The United States surpassed 20 million coronavirus cases on New Year’s Day, but the raging pandemic didn’t stop large crowds from gathering in several big cities across the country including New York, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa on Thursday night. Data released by Johns Hopkins University on Friday indicates …
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Ohio boy, 3, who was abandoned in a cemetery with his dog two days before Christmas is reunited with his father while cops weigh charges against his mom Boy was left abandoned with his dog in a cemetery two days before Christmas Three-year-old Tony was picked up by officers from …
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After the year we have all had, many people will be hoping 2020 will become a distant memory very soon as we look ahead to a (hopefully) brighter 2021. But before we let go of it completely, we have reviewed the news from the year and taken a look back at …
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Home-movers are being warned to watch out for scams which could involve their identity and large sums of money – such as their deposit – being stolen. The stamp duty holiday, which ends on March 31 2021, has fuelled a housing market “mini boom”, with buyers rushing to beat the …
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My haven, Ian Rankin: The bestselling crime writer, 60, in the music room of his Edinburgh flat Ian Rankin, 60, shared items of significance inside his home in Edinburgh Bestselling crime writer cherishes pictures of his family placed around the room He also treasures props from the ITV adaptation of his …
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An urgent plea for people to follow the Coronavirus rules has been issued after Middlesbrough reported the highest number of positive test results in the town since the pandemic began. Case numbers reached their highest on Tuesday, December 29 with 143 positive cases returned – nearly double the previous high …
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Some weeks ago I thought it might be helpful to paint a picture in these pages of what this country could look like in a few years’ time. Think Back To The Future if you like. My imaginary hero was not a mad professor creating a time-travelling DeLorean car, but …
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Heavily-pregnant university graduate, 22, who was battling Covid woke from nine-day coma to find she had given birth to a baby daughter Mehpara Naqvi was seven months pregnant when she was rushed to hospital 22-year-old developed Covid symptoms in October before struggling to breathe Medics performed a C-section, during which …
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Two of Britain’s busiest hospitals were in crisis on Thursday – with one warning it is on the brink of being able to treat Covid patients only and the other saying it was in ‘disaster medicine mode’. As the UK declared a record-high 55,892 coronavirus cases and almost 1,000 more deaths, …
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A Hermes delivery driver quit his job after just two days because he had to spend 45 minutes a day sorting through parcels without pay, he claims. Matt Solomons worked two shifts at Deliveries247, a company based in Greenford, North London, which is contracted by Hermes. Sharing pictures of the …
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