Ministers draw up plans to send children back to school by May 11 – but Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces revolt as some want return delayed until June Friends of Gavin Williamson say that he wants children back in school by May 11 However, other ministers want the return of school pupils delayed until June … Read more
NASA and SpaceX target May 27 to send astronauts to the ISS aboard an American rocket the first time in nearly a decade NASA and SpaceX will launch two astronauts aboard an American rocket May 27 This will be the first mission to leave from US to the ISS since 2011 The crew will board … Read more
Facebook to send myth-busting messages to users who have liked, reacted or commented on misinformation about the coronavirus on the social network Facebook users interacting with fake news will see a message in their news feed This encourages them to visit the World Health Organisation for health updates Facebook also introduced a ‘Get the Facts’ section … Read more
China took advantage of the USS Theodore Roosevelt being crippled by the coronavirus by sending an aircraft carrier and fighter jets close to the disputed territory of Taiwan over the weekend. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Liaoning, China’s first operational aircraft carrier, and five accompanying warships passed first through the Miyako Strait, located between Japan’s islands … Read more
Second home-owners flouting the coronavirus lockdown are posting their luggage through couriers in an attempt to avoid police. Rural crime teams have reported investigating delivery vans carrying suitcases filled with clothes through police checkpoints, so that if families are stopped enroute they will not be found with them. It comes as furious villagers have demanded second … Read more
Queen breaks with centuries of tradition to send Maundy money by Royal Mail instead of handing it out personally to this year’s 188 recipients including the world’s oldest bell-ringer, aged 101 Money is sent by the monarch to elderly each year the day before Good Friday The recipients are always over 70 and currently all … Read more
The coronavirus lockdown has left many of us with unanswered questions about how we should go about our daily lives and the risks we face. Last week, we asked for your questions about the pandemic, which we then put to leading experts. Here, Professor John Oxford, a virologist at Queen Mary University of London, and … Read more
Let’s take this party online! A 101-year-old man whose March 31st birthday bash has been cancelled because of coronavirus fears asks people to get him 101,000 likes on Twitter instead 101 year-old Owen had his birthday cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic He took a picture of himself holding a sign, asking for good birthday … Read more
Let’s take this party online! A 101-year-old man whose March 31st birthday bash has been cancelled because of coronavirus fears asks people to get him 101,000 likes on Twitter instead 101 year-old Owen had his birthday cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic He took a picture of himself holding a sign, asking for good birthday … Read more
Desperate British pensioners trapped aboard a cruise ship in northern Italy have pleaded for the Government to send in the Royal Navy to rescue them. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline via video call, three of the 214 British citizens on the Costa Pacifica – which moored last night at Genoa, near the epicentre of the outbreak … Read more