Very cosy! Queen hopes to plug a £64million hole in the Royal finances by flogging bed socks… for £69 a pair Her Majesty is hoping to sell bed socks and hot-water bottles to plug £64m hole Royal Collection store products include cashmere socks priced at £69 for a pair Hot-water bottle …
Read More »British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe faces a revolt from Icelandic farmers over salmon rivers
British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe faces a revolt from Icelandic farmers after he splashed £36million on salmon rivers to secure fishing rights Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought up tracts of pristine wilderness to secure fishing rights The billionaire, 68, has spent £36.2 million on farms in Iceland since 2016 He is …
Read More »Covid UK: How Piers Corbyn leads an anti-vaxxer movement that thinks jabs are a conspiracy
New Year’s Eve at St Thomas’ Hospital in London is always gruelling. Booze-fuelled accidents, injuries and domestic incidents test staff physically, mentally and emotionally. For those on duty as 2020 waned, it was a particular challenge — and not just because of Covid-19, which was already filling intensive care unit …
Read More »Covid UK: As a hospital opens its doors, ROBERT HARDMAN reveals the scale of the battle
The calm is not just eerie. It feels almost shocking. Here is row upon row of unconscious, critically sick people – including a new mum, for heaven’s sake. All are clinging to life via a latticework of tubes and wires and on a scale which the most experienced old hands …
Read More »Royal Mail in discussions with MPs to make NHS letters blue, so they can be prioritised in Covid ‘black spots’
Some 130,000 letters have already been sent to invite people to book a vaccination appointment, while 500,000 more are being sent out this week. Last night, Royal Mail said they were “exploring a range of options with the NHS to help identify key mail items in the network even more …
Read More »Covid UK: Whitehall sources pledge ALL over-50s will have vaccine by March
Whitehall sources last night vowed that all over-50s could be vaccinated by the end of March as figures show that more than three million people have already received the Covid jab. The Government is preparing to more than double the pace of the vaccine roll-out next week, with vaccines for …
Read More »Royal Horticultural Society garden puts on an impressive show of colour.
Look what’s blooming early! Royal Horticultural Society garden puts on an impressive show of colour… and it’s open to visit if you live nearby Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley, Surrey, still offers plenty to see It’s open for those lucky enough to live within a short distance ‘There are …
Read More »Test and Trace ‘influencers’ were paid £63,000 by ministers to promote the service
Love Island stars have been pictured jetting off to sun-soaked locations months after taking taxpayers’ cash to promote NHS Test and Trace – as a top health chief warned earlier this week that the system isn’t working. While millions of Britons live under stay-at-home orders, influencers such as Shaughna Phillips …
Read More »Postman has lucky escape as his van is almost swept away by swollen river
Royal BAIL! Postman has lucky escape as van is almost swept away by swollen river after he got stranded in flooded ford following days of torrential rain Dramatic pictures show the red van stuck near Coldgate Mill in Northumberland Firefighters, paramedics and a mountain rescue team all dashed to help …
Read More »Royal Mail should recruit unemployed youths to bolster delivery service, say MPs
On Wednesday, Royal Mail published an updated list of areas where there is “acute service disruption,” cutting the number of places affected from 28 to 21. But the firm has been accused of underreporting the true severity of the situation, and should face penalties, say MP’s. Ofcom, which regulates the …
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