One in 13 people across the UK are currently infected with Covid, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures mean that some 4.9million people across the UK have coronavirus at the moment – the highest number seen since ONS began collecting data. This week’s …
Read More »Royal Mail : Remote and rural areas of UK are shopping hotspots for online Black Friday purchases
Royal Mail today reveals the top ten areas where shoppers made the most online purchases over the course of Black Friday weekend this year. Savvy shoppers in Shetland Islands top the list of the UK’s top buyers in the biggest cyber shopping event of the year, followed by Kirkwall, Hebrides, …
Read More »Economic benefits outweigh rocket emissions, launch providers say
THE COMPANIES behind future launches at the proposed SaxaVord Spaceport say the economic benefit of operations in Unst will outweigh the environmental impact. The emissions from the rocket due to be used for the first launch will be equivalent to the annual output from a “handful of automobiles”, a media …
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