As outsourcer is accused of bagging £37bn from controversial scheme to tackle Covid, Serco slams false Labour claims over Test & Trace Jeremy Corbyn and leading Labour MPs wrongly suggested it had bagged £37billion from the scheme The outsourcing group has faced criticism over the controversial programme The firm said it had been awarded contracts … Read more
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab hit back on Tuesday night against the European Council president Charles Michel after he claimed the UK had imposed an ‘outright’ ban on coronavirus vaccination exports. Britain also summoned the EU’s UK delegation as Raab wrote to European Council chief after he made the claims in his newsletter published earlier on … Read more
Souvenir firm selling £75 bottles of ‘Cornish AIR’ is accused of false marketing after it emerged the ‘fresh coastal’ breeze was captured in DEVON Coast Capture Air sells bottles of sea air from locations around the UK The firm claims air was bottled at Hartland Point, which is close to Devon The blunder has sparked … Read more
Souvenir firm selling £75 bottles of ‘Cornish AIR’ is accused of false marketing after it emerged the ‘fresh coastal’ breeze was captured in DEVON Coast Capture Air sells bottles of sea air from locations around the UK The firm claims air was bottled at Hartland Point, which is close to Devon The blunder has sparked … Read more
Serco is not among Britain’s best-loved companies, in spite of the mammoth effort by Rupert Soames to restore its standing. The outsourcer’s reputation was badly scorched in 2019 when it paid £23million to the Serious Fraud Office as part settlement over cheating on its electronic tagging contracts. For all its faults, though, it does not … Read more
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been banned from Instagram for repeatedly sharing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The son of the former US Attorney General, US Senator and presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy is a prominent anti-vaxxer who set up his own advocacy group in 2016. A spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, confirmed that the … Read more
Bargain Hunt was censured by the BBC complaints watchdog after an antique dealer said false on-air claims that a ring he sold to contestants wasn’t a Victorian original tarnished his name. The jeweller said the programme had damaged his reputation in the industry when it suggested a ring he sold was made in the 1950s, … Read more
Grant Denyer addressed past speculation of a drug habit on Thursday’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! And now a Woman’s Day article that sparked the false rumours has resurfaced. The 43-year-old TV host was asked about the allegations on the show by his co-star Toni Pearen after a 2014 report … Read more
Using temperature scanners as a screening mechanism in offices, restaurants and at airports is unreliable and inaccurate, researchers have stated. Experts in human physiology published a scientific article on the usefulness of thermometers which scan a person’s skin, mostly often the forehead, to detect a fever. They say this process is fundamentally flawed as the … Read more
Macron says Brexit is the product of ‘lies and false promises’ in annual address delivered hours after his father denounced him as a ‘self-serving’ politician Emmanuel Macron has told how Brexit is the product of ‘lies and false promises’ Macron questioned the strength of Britain’s sovereignty following its departure His father Jean-Michel Macron, 70, spoke publicly … Read more