Royal Navy chiefs set up elite unit to hunt for Russian spyware including underwater drones near UK’s key nuclear submarine base Team understood to have been deployed to Faslane to track underwater drones Comes after an unmanned ‘spy boat’ found off the coast of Scotland last month Surge in Russian subs in waters previously controlled … Read more
Coronavirus is not out of control in the UK, according to scientists who have added to the confusion over the true size of the second wave by estimating there are now around 44,000 new infections happening each day. King’s College London researchers behind the Covid Symptom Study predict cases in the seven-day spell ending October 25 … Read more
Coronavirus is not out of control in the UK, according to scientists who estimate there are now around 44,000 new infections happening each day. King’s College London researchers behind the Covid Symptom Study predict cases were last week 20 per cent higher than a week before. The previous seven days had seen a rise of … Read more
Footfall on the UK’s high streets has fallen by three per cent in seven days as local lockdown restrictions dealt a new hammer blow to retailers today. The annual decline in footfall across the UK reached a staggering 32.9 per cent last week, with the biggest annual fall in Wales at 40.3 per cent in … Read more
I can’t believe it’s not beef! UK’s first vegan BUTCHER is set to open – serving lookalike plant-based alternatives including ‘bay-con’, ‘chilli-non-carne’ and ‘shredded BBQ porc’ Rudy’s Vegan Butcher is set to open its doors on World Vegan Day, November 1 Ahead of its launch, the eatery has released a mocked-up photos of its produce, … Read more
Mass testing and a better contact tracing regime could bring the UK’s coronavirus outbreak under control, SAGE has claimed in another dig at Number 10’s bungling test and trace system. Government scientific advisers endorsed Boris Johnson’s £100billion Operation Moonshot, which would see 10million people tested a day regardless of whether they have symptoms, in a … Read more
Why has Test and Trace fallen apart in England while other countries have managed to make the system work? The principle is simple – test people with symptoms, trace their contacts and ask them to self-isolate – but the execution has varied dramatically. England has lagged behind countries such as South Korea, which rapidly grasped … Read more
Why has Test and Trace fallen apart in England while other countries have managed to make the system work? The principle is simple – test people with symptoms, trace their contacts and ask them to self-isolate – but the execution has varied dramatically. England has lagged behind countries such as South Korea, which rapidly grasped … Read more
Boris Johnson was on a collision course with the Church over Brexit tonight. In an extraordinary intervention, the UK’s five Anglican archbishops warned that controversial legislation would set a ‘disastrous precedent’ and undermine Britain’s standing in the world. The group, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the Internal Market Bill would ride … Read more
Boris Johnson was on a collision course with the Church over Brexit tonight. In an extraordinary intervention, the UK’s five Anglican archbishops warned that controversial legislation would set a ‘disastrous precedent’ and undermine Britain’s standing in the world. The group, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the Internal Market Bill would ride … Read more