The defiant owner of a beach bar that continued to serve ‘click and collect’ takeaway pints despite being handed a Covid notice has been fined £1,000. The Cleethorpes Beach Bar, nestled by the seafront in North East Lincolnshire, opened as lockdown measures eased on Monday. Its owner claimed that as it was running as a click and … Read more
The defiant owner of a beach bar that continued to serve ‘click and collect’ takeaway pints despite being handed a Covid notice has been fined £1,000. The Cleethorpes Beach Bar, nestled by the seafront in North East Lincolnshire, opened as lockdown measures eased on Monday. Its owner claimed that as it was running as a click and … Read more
North Korea continued its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions and funded them with £220m ($300m) stolen through cyber hacks, according to a confidential United Nations report. Kim Jong-un’s regime ‘produced fissile material, maintained nuclear facilities and upgraded its ballistic missile infrastructure’ while continuing to seek material and technology … Read more
North Korea continued its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions and funded them with £220m ($300m) stolen through cyber hacks, according to a confidential United Nations report. Kim Jong-un’s regime ‘produced fissile material, maintained nuclear facilities and upgraded its ballistic missile infrastructure’ while continuing to seek material and technology … Read more
The Stone Age period may have continued 20,000 years longer in some part of Africa than was previously thought, recent archaeological finds revealed. The new discoveries at sites in Senegal on the West coast of Africa, by Max Planck Institute researchers, are fuelling a rethink of the passage of human evolution. Previous discoveries suggested humans in … Read more
‘The virus stays with you for quite a while’: Prince Albert of Monaco, 62, reveals he suffered from fatigue for months after having only a ‘mild’ case of COVID-19 Prince Albert of Monaco, 62, said he experienced long-term COVID symptoms He was the first head of state to contract the virus back in March of … Read more
Boris Johnson insists he has ‘full confidence’ in Baroness Dido Harding despite continued failures of coronavirus test and trace regime she runs amid Tory calls for her to QUIT NHS Test and Trace service was supposed to be key to controlling the disease But the system last week hit a record low, prompting demands for … Read more
Coronavirus cases continued to fall after some lockdown measures were eased, a major study revealed today. Some 123 Britons were diagnosed with the infection out of a sample size of nearly 160,000 people between June 9 and July 8 — an incidence rate of 0.07 per cent. This was down by almost half from May, … Read more
In October last year I repaid £20,000 of my student loan. In January I paid off the rest — around £4,000. The Student Loans Company (SLC) confirmed the debt was paid and gave me a £24 refund. But a further £492 was taken from my salary until April. My employer, a local borough council, says … Read more
Surge of wealthy savers turn to platforms to spread their cash and risk since coronavirus pandemic hit in March The likes of Hargreaves Lansdown and Raisin saw a surge of interest in March That was in the immediate aftermath of dramatic stock market falls Since then platforms have continued to see interest from savers as … Read more