Cosmetic surgery is the latest lockdown trend. Apparently many people who’d been umming and ahhing over whether to submit to the scalpel have gone for it in recent months. One factor is they don’t have to worry about colleagues seeing them as they convalesce, all black eyes and scar tissue. …
Read More »Amazon plots a course into the healthcare industry
“In the US, companies like CVS and Walmart negotiate drug prices all the time, and they have a fairly significant amount of market power. They’ve been able to create monopolies on certain drugs, making it more difficult for consumers to access drugs if you’re not shopping with them. If Amazon …
Read More »Covid outbreaks at Royal Mail in Peterborough
Two staff members at the delivery office in Orton Southgate have tested positive for the virus, with several more self-isolating as a result. The Peterborough Telegraph has also been informed that there has been a confirmed case at the sorting office in Werrington which has led to at least 15 …
Read More »Covid school closures 'put children's lives on hold', says Ofsted chief
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Read More »Man, 43, attacks multiple people with a bat on two-hour New York City crime spree
A New York City man allegedly attacked multiple people on Saturday, leaving one unconscious and another with a broken arm, before carjacking two vehicles. The bat-wielding man was identified as 43-year-old Bryan Thompson. According to the New York Post, Thompson started his alleged violent spree around 7pm on Saturday in …
Read More »Coins marking Queen’s 95th birthday and Decimal Day anniversary are unveiled by the Royal Mint
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 …
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