An ambulance on an emergency call was today caught in an Extinction Rebellion traffic jam as protesters blocked Parliament in London and tried to storm Cardiff’s new BBC building. Footage shows the response vehicle stuck with its lights flashing at a roundabout on Millbank, Westminster, with no way of getting through. Demonstrators had blocked off … Read more
The BBC‘s new Director-General has told staff if they want to be opinionated columnists or a partisan campaigners on social media they ‘should not be working at the BBC’. Tim Davie, who took over this week, said the broadcaster needed to ‘urgently champion and recommit to impartiality’. He insisted his drive was ‘about being free … Read more
A young Iranian wrestling champion has been sentenced to death in Iran for the murder of a public sector worker two years ago, a state television-linked news agency said Thursday. It was first reported that Navid Afkari’s sentence was due to taking part in protests against the Iranian regime in 2018. The Young Journalists Club (YJC) … Read more
Furious Tesco shoppers say supermarket chain is rounding up their bills to nearest pound for charity donation without asking them Shopper Jodie Holtom and her partner Jamie were shopping in a local Tesco She and her partner purchased the same product from the store’s pharmacy Her partner was charged 80p more after the bill was … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX hit another milestone Thursday by completing a nearly 500-foot ‘hop’ of a second Starship prototype. Dubbed SN6, the massive rocket took to the skies above the firm’s testing facility in Boca Chia, Texas at 1:48pm ET following a successful liftoff of its predecessor SN5 earlier this month. SN6 was shaking on the … Read more
Robert Pattinson has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, forcing filming on The Batman to be halted. Sources told Vanity Fair that the actor, 34, has contracted the deadly virus just days after production resumed on the big-budget film. It comes after MailOnline revealed that filming of the new Batman film has been halted after a crew member … Read more
Ten per cent more of Britain’s sickest coronavirus patients are surviving than at the start of the pandemic. Analysis of NHS records shows that 44 per cent of intensive care admissions were dying of the virus when the pandemic first started to spiral out of control in March. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research … Read more
People who are vitamin D deficient are nearly 60 percent more likely to test positive for coronavirus, a new study finds. Vitamin D plays an important role in the immune system, boosting the health of T cells and macrophages, which fight infection. Previous studies have noted a link between low vitamin D levels and higher … Read more
Dido Harding has set a 75-mile limit on appointments for test and trace Test and trace boss Dido Harding has installed a 75-mile limit on travelling to appointments after it was revealed some patients were being asked to drive almost 300 miles. It comes as the number of close contacts of people who tested positive … Read more
One Amazon reviewer was left very disappointed by a new novel that’s set partly in the year 2020 — because the author makes no mention of the coronavirus pandemic. US-based Amazon user Wendy W. Legge left the dissatisfied two-star review for the book Honeysuckle Season by Mary Ellen Taylor, which came out this month. Legge complained that … Read more