Broadband customers face higher bills as Ofcom rules out price cap on BT’s new full-fibre network for a decade Company is also spending £12billion on rolling out full-fibre broadband in UK Openreach will see no regulation or price caps on its new fibre services Increase in costs will encourage customers to switch and get new … Read more
Britain’s Covid R rate today dropped back down to 0.8 after a blip saw it rise last week, as yet more figures added to the mountain of evidence that the worst of the pandemic is over. No10’s scientific advisory panel SAGE estimated the reproduction rate — the average number of people infected by each person with … Read more
When the pandemic began, COVID-19 death rate soared in Democrat-led liberal states – but the trend reversed sharply by July 4, a new study reveals. At the widest gap between death rates for Republican- versus Democrat-led states, 1.8-times more Americans were dying in red states than blue ones, according to the new Johns Hopkins University … Read more
Osteosarcoma — a painful and aggressive form of bone cancer — is more common in larger dog breeds like Great Danes and Rottweilers, a study has confirmed. Experts led from the University of Bristol analysed health data on 906,967 dogs to identify those breeds and characteristics that might increase the risk of the cancer. The team found … Read more
Women reported higher levels of anxiety, depression and loneliness than men during the coronavirus crisis as more than a quarter of university students say they feel lonely ‘often’ or ‘always’ Office for National Statistics released analysis of Covid crisis on men and women Analysis showed women reported higher levels of anxiety, loneliness than men Meanwhile, … Read more
Middle-class families who have been caught out by the freeze in income tax thresholds could save hundreds of pounds by boosting their pensions. The number of Britons paying the higher rate of income tax will soar from four million to five million by 2026, following Rishi Sunak’s Budget. The higher 40 per cent rate will … Read more
We’ll pay more council tax… for WORSE services: Watchdog warns of Covid double whammy as it emerges local authority budgets took a £9.7billion hit from pandemic The National Audit Office said the pandemic had left some councils at risk of ‘financial failure’, creating £6.9billion in additional costs in 2020/21 The Government has announced £9.1billion in … Read more
Has Covid’s variant-fueled fourth wave begun in Florida? ER visits for coronavirus symptoms are 30% higher in the Sunshine State compared to the rest of the US New CDC data shows that 2.6% of all emergency department visits in Florida are for coronavirus-like illness This figure is 30% higher than the 2% seen for emergency department … Read more
People with higher incomes are ‘prouder, more confident and less afraid’, according to ‘the most comprehensive analysis to date’. Researchers in the US and Singapore analysed income data and questionnaire results of 1.6 million people in 162 countries, including the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France and Japan. Higher income predicted whether people felt … Read more
Budget 2021 at a glance Here are the main points of Rishi Sunak’s Budget: Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts economy will return to pre-Covid levels by the middle of 2022, six months earlier than previously thought. OBR forecast economy will grow this year by 4 per cent, by 7.3 per cent in 2022, then … Read more