Care homes need urgent funding so staff can lay on family visits this Christmas, report warns 

Care homes desperately need more funding to enable family visits this Christmas, a major report concluded yesterday. Ninety-four per cent of care home managers are trying to arrange visits but the cost of making it happen is an enormous barrier, the National Care Forum (NCF) found. It said an urgent injection of Government funding is … Read more

Care homes need urgent funding so staff can lay on family visits this Christmas, report warns 

Care homes desperately need more funding to enable family visits this Christmas, a major report concluded yesterday. Ninety-four per cent of care home managers are trying to arrange visits but the cost of making it happen is an enormous barrier, the National Care Forum (NCF) found. It said an urgent injection of Government funding is … Read more

Four BILLION people worldwide will be overweight by 2050, report predicts 

Global eating habits have set the world on course to have more than four billion overweight people by 2050, new research predicts.  And 1.5 billion of those people will be obese, a new report released Wednesday suggests.  Meanwhile, 500 million people will likely be underweight and living at the edge of starvation   The Potsdam Institute … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Software firm Micro Focus shrugs off pandemic hangover

MARKET REPORT: Software firm Micro Focus shrugs off pandemic hangover to soar 31% as turnaround plan starts to bear fruit By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 22:24 GMT, 18 November 2020 Shareholders cheered Micro Focus after the software group signalled that it was back on track … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Easyjet slumps to first loss in its 25 history

MARKET REPORT: Easyjet takes £1.3bn hit as it slumps to its first loss in 25 years with passengers numbers halved in the pandemic By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 GMT, 17 November 2020 | Updated: 23:27 GMT, 17 November 2020 No amount of bracing for painful results from Easyjet could take the … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Second vaccine delivers shot in arm for global markets

The FTSE 100 started the week with a bang after another Covid vaccine announcement gave shares a shot in the arm. Stock markets across the world rallied after US company Moderna said its potential coronavirus vaccine was nearly 95pc effective. On the London Stock Exchange many of the companies hit hardest by Covid restrictions including … Read more

One million kids have been infected, report claims, but fewer than 120 (0.01%) have died 

Coronavirus infections among American children are rising but the death rate is continuing to fall, a new report finds. As of November 12, more than one million youngsters have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revealed on Monday. This means children now make up 11.5 percent of all cases in the … Read more

Report: Divorcing parents who can’t look each other in the eye ‘could be harming their children’

Divorcing parents who can’t look each other in the eye should be forced to attend re-education courses before they are allowed to share custody of their children, judge-led report claims Judge-led report says divorced parents should be asked to take ‘eye contact test’ Eye contact test will check if they get on enough to share … Read more

Spreading anti-vaxx conspiracy theories should be CRIME, report says

Spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories online should be a crime, according to some of Britain’s top scientists. The Royal Society and British Academy institutions have together called for laws to be drawn up about spreading bogus claims about vaccination on the internet. A huge leap forward in the fight against coronavirus was announced yesterday when it … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Galliford shares soar as it shrugs off virus

MARKET REPORT: Galliford Try building expectations up again after announcing it expects to return to profit this year By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 13 November 2020 Galliford Try is building expectations up again after announcing it expects to return to profit this year.  … Read more