The family of Tiger Woods fear he may become addicted to painkillers again during recovery from his horrific car crash which shattered his right leg and ankle. The golfer, 45, flipped his loaned Genesis GV80 SUV in Los Angeles on Tuesday and he has undergone extensive surgery under general anesthetic at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The 15-time … Read more
Moderna has become the first vaccine maker to develop a jab that targets the South African coronavirus variant. The Boston-based biotech has already shipped the raw materials to the US National Institutes of Health, which helped the firm study its first jab, to start human trials. Dr Anthony Fauci, the US’ top Covid expert, and his … Read more
Ministers today insisted their GCSE and A-Level exam replacement plan is the ‘best we can do’ despite claims an experts has quit warning of an even more dire outcome than last year’s hated algorithm. Schools minister Nick Gibb confirmed that teachers will have control over the marks their pupils get, but insisting there will be ‘protective … Read more
The pace of France’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is too slow to prevent new lockdown measures being needed to halt a third wave of hospitalisations, top scientists say. Experts at the prestigious Institut Pasteur say the current pace of around 100,000 jabs a day is ‘insufficient’ to rein in the effects of the highly contagious UK … Read more
The pace of France’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is too slow to prevent new lockdown measures being needed to halt a third wave of hospitalisations, top scientists say. Experts at the prestigious Institut Pasteur say the current pace of around 100,000 jabs a day is ‘insufficient’ to rein in the effects of the highly contagious UK … Read more
Balmy Britain as hot as Barcelona: 55F spring sun will get lockdown-weary Britons into the Great Outdoors again today – with warm weather to continue into weekend England and Wales are enjoying temperatures on a par with Malaga and Barcelona this week Suffolk got up to 65.1F (18.4C) yesterday which was even above the average … Read more
Balmy Britain as hot as Barcelona: 55F spring sun will get lockdown-weary Britons into the Great Outdoors again today – with warm weather to continue into weekend England and Wales are enjoying temperatures on a par with Malaga and Barcelona this week Suffolk got up to 65.1F (18.4C) yesterday which was even above the average … Read more
Princess Latifa al Maktoum, the kidnapped daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed, has asked British police to re-investigate the snatching of her older sister from a Cambridge street in a secret letter sent from captivity in Dubai. Latifa has begged Cambridgeshire Police to start a new probe claiming it could help free Princess Shamsa, now 38, … Read more
Five police officers face manslaughter probe over death of suspect, 24, ‘who was restrained and carried to a van after being held when he was discharged from hospital’ Five Thames Valley police face manslaughter probe over death of suspect Brian Ringrose, 24, was taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital after arrest The IOPC police watchdog said … Read more
Primark will announce a sales hit of £1.1 billion over the last six months amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the retailer’s parent company Associated British Foods. Bosses added they expect to lose sales of £480 million from store closures in the second half of its financial year as lockdown continues. However, in a more … Read more