Coins marking Queen’s 95th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Decimal Day are among those unveiled for 2021 by the Royal Mint New special coin released to celebrate the Queen’s birthday uses phrase from her first televised address Her Majesty told the British public in address in 1957 that she …
Read More »Rex Whistler’s controversial Tate mural was a ‘work of the past’, artist’s family insist
Rex Whistler’s family has intervened in a racism row over the artist’s giant mural in the Tate by defending the controversial piece as a “work of the past”. Descendants of the late British artist have issued a joint statement suggesting it was “perhaps unsurprising” that Whistler painted Oriental figures on …
Read More »Meet the co-owner of ‘the world’s best B&B’, The 25 in Torquay, who says four out of five is failure
Failure. That’s how Andy Banner-Price, the co-owner of The 25 Boutique B&B in Torquay, sees a four-star review on Tripadvisor, which earlier this year declared it the world’s best B&B for the second year running. To date it has over 800 reviews on the site – and every single one …
Read More »Covid UK: Critically-ill patients from overwhelmed wards in London will be sent to West Country
Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’ as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans. Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK’s epidemic are preparing to transfer …
Read More »Tony Blair: UK needs up to five million Covid-19 vaccines a week
T ony Blair has said the entire country needs to be placed under a ramped-up Covid-19 vaccination programme with up to five million jabs a week. His comments on Sunday come as the NHS prepares to roll out the newly approved Oxford University and AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses available …
Read More »Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas may have to leave the UK next year as attraction suffers funding crisis
E dinburgh Zoo’s giant pandas may have to return to China next year at the end of their 10-year contract with the Chinese government due to financial pressures. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park, faced enormous financial pressure when it …
Read More »Kate Middleton is biggest fashion influencer of the year
Kate Middleton has been named the UK’s most popular fashion influencer, after overtaking Meghan Markle last year. When the Duchess of Sussex, 39, first joined The Firm in 2017, the ‘Meghan Effect’ saw shoppers go wild for anything she wore – but her fashion influence dramatically declined after Megxit, according to …
Read More »Shocking and bizarre crimes reported to police in December
EVERY month, the Warrington Guardian takes a look back at some of the most shocking and bizarre crimes reported to police in the town over the past few weeks. Machete gang attack A woman was attacked in her own home by a gang of masked burglars brandishing a machete. The …
Read More »Post Office delivers two board seats to postmasters after Horizon scandal | Business News
The Post Office will this week outline plans to hand two board seats to serving postmasters as it seeks to draw a line under the IT scandal which saw managers wrongly sent to prison. Sky News has learnt that the government-owned company will announce on Monday that a committee of …
Read More »Covid UK: Liverpool’s Labour-run city council calls for another national lockdown
Liverpool’s council leaders today called for a third national lockdown to contain the new ‘mutant’ strain of Covid and prevent a ‘catastrophe’. The city’s acting mayor, Wendy Simon, and the Labour-run city council’s cabinet say the speed of the rise in coronavirus cases have reached ‘alarming levels’ and urgent action …
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