Treasury savages ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’ plans for a £350m Essex HQ to house new body replacing Public Health England The National Institute for Health Protection has replaced Public Health England Matt Hancock has tabled plans to relocate the NIHP’s headquarters to Essex Treasury insiders have criticised the plans, calling them ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’ … Read more
Boris Johnson has joined forces with senior civil servants to resist moves by No10 adviser Dominic Cummings to shift them to a new suite of West Wing-style offices in Whitehall. According to senior Government sources, the Prime Minister has spent six months objecting to Mr Cummings’s attempt to move him out of the ramshackle No10 … Read more
Holly Willoughby is allegedly planning to leave her role on This Morning, after 11 years of presenting the show alongside Phillip Schofield. The TV presenter, 39, is said to be seeking other opportunities on prime time TV after setting up her own management company, Roxy Management, earlier this year, a report from The Sun claimed … Read more
She’s due to give birth to her first child with fiancé Orlando Bloom any day now. And on Saturday, Katy Perry told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph how she has ‘relished’ spending the last few months in lockdown at her Los Angeles home, ahead of her daughter’s birth. The 35-year-old pop superstar has enjoyed it so … Read more
John Terry has been caught in a battle with his neighbours over plans to build a pool-side party and drinks area at his £4.35million Surrey mansion. The former England captain, 39, and his wife Toni, 38, moved into the plush 18th century, seven-bedroom property in July last year. The couple recently sought permission to add an … Read more
Johnson & Johnson is planning to start a late-stage clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine in up to 60,000 people worldwide in late September. If the company hits the enrollment aim, which was reported on a US government database, it would be the largest-ever study looking at a possible immunization for the virus. Rival … Read more
Exam board Pearson has pulled its BTEC results less than 24 hours before releasing them, sparking a fresh round of results chaos for nearly half a million pupils. Pearson, the provider of BTECs, told schools and colleges not to publish level 1 and 2 results in the vocational qualifications to give them time to re-grade … Read more
Diners’ club tastecard unveils plans to take on Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat with new takeaway service where customers get permanent 10% discount tastecard co-founder Matt Turner said the company’s launch due in September will be ‘most disruptive delivery launch since the menu and telephone order’ Plan will see service launched in London before … Read more
Hands-free driving on motorways WITHIN MONTHS: Ministers draw up plans to approve ‘lane-keeping’ technology that ‘delegates the task of driving to the vehicle’ at speeds up to 70mph Call for evidence about cars using Automated Lane Keeping System (ALKS) Technology will be available from the spring and they want views on legislation Claims it can … Read more
Hands-free driving on motorways WITHIN MONTHS: Ministers draw up plans to approve ‘lane-keeping’ technology that ‘delegates the task of driving to the vehicle’ at speeds up to 70mph Call for evidence about cars using Automated Lane Keeping System (ALKS) Technology will be available from the spring and they want views on legislation Claims it can … Read more