JEFF PRESTRIDGE: MPs must ramp up pressure to help victims of scams

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: MPs must grill bank bosses over why they are refusing to help many customers who have lost life-changing sums of money to scams By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 12 June 2021 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 12 June 2021 I trust members of the Treasury Select Committee will … Read more

BT reveals plans to ramp up fibre broadband roll-out to serve 25 million homes

BT reveals it will ramp up fibre broadband roll-out to serve 25 million homes thanks to a tax break as it reports a hefty slide in profit By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 10:22 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 10:22 BST, 13 May 2021 BT has said it plans to ramp up … Read more

Impatient drivers REVERSE up a one-way entrance ramp to avoid traffic

Impatient drivers REVERSE up a one-way entrance ramp to escape traffic jam on highway Motorists risked $120 fines by illegally reversing off a Long Island highway  The impatient drivers decided they did not wish to sit in a long traffic jam  Footage of the dangerous driving has attracted major criticism on the internet  By Darren … Read more

Phantom lumberjack strikes again: Police ramp up hunt for chainsaw vandal as MORE trees felled

Police have stepped up the hunt for a phantom lumberjack who has felled more than 50 trees in less than a month in Surrey. After a break of almost a week with no trees being felled, eight more were chainsawed down by the crook at the weekend. Despite increasing night time patrols with the help … Read more

Phantom lumberjack strikes again: Police ramp up hunt for chainsaw vandal as MORE trees felled

Police have stepped up the hunt for a phantom lumberjack who has felled more than 50 trees in less than a month in Surrey. After a break of almost a week with no trees being felled, eight more were chain sawed down by the crook at the weekend. The culprit has now hacked down between … Read more

UK ‘super covid’ has spread to EVERY US state as expert warns CDC needs to ramp up genome sequencing

The coronavirus variant that was first identified in the UK has now spread to every single state in the U.S. As of Tuesday, Oklahoma became the final state to confirm infections linked to the strain, known as B 1.1.7. There are currently at least 15,511 cases of the variant across the country, including in the … Read more

Shocking moment truck falls 70ft over Wisconsin interchange ramp and lands upright driver survives

Shocking moment truck flips as it falls 70-feet over Wisconsin interchange ramp landing upright and the driver survives A video captured the moment a truck flew off a ramp and plunged 70 feet onto a Wisconsin interstate The driver lost control of a pickup truck on an elevated ramp and skidded over snow piled against … Read more

British drug giants ramp up battle against Covid-19 with a race for vaccine approvals 

British drug giants ramp up battle against Covid-19 with new treatments and a race for vaccine approvals Glaxosmithkline has joined an NHS study to test an antibody treatment The drug – known as Vir-7832 – could be a game changer  Meanwhile, Astrazeneca submitted its Covid-19 vaccine to European regulators Astra and Oxford University have applied … Read more

Garda World ready to ramp up £3.8bn fight for G4S

Garda World ready to ramp up £3.8bn fight for G4S after the security giant accepts rival’s offer By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 December 2020 | Updated: 22:25 GMT, 9 December 2020 The bidding war for security giant G4S reignited yesterday as brokers predicted Garda World would outbid the £3.8billion … Read more

Boris Johnson’s plan to ramp up hydrogen reliance ‘may not be viable’

Boris Johnson’s plan to ramp up Britain’s reliance on hydrogen to heat homes faces concerns from experts who fear it ‘may not be viable,’ if rolled-out across the country – amid concerns fossil fuel companies are ‘overselling,’ the energy. The Prime Minister announced a 10-point ‘green industrial revolution, which he says will create 250,000 jobs … Read more