Rishi Sunak is STILL wearing face mask that ‘acts like a jet’ to SPREAD Covid-19

Rishi Sunak was pictured again today wearing a face mask that scientists say ‘acts like a jet’ to spread Covid-19 — despite being ridiculed for using the same covering yesterday. The Chancellor — seemingly oblivious to the concerns of top scientists who called him out for his choice of mask — wore the grey covering … Read more

Gas-spraying attacker leaves 14 Selfridges staff and shoppers needing treatment

Gas-spraying attacker leaves 14 Selfridges staff and 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 … 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

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

Is Britain’s coronavirus outbreak GROWING? Symptom-tracking app shows daily cases doubled in a week

Britain’s coronavirus outbreak may be growing following a spike in the number of people with symptoms over the past week, data suggests.    King’s College London‘s COVID Symptom Tracker app estimates 2,100 people are catching the virus in the community every day — up from 1,400 last week.  The increase is too small to say definitively that the … Read more

Journalist Hilary Freeman says phobia of face masks causes her to ‘feel dizzy and hyperventilate’

A woman has revealed how a phobia of face masks which causes her to ‘panic and hyperventilate’ means it feels like the ‘lockdown is just beginning’.  Young adult novelist Hilary Freeman from North London, appeared on This Morning today where she revealed she has severe claustrophobia, which is triggered by wearing a face covering, and causes her to … Read more