[ad_1] Good morning, this is Richard Parkin bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Friday 24 January. Top stories The scandal-ridden $100m community sport infrastructure program is facing further scrutiny, after a rugby union club in a marginal Coalition-held seat received $500,000 for new female change rooms, despite not fielding a women’s team since…
[ad_1] Fourteen UK patients have been tested for the killer coronavirus after returning from China with flu-like symptoms, it can be revealed. The unidentified patients are thought to be from Wuhan, the city at the heart of the outbreak which has killed 18 people – officials today revealed the first person had died outside of Wuhan’s…
[ad_1] NewsUK The Lowther Estate Trust says its proposal has caused ‘considerable concern’ Thursday, 23rd January 2020, 9:34 pm Sunset above Grasmere in the Lake District (Photo: Visit Britain) Villagers in the Lake District have fought off a plan to float “gentlemen’s yachts” at Grasmere – the lake described by the poet William Wordsworth as…
[ad_1] Crack open the English sparkling wine! Downing Street swaps champagne for home-grown British fizz as the Queen rubber-stamps Boris Johnson’s Brexit Bill and it becomes law Parliament finally gave its formal backing to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal last night EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill has now been given Royal Assent by the Queen It is…
[ad_1] Danny Baker is hit by backlash over his ‘nasty’ Twitter joke blaming Ozzy Osbourne’s Parkinson’s on ’35 years’ of cocaine use – eight months after being sacked by BBC over ‘racist’ royal baby tweet Danny Baker joked about Ozzy Osbourne’s recent Parkinson’s diagnoses 61-year-old had previously been slammed for a tweet about the royal…
[ad_1] The fastest pension provider service times for both defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) schemes have “stalled” over the last few years, according to Portafina. It said that the lack of technological adaption is limiting improvements in speed. The firm stipulated that “until schemes move with the times and start accepting digital signatures…
[ad_1] The UK-based electric-vehicle startup Arrival has already earned plenty of attention over the past couple of years for its refreshingly different, futuristic and eye-catching electric commercial-vehicle designs. As much as the designs are a standout—the company’s Royal Mail vans, for instance—the nature of the $110 million investment in Arrival from Hyundai Motor Company and…
[ad_1] A 46-year-old man from Florida died after leaping from the 10th-story deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The captain confirmed the deceased was an events contractor with the LGBTQ+ cruise company chartering the ship for a private event. Early reports claimed the man made ‘a clean jump’…
[ad_1] The bill implementing Britain's exit deal with the European Union officially became law on Thursday ahead of the country's departure from the bloc … [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The Queen, pictured in January last year, may be in her nineties, but she still maintains a diary of royal engagements The Queen is known for her strong constitution and no fuss approach to her infrequent illnesses. The 93-year-old head of state has missed her annual visit to the Sandringham Women’s Institute due to…