Ex-BBC and XFM radio host Michelle Mullane has died at the age of 50. The media personality tragically lost her battle against stage four bowel cancer on Christmas Eve, having been fighting the disease for over a year. When initially diagnosed, in June 2019, Michelle was told she would only live …
Read More »New York Post turns on Trump in scathing editorial telling him to give up election challenges
The New York Post’s editorial board, which has long supported President Donald Trump, has blasted his longshot attempts to overturn the election in a scathing editorial. The Post, which endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, issued the blistering rebuke in a front-page editorial for Monday’s edition, calling his continued election fraud …
Read More »Millions more Britons face being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown this week
Doctors fear the NHS could be quickly overwhelmed as hospital admissions surge due to the highly infectious Covid strain raging across the country. The total number of patients in hospital with the virus is likely to exceed the peak from the first wave, with 21,286 people being treated on December 22, …
Read More »Royal Mail reveals first special stamps of 2021 celebrating 70 years of Britain’s National Parks
Royal Mail reveals first special stamps of 2021 celebrating 70th anniversary of Britain’s first National Parks – from the Lake District to Dartmoor New stamps celebrate the formation of the first National Parks 70 years ago Landscapes include popular countryside tourist attractions from across the UK Nationals Parks such as …
Read More »Harry and Meghan ‘want a 12-month extension to Megixt deal that would see them keep royal patronages
Harry and Meghan ‘want a 12-month extension to Megxit deal that would see them keep their royal patronages beyond March 31 deadline’ – and could head back to the UK to seal the deal in person Couple seeking 12-month extension to the deal agreed with royals in January Stepped back …
Read More »Boris’s Brexit deal is set to help boost the economy by 6.1% next year
Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade agreement means Britain and the EU will have a ‘special relationship’ and ‘ugly’ politics will end, Michael Gove has said. The Cabinet minister said the deal allows for a ‘new pattern of friendly co-operation’ between the two ‘sovereign equals’. He added that he hoped the …
Read More »Millions move into Tier 4 to combat mutant Covid strain
Millions of people will move into Tier 4 today after those already under the tightest coronavirus restrictions celebrated a Covid Christmas any way they could. Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire will move into Tier 4, created in response to a variant of Covid-19 discovered in the UK, from Saturday. …
Read More »Notorious British traitor George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98
Notorious British traitor George Blake has died aged 98 half a century after he claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War, Russian foreign intelligence announced today. The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: Elderly residents could count for as little as 0.3% of 613,000 to receive Pfizer jab
Seven care homes in England have so far been given the coronavirus vaccine, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Figures suggest people in care, despite being identified as the most urgently in need, only account for 0.3 per cent of the 613,000 people who received the jab. …
Read More »Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex head to Christmas Day church service in Sandringham
Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex head to Christmas Day church service at Sandringham as William, Kate and other royals stay away over fears they would attract large crowds that would break Covid rules The couple were joined by their children James, Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Windsor at church today …
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