Pentagon awards firm contract to build mini space station

Is the US creating the first military space station? Pentagon moves to design a mini ‘orbital outpost’ for government experiments The Department of Defense announced last year it wants to build a space station The group has awarded the contract to aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp The firm will transform its Shooting Star cargo ship … Read more

The Voice: Contestants’ contract means Nine can eliminate them at any time

The Voice EXCLUSIVE: Contestants’ strict contract means Nine can eliminate them at any time – even if they’re ‘winning’ with the public By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:10 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 05:14 BST, 7 July 2020 Every year, The Voice Australia gives undiscovered singers the chance to win a … Read more

Thirty-six people contract COVID-19 at care home that unknowingly took three infected NHS patients

Thirty-six residents test positive for coronavirus at care home that admitted three hospital patients not knowing they had the disease Cheaney Court welcomed three ‘covid-free’ hospital patients earlier this month   However, the Kettering General Hospital patients did actually have the virus  As a result, 36 people in the care home unknowingly contracted coronavirus This was … Read more

Small family-run pest control firm won £108m contract to procure PPE for frontline NHS staff

Revealed: Small family-run pest control firm with just 16 staff won £108MILLION contract to procure PPE for frontline NHS staff PestFix, which has 16 employees, was awarded a £108million contract in April Founder Dan England said that his firm may have been quicker to respond to the call for help  The Government has spent £340million securing … Read more

Piers Morgan confirms he’s signed a new contract to REMAIN on Good Morning Britain until 2021

Piers Morgan has confirmed that he’s signed a new contract that will see him remain on Good Morning Britain until 2021. The broadcaster, 55, insisted that he ‘doesn’t care’ about complaints over his no-nonsense interview technique and declared: ‘If my style upsets people, don’t watch!’ It comes amid Ofcom complaints from 4000 viewers over his … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Contract tracers say system is a ‘shambles’

With great fanfare, Boris Johnson last week announced a ‘world beating’ army of contact tracers whose job is to stop coronavirus in its tracks. No fewer than 25,000 have been hired. Their mission – to combat coronavirus by sleuthing down every person in danger of contracting Covid from each new case that emerges. On Thursday … Read more

Utah government suspends contract with data collection company founded by ‘former KKK member’

The Utah Attorney General’s Office and multiple law enforcement agencies across the state have suspended their contracts with a surveillance company after reports that its founder had previously been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The company, Banjo.io, uses AI to analyze GPS data, images and video scrapped from social media posts, surveillance cameras, … Read more

HSBC makes it easier to get a mortgage on a zero hours contract as bank relaxes application rules

It’s now easier to get a mortgage on a zero hours contract as HSBC becomes the latest lender to relax the rules for those not in full-time work HSBC relaxes its application rules for zero hours contract workers  Applicants will now have to submit less evidence of income and tax paid Bank says this will help … Read more

Peter Kraus reveals that he never became The Bachelor due to contract negotiation conflicts

After coming in second to Bryan Abasolo during Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette in 2017, fans expected Peter Kraus to become The Bachelor. But during his appearance on The Ben And Ashley I Almost Famous podcast on Thursday, the 35-year-old personal trainer explained that it never came to fruition because he and producers could not … Read more

Government watchdog rules Pentagon’s $10billion cloud contract award to Microsoft was legal

A government watchdog agency has ruled that the Pentagon’s cloud contract award to Microsoft was legal, despite claims from Amazon that it was snubbed because of President Donald Trump’s dislike for Jeff Bezos.  The Defense Department inspector general found no evidence of White House interference in the highly lucrative cloud computing contract award process, ruling … Read more