plunge tenfold Lockdown cannot be lifted before summer because coronavirus infections need to plunge tenfold and all over-50s must receive both vaccine doses, NHS bosses warned in a gloomy letter to the Prime Minister today. … Read more
Angela Merkel warns Germany that they must ‘stop this BRITISH virus’ or the country ‘will see TEN TIMES as many Covid-19 cases by Easter’ The Chancellor said she expects Germany’s current lockdown to last until April Merkel said she needs up to 10 weeks to control the ‘British virus’ in the country Donald Trump has … Read more
Marriage tax perk should be increased TEN-FOLD to £2,500 a year to reward stay-at-home spouses, think-tank says Married people earning under £12,500 can pass on part of allowance to spouse Think tank Onward want to increased this threshold to cover whole £12,500 of the Personal Allowance Change would ‘recognise families rather than just individuals in the … Read more
Britain’s delayed response to the coronavirus in March saw the epidemic accelerate faster then some European nations that locked down earlier, a study has found. A mathematical paper by Professor Christopher Dye of the University of Oxford looked at 30 nations and assessed their outbreaks based on Covid deaths. In the data, the researchers found … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Anne Robinson proves she’s not the Weakest Link in property profit game after selling £500,000 South Kensington three-bed home for £5million By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:01 GMT, 8 November 2020 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 8 November 2020 Anne Robinson is certainly … Read more
Being a fast mover in the battle to beat Covid has paid off for Novacyt, a biotechnology tiddler listed on AIM that few retail investors had heard of at the start of the year. Things have changed dramatically since then, after the French group’s Southampton-based subsidiary, Primerdesign, developed one of the world’s first coronavirus tests … Read more