Thousands of hard-up pensioners face food and fuel poverty as their free TV licences are scrapped from today, campaigners warn More than 3million UK households will be asked to pay the £157.50 annual fee 500k pensioners could qualify for a free licence but are unaware, study finds They could be forced to choose between having … Read more
Thousands of hard-up pensioners face food and fuel poverty as their free TV licences are scrapped from today, campaigners warn More than 3million UK households will be asked to pay the £157.50 annual fee 500k pensioners could qualify for a free licence but are unaware, study finds They could be forced to choose between having … Read more
Ken McMeikan knows how to get his point across to politicians. While running high street chain Greggs in 2012, he made George Osborne scrap his plans for a ‘pasty tax’ on hot takeaway goods by climbing a stepladder outside Downing Street dressed as a baker and blasting his opposition to the policy through a megaphone. … Read more
First stop Venus! NASA proposes using the planet to slingshot the first crewed Mars mission to save fuel and time NASA is eyeing the 2030s for the first crewed mission to Mars Now, scientist propose astronauts do a fly by of Venus along the way Astronauts could use Venus’s gravity to slingshot the craft towards … Read more
The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, but experts fear Independence Day celebrations will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging outbreak. Johns Hopkins University, which tallies confirmed cases, counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections in the U.S. on Saturday. The new count came after … Read more
The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, but experts fear Independence Day celebrations will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging outbreak. Johns Hopkins University, which tallies confirmed cases, counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections in the U.S. on Saturday. The new count came after … Read more
Cheap travel to help fuel fast recovery at Ryanair: Boss predicts passenger numbers will return to pre-crisis levels by next summer By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 2 July 2020 Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary described the coronavirus crisis as the worst the airline industry … Read more
GPS tracking of seven million US college students who traveled for spring break this year ahead of lockdowns suggests they may have brought coronavirus home with them, and spread it in their communities. It supports public health experts suspicions that spring break helped to fuel the virus’s spread in March, when the pandemic was beginning … Read more
Cold air in slaughterhouses and meat-packing factories could be behind coronavirus outbreaks, suggesting winter could bring a second wave of Covid-19. Scientists say cramped and poorly-ventilated working conditions in the factories — the centre of fresh outbreaks in the UK and Germany — could be to blame because they make social distancing difficult. But experts … Read more
Meatpacking plants across the US have become notorious hotspots for coronavirus, and the cold air inside them may be fanning the flames of the virus’s spread. Thousands of workers at meat processing facilities have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least 20 have died. The same cold temperatures and forceful ventilation that help to kill … Read more