New rent hotspots revealed: London demand crashes as capital ‘loses its appeal’ but towns like Ipswich and Northampton see HUGE spike Demand for rented rooms fell by 40% in some parts of central London, according to Spareroom, as people no longer needed to be close to offices In contrast, renters flooded to places like Ipswich, … Read more
Coronavirus infection rates have tripled or more in 0.6 per cent of council wards across England, with a six-fold surge in one village in East Yorkshire mystifying its residents. South Cave, a village 13 miles (21km) west of Hull and home to 5,000 people, saw its infection rate surge from 123 cases per 100,000 people in … Read more
The Government’s quarantine hotels was plunged into chaos today as a hotel group chief claimed the sites could become Covid infection hotspots, while union bosses warned the new system will not be enough to stop variants from spreading Ahead of the new rules being introduced at midnight, Meher Nawab, chief executive of the London Hotel … Read more
Quarantine hotels could become Covid infection hotspots due to the type of ventilation systems they use, a hotel group chief has today claimed. Meher Nawab, chief executive of the London Hotel Group, warned airport hotels often rely on central air flow systems – in which air is passed through a centralised unit. He warned this … Read more
Tourist hotspots like the canals of Venice and the Louvre in Paris should be digitally replicated as a way to tackle overcrowding, a Swiss economist says. Bruno Frey, 79, a professor at the University of Basel, has written a book called Venedig ist uberall (Venice is Everywhere). In it, he says technologies like holograms, augmented reality … Read more
Pubs, restaurants and cafes have never been coronavirus hotspots, local public health directors claimed today. Despite hospitality venues facing hugely damaging restrictions, there has never been a ‘terribly big risk’ of someone catching the disease in them, they said. Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield, and Dr Richard Harling, his counterpart in Staffordshire, … Read more
Booking a holiday has become a minefield. Yet hopes are high that summer trips will be possible this year – and there are huge bargains to be had You could be forgiven for being confused, if not bemused. With the Government bringing in a ‘red list’ — where British tourists returning from 33 countries have … Read more
Lingering at coastal tourist ‘hotspots’ is putting injured whale sharks at a greater risk of boat strikes, a study of the larger, slow-moving filter-feeders has found. Researchers from York and the Maldives warned that wounded sharks stay in certain, favourable locations for three times longer than their uninjured counterparts. This means they not only miss … Read more
Start-ups should look to the North East, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Yorkshire as the next tech hotspots Regions are ‘levelling up’ their contribution to the tech industry, reports say They have hubs of activity in areas such as fintech, cyber security and AI Companies based in these locations include Sage, Atom Bank and KCOM By … Read more
Ministers ‘will split’ low-infection rural areas from nearby urban hotspots in tier review tomorrow to avoid massive Tory revolt as Sadiq Khan warns moving London into tier 3 will be ‘catastrophic for our businesses’ The Government will carry out its first formal review of the tier system tomorrow Ministers have raised prospect of ‘decoupling’ rural … Read more