French couple pay thousands of pounds for a stripy Savannah cat only to find out they had been sold a baby TIGER instead Pair, of Le Havre, Normandy, paid 6,000 euros (£5,450) for animal upon delivery They failed to notice for several days it wasn’t a Savannah cat – cross between wild Serval and domestic … Read more
Covid vaccination jabs are expected to be on offer by the NHS from as early as next month, as five mass vaccination centres are planned to be in action by Christmas. Leaked provisional documents have revealed the plan for hundreds of NHS staff to be deployed in five sites across the country – injecting tens … Read more
Thousands of people living in East London are currently without a water supply. Residents took to Twitter this afternoon to say they had either low water pressure or no supply at all. Thames Water said on social media they are aware of issues in eight of East London’s 21 postcodes. They added: ‘Our engineers are … Read more
After a revered ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week from COVID-19, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, dignified funeral that would conform with public health guidelines under the current coronavirus lockdown. Followers of Rabbi Mordechai Leifer, 65, had been given special permission under Israel’s lockdown rules … Read more
One of the world’s largest shipping lines has brought in a $150 per container surcharge on cargo passing through the Port of Felixstowe as it continues to struggle with delays and staff shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. French transporter CMA CGM, which has been dealing with a cyber-attack since the end of September, introduced the … Read more
Twitter is DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are unable to access the website or app version of the social media platform Twitter is down across the world, leaving thousands unable to use the site The outage appeared around 9:30am ET and has hit more than 40,000 people The US, the UK and Japan … Read more
Cornish resort reveals it lost thousands in a scam run by an Instagram site that claimed to offer half-price holiday deals Landal Gwel an Mor resort said the scam was run by a site called everything_half This site, it says, used stolen credit cards to make bookings Firms listed on everything_half also included Hoseasons and … Read more
World-renowned surgeon who pioneered technique that saved Andy Murray’s tennis career stored body parts from thousands of patients over 25 years, leaked report claims Surgeon Derek McMinn was suspended from Edgbaston Hospital in Birmingham Dr McMinn allegedly kept the bones of at least 5,224 patients he operated on Company which runs hospital says they will … Read more
Thousands of ventilators bought to treat Covid-19 patients are sitting in warehouses due to a lack of demand, the spending watchdog has revealed. Ministers prioritised ‘speed over cost’, meaning they paid 50 per cent over the odds for foreign-supplied machines, the National Audit Office (NAO) found. In one case, 750 ventilators purchased at a cost of … Read more
Thousands of ventilators bought to treat Covid-19 patients are sitting in warehouses due to a lack of demand, the spending watchdog has revealed. Ministers prioritised ‘speed over cost’, meaning they paid 50 per cent over the odds for foreign-supplied machines, the National Audit Office (NAO) found. In one case, 750 ventilators purchased at a cost of … Read more