Crisis for Gupta triggers halt to £10m state-funded tech trial 

Crisis at Gupta’s metals empire triggers halt to £10m state-funded tech trial Trials of software to improve efficiency were to take place at two of his plants   However, Gupta’s Liberty Steel last week put seven UK plants up for sale By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May 2021 | … Read more

SpaceX: Satellite operator calls for a halt to Starlink launches pending an environmental review

SpaceX may face a legal challenge from a rival satellite operator who has called for a halt to Starlink launches pending an environmental review of the megaconstellation. Broadband firm Viasat called on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to stay a license modification allowing for Starlink’s expansion in low orbit. The megaconstellation, which … Read more

Georgia clinic is the FOURTH to halt J&J vaccinations within three days

Millions of Americans are currently receiving coronavirus vaccinations as the U.S. works to restore some sense of normalcy from the pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 33 percent of the US population has received at least one dose and 19.4 percent are fully immunized, either from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson … Read more

Police car screeches to halt to avoid cows at 90mph after herd strays into the road

Emergency moo-neouvre! Police car screeches to halt to avoid cows at 90mph after herd strays into the road South Yorkshire Police officers were met by herd of cows while on an urgent call  Sheffield officers narrowly avoided cows who spread themselves across road  Force encouraged people to remember to close their gates to avoid this … Read more

Chile’s world-leading vaccine rollout fails to halt spread of Covid as country goes into lockdown

Chile’s world-leading coronavirus vaccination rollout is failing to halt the spread of Covid-19 as the majority of the country goes into lockdown, with many blaming the use of China’s CoronaVac jabs.  By Thursday the narrow South American nation, hemmed in by the Andes mountains and the Pacific ocean, had given more than six million people … Read more

Ursula von der Leyen threatens to halt exports of vaccines if bloc doesn’t get its deliveries first

Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to halt exports of AstraZeneca vaccines if the EU does not receive its deliveries first, in a worsening row over delayed shipments that has caused international tensions. The EU chief told the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company it has to come through on deliveries to the bloc.  In an interview with … Read more

Europe Covid vaccines: Italy, Norway, Demark halt use of AstraZeneca jab

Italy and Norway have joined Denmark and a host of other European countries in halting their use of AstraZeneca jabs amid fears they cause blood clots.  Eight EU countries have now announced they will stop using the jab over blood clot fears after a nurse in Austria died from a clot shortly after taking it, … Read more

Save our army! Four top generals band together to demand Boris Johnson calls a halt to troop cuts

Four generals have issued an unprecedented plea to Boris Johnson to withdraw plans to axe 10,000 soldiers from the Army. The commanders, with decades of frontline service behind them, say the UK will no longer be taken seriously as a military power if the numbers are cut. The Army is widely expected to be reduced to … Read more

Lamb stop! ‘Stampede’ of sheep brings bus to a halt as flock is driven along a residential street

Lamb stop! ‘Stampede’ of sheep brings bus to a halt as flock is driven along a residential street Wayne Kinney spotted the bizarre encounter outside his home in East Sussex Flock brought traffic to a halt as sheep swarmed along the road and pavement They were being herded by a group of people on foot … Read more

Yet ANOTHER jab supplier says ‘non’ to EU as vaccine rollout grinds to halt

Yet ANOTHER jab supplier says ‘non’ to the EU: France and Italy suffer further blows to their vaccine rollout as US firm Moderna will deliver fewer doses US supplier Moderna will deliver 20 per cent fewer jab doses to Italy by February France is now expecting 25 per cent fewer doses than originally scheduled The … Read more