Massive explosion rocks Beirut destroying buildings and ‘leaving people covered in blood and broken glass’ The country’s health minster said the blast has left many injured and inflicted severe damage on the city Middle Eastern country’s media carried images of people trapped under rubble Security sources told Reuters the blast occurred in the port area … Read more
Matt Hancock got in a muddle on live radio today about whether 4.5million people in the newly locked-down north-west can visit friends outside the area saying: ‘I’ll have to come back to you on that’. The Health Secretary was speaking to BBC Radio Manchester and appeared so flustered by the question host Becky Want then told … Read more
Matt Hancock got in a muddle on live radio today about whether 4.5million people in the newly locked-down north-west can visit friends outside the area saying: ‘I’ll have to come back to you on that’. The Health Secretary was speaking to BBC Radio Manchester and appeared so flustered by the question host Becky Want then told … Read more
Why have WE been locked down? Residents of Wigan – on the edge of northern lockdown area and with relatively few cases – say they have been unfairly penalised Boris Johnson today warned that coronavirus case numbers are ‘creeping up’ Partial lockdown reimposed on Greater Manchester and parts of other counties Wigan is on edge … Read more
Luton has been made an ‘area of intervention’ after seeing a spike in coronavirus cases – meaning long-awaited plans to open indoor gyms and leisure centres for locked-down Britons this weekend have been put on hold. The council has set up an emergency testing centre at a primary school and is telling locals to stay home … Read more
Elon Musk is slowly releasing details about his secret brain chip startup Neuralink, but he recently shared the technology could help cure addiction and depression. The billionaire shared the news on Twitter following a user asking if the implant could ‘re-train part of the brain’ linked to the ailments. ‘For sure. This is both great … Read more
Farmers have proposed a radical plan to return an area the size of Dorset to nature and reintroduce beavers, lynxes and pelicans to the British countryside. WildEast aims to dedicate some 250,000 hectares of East Anglia — Britain’s most intensely farmed region — to wildlife over the next five decades. The charity — which advocates … Read more
California condors disappeared from Sequioa National Park 50 years ago, never to be seen again – until now. Park officials announced the return of the majestic scavenger after spotting nearly a dozen in the area on May 28. The bird has been roaming North America for thousands of years, but is now critically endangered due … Read more
Native Americans reached Polynesia 800 years ago by raft and interbred with local islanders — centuries before European explorers arrived in the Pacific. Researchers from the US and Mexico used large-scale genetic analyses to show that modern-day Polynesian populations contain traces of Native American DNA. Statistical analysis revealed that prehistoric Polynesian populations first met and … Read more
An Essex town best known for previously holding the world darts championships, its close location to Lakeside Shopping Centre and its freight terminal has unveiled a new name in a bid to try and get visitors. Purfleet in South West Essex has changed its name to Purfleet-on-Thames after two years of lobbying from local campaigners. … Read more