Fewer students have found university places through clearing, figures from this year’s school leavers have shown. More than 13,000 applicants have been accepted on to degree courses through the annual process – down 24% on the same point last year. The figures come the day after students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their … Read more
A cold sore sufferer who dreaded having the ‘conversation’ at the start of new relationships claims a balm made from liquorice has stopped them in their tracks. Nicola Freeman, 37, from Hampshire, who got her first cold sore aged 16, says at her worst, she had six large cold sores at the same time. ‘My lips were … Read more
Seattle police officers were filmed kneeling on the necks of two CHOP demonstrators as they were being arrested for squatting at a downtown intersection on two separate occasions on Thursday. Seattle police officers continued to gradually reclaim the streets from the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) as one video shows cops dive-tackling a group of … Read more
Seattle police on Wednesday reclaimed their precinct in the city’s ‘occupied’ protest zone after the mayor finally issued a 2am executive order to vacate the area. At least 13 people were arrested at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone which has seen two deadly shootings and and crime rise by more than 500 per … Read more
Demands to release inquiry report on Priti Patel bullying claims as Cabinet Secretary ‘clears her of wrongdoing’ after former mandarin launched legal action Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill found ‘no evidence’ to support allegations Staff across three Government departments made claims against Priti Patel Home Secretary denied the claims with the backing of Boris Johnson … Read more
In the race to fight Covid-19, many businesses are pivoting from what they traditionally offer to provide essential services – generating a new income stream in the process. While Mercedes F1 engineers have turned their attention to producing ventilators for example, Brendan O’Shea’s business, Just Clear, has bolted on Covid-19 decontamination services in addition to … Read more
The government today scolded ‘shameful’ panic-buyers and pleaded with the frenzied shoppers to consider more vulnerable people before emptying the nation’s supermarkets. The coronavirus death toll in the UK has hit 233 as a further 53 people died in England alone in the worst 24 hours yet. Environment Secretary George Eustice told people to ‘calm … Read more