Over 15million patients are currently waiting for treatment on the NHS’s ‘hidden waiting list’ – nearly four times higher than the official 3.9million, a new report claims. Freedom of Information requests to NHS trusts have put the total number of people yet to have their first hospital appointment after a GP referral at 15.3million. Data … Read more
Boris Johnson is today under mounting pressure to scrap the Government’s blanket travel quarantine policy as a group of 80 MPs urged the Prime Minister to back airport testing. The Future of Aviation Group, which includes 40 Tory MPs, has written to the PM urging him to end the current 14-day self-isolation requirement for people … Read more
Will Greece be next? Fears holiday hotspot could be added to UK quarantine list as cases surge It comes after scrambles home from Spain and France earlier this month Local restrictions imposed in Mykonos, Halkidiki, Poros, Paros and Antiparos Weekly cases have increased by 72.3 percent in the last week Infection rate of 13.4 per 100,000 … Read more
Picture the kind of sites that are granted protected status and you’ll probably think of somewhere grand or historically significant – York Minster or the house in which Shakespeare was born, for instance. Now there is a new addition to Historic England’s esteemed register of listed structures – a children’s slide on a council estate … Read more
Heritage on the slide! Children’s play area on 1970s council estate is among new list of places given a Grade II-listing There is new addition to Historic England’s esteemed register of listed structures The children’s slide on a council estate in Westminster was built in the 1970s It has now been added to the National … Read more
Flight prices from the UK to Portugal have gone up SIXFOLD just hours after the government announced it was bringing in an air bridge with the popular holiday destination. Average fare prices to Faro – the airport used by holidaymakers heading to the Algarve – rocketed from just £35 to £190 in the hours after … Read more
Flight prices from the UK to Portugal have gone up SIXFOLD just hours after the government announced it was bringing in an air bridge with the popular holiday destination. Average fare prices to Faro – the airport used by holidaymakers heading to the Algarve – rocketed from just £35 to £190 in the hours after … Read more
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has warned holidaymakers to ‘only travel if you content to unexpectedly quarantine’, after he himself was caught out, as Austria, Croatia and Trinidad were today added to Britain’s no-go list. Referencing his own experience, in which he was left facing a two week quarantine when his department suddenly added Spain to … Read more
Croatia, Austria and Trinidad & Tobago have been added to the Government’s quarantine travel list, Grant Shapps announced this afternoon, plunging thousands of Brits’ holiday plans into chaos. The Transport Secretary said spikes in infection in those countries meant they could no longer be treated as safe destinations. However, he said the latest data showed … Read more
67. If he has bought you any accessory or trinket, wear it. 68. Use the ashtray, don’t crush our cigarettes in a coffee cup. 69. Polish up on making introductions, learn to do them gracefully. 70. Don’t be too fussy. 71. Stick to your moral standards. 72. Don’t whine – girls who whine, stay on … Read more