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Updated: Jan 15, 2021 01:35 PM Cyber crime: police are warning residents to be wary of phishing scams seeking to get your bank account details Scam artists are circulating e-mails asking recipients to provide personal information in order to claim cash prizes. The Bermuda Police Service is urging residents to …

New Year’s Eve at St Thomas’ Hospital in London is always gruelling. Booze-fuelled accidents, injuries and domestic incidents test staff physically, mentally and emotionally. For those on duty as 2020 waned, it was a particular challenge — and not just because of Covid-19, which was already filling intensive care unit …

The calm is not just eerie. It feels almost shocking. Here is row upon row of unconscious, critically sick people – including a new mum, for heaven’s sake. All are clinging to life via a latticework of tubes and wires and on a scale which the most experienced old hands …

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador will become the fourth province to go to the polls during the COVID-19 pandemic after Premier Andrew Furey called an election for Feb. 13. Furey’s request to the province’s chief justice Friday to dissolve the legislature follows two days of free-flowing funding announcements …

VILLAGERS are facing major delays in deliveries of important post due to Royal Mail workers being off sick with Covid-19 or self-isolating. Residents of the village of Wheatley, near Oxford, complained of ‘severely delayed’ services only days after its local delivery office closed. Some locals revealed that they have not …

“SORRY for that,” says Airdrie postman Nathan Evans, explaining why he initially had to hang up his call with The Glasgow Times. “I’m on my route and someone stopped me and asked for a picture there: it’s like what is happening!”  If the last week of the 26-year-old’s life is …

The family of an 85-year-old great-grandad who was described as a “bundle of joy” say they have been torn apart after he died at Ipswich Hospital just 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus.   George Robert Shaw, a father-of-two, grandad-of-eight and great-grandad to 20 children, sadly lost his short battle with Covid-19 on …

The Royal Mint has begun the countdown to the 50th anniversary of ‘D-day’. Not the World War II beach landing, that was in 1944, but ‘decimalisation day’. On 15 February 1971, UK coinage was reorganised into the way we know today, with the old system of 12 pence in a …

T he UK is to face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine as the pharmaceutical company upgrades its production capacity. Pfizer is increasing its production at its plant in Puurs, Belgium, in efforts to produce more doses than originally planned for 2021 – temporarily reducing deliveries to …

After having severed ties with troubled South African Airways and launching its own brand last November, Airlink, as it is now called, is the African continent’s second-biggest airline after Ethiopian Airlines. The newly independent airline offers almost 1.2 million seats for sale during summer in the southern hemisphere. Airlink’s busiest …