Coronavirus UK: Pharmacists will be able to give out vaccines

Pharmacists will be able to give out Covid-19 jabs to speed up a nation-wide roll out, Matt Hancock has revealed.  The Health Secretary claimed pharmacists in Britain would play a ‘massive role’ when Number 10 has a coronavirus vaccination programme. High street pharmacies are already able to give out jabs for the flu, chickenpox, HPV, … Read more

Jennifer Lopez’s bid to become New York Mets owner may bring team more glamour say sports insiders

Jennifer Lopez’s bid to become owner of New York Mets could bring more glamour to team according to sports insiders: ‘MLB needs that right now’ By Justin Enriquez For Dailymail.com Published: 15:48 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 15:48 BST, 16 July 2020 The New York Mets baseball team has always lived in the shadow … Read more

Gas-spraying attacker leaves nine Selfridges shoppers needing treatment

Gas-spraying attacker leaves nine Selfridges shoppers needing treatment when he sprays CS-style aerosol at victim on shop floor Shoppers treated at the scene for effects of unknown substance released today  Man, in his 20s, was detained by security and arrested on suspicion of affray Metropolitan Police said gas caused similar effects to riot control agent … Read more

London sees EIGHTH murder in two weeks

A young man has been shot dead in north London this morning in yet another murder to hit the Capital’s streets in recent days.  Police found the victim, thought to be in his 20s, in Harlesden, Brent at 3am this morning.  They gave him first aid until the arrival of the London Ambulance Service but he was … Read more

Before-and-after photos via Amos Chapple show how Budapest has been rebuilt after WWII devastation 

Astonishing before-and-after pictures show how Budapest has been rebuilt 75 years after World War II devastation Soviet and Romanian troops laid siege to Budapest for 50 days from Boxing Day 1944 to February 13, 1945 The fighting was extremely heavy – and around 38,000 civilians in the city lost their lives These astonishing before-and-after photographs … Read more

Londoners in 1820 LESS artificial light than people living in Pompeii

Romans living in Pompeii in 79AD had more artificial light and were therefore probably happier than London‘s residents in the early 19th-century, a study claims.  Both groups lived before the Industrial Revolution, and the only nighttime non-natural light in homes came from candles.  Researchers say access to more artificial light at night would have allowed … Read more