At least seven people are dead including a 12-year-old boy and his grandmother as 200 wildfires continue to rage across California, Oregon and Washington after already decimating an area the same size as Connecticut. The youngster and his grandmother died in a wildfire burning near the Santiam Valley community of Lyons, about 50 miles south … Read more
Supermarket giant Morrisons is poised to slash the price of hundreds of products as the industry braces for a major price war this autumn. The chain will tomorrow cut prices by an average of 23 per cent on 400 products, including fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry, bread, breakfast cereal, rice, toilet rolls and cleaning products. … Read more
Chilly Britons are lighting fires and pulling on their woolly socks as the nation shivers on the coldest late August bank holiday Monday for 50 years. Forecasters are predicting temperatures in some areas will reach just 11C (52F) today – a stark contrast to the same day last year when the mercury hit a record-breaking … Read more
The Ellen DeGeneres Show has fired three top producers in the wake of claims of on-set sexual misconduct and workplace bullying. Executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman have all been ousted from the popular talk show following accusations leveled against them by current and former staffers, according to Variety. … Read more
The Ellen DeGeneres Show has fired three top producers in the wake of claims of on-set sexual misconduct and workplace bullying. Executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman have all been ousted from the popular talk show following accusations leveled against them by current and former staffers, according to Variety. … Read more
A preponderance of evidence proves that wearing a mask significantly reduces the chances of spreading COVID-19. But many Americans still refuse to don face coverings in public, as some believe they are ineffective or uncomfortable and others think they can cause carbon dioxide poisoning – while some people are just plain lazy. Enter YouTuber Allen … Read more
Soon after lockdown, as economic output plunged in Britain and the rest of the world, an economist friend told me he refused to buy into parallels with the Great Depression and other historic disasters. His argument was that Britain and the other Western democracies had learned from the past and the unprecedented fiscal and monetary … Read more
Lachlan Murdoch appears to have fired back at younger brother James in a memo to Fox staff Thursday in which he praised the network’s news coverage. James, 47, quit the board of News Corp at the end of last month blaming ‘disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets’. On Thursday Lachlan, 48, who … Read more
Pimlico Plumbers tycoon Charlie Mullins FIRES staff who refused to return to work from furlough and hits out at people ‘milking’ the system 30 staff lost their jobs when Pimlico ended its use of the furlough scheme Pimlico Plumbers is one of the UK’s biggest independent t plumbing firms Charlie Mullins says many on furlough … Read more
Pimlico Plumbers tycoon Charlie Mullins FIRES staff who refused to return to work from furlough and hits out at people ‘milking’ the system 30 staff lost their jobs when Pimlico ended its use of the furlough scheme Pimlico Plumbers is one of the UK’s biggest independent t plumbing firms Charlie Mullins says many on furlough … Read more