The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has been in confidential talks with the government over a possible £1.5 billion scrappage scheme to kick-start the new car market, a leaked letter sent to ministers has revealed. The trade body said a ‘market stimulus package’ would need to encourage the purchase of diesel and petrol … Read more
On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it was suspending the hydroxychloroquine arm of its trial over safety concerns (file image) More than 120 leading scientists and doctors from around the world have criticised a hydroxychloroquine study that halted global trials of the anti-malaria drug. The experts have penned an open letter to the … Read more
Donald Trump late Monday threatened to permanently stop funding of the World Health Organization and reconsider membership of the United States in the body. The president shared a four page letter written to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to Twitter, saying the organization needs to make ‘major substantive improvements within the next 30 days’ for US … Read more
‘The country owes you all an enormous debt of gratitude:’ Prince William pens a letter to give ‘personal thanks’ to Fire and Rescue Services for their ‘truly remarkable work’ amid the coronavirus pandemic Prince William, 37, has penned a thank you letter to National Fire Chiefs Council Praised emergency services personnel for working ‘tirelessly’ to … Read more
A brave nurse has sent a heartbreaking apology to a church warden who was stabbed to death on a supermarket shopping trip saying: ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.’ NHS worker Lisa Way, 53, was also injured in the attack inside a village Co-op where grandfather John Rees, 88, was killed as his wife Eunice … Read more
Richard Madeley has slammed the Government over it’s ‘deeply divisive’ quarantine letter to many over-70s, saying it could ‘tear couples apart’. The television presenter, 63, claimed that people in the older age group were being ‘unfairly targeted’ while other vulnerable groups were not being addressed. It comes as he revealed that his wife of 34 … Read more
Jessica Marais published a hand-written letter about the ‘healing power of love’ on Instagram just days before she was rushed to hospital in a ‘visibly distressed state’ this weekend. On Saturday, the Packed to the Rafters star, 35, was escorted by police and paramedics from her home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs to Prince Of Wales Hospital in … Read more
Royal Mail scraps all Saturday letter deliveries until further notice saying it is because of the coronavirus crisis The Royal Mail is set to ‘temporarily’ cut back its services from this weekend People will face a two-day for letters as the post does not come on Sundays But most parcels will not be impacted and … Read more
An NHS nurse has made a desperate plea for companies to provide hospital staff with personal protective equipment. In the latest warning from a frontline health worker, the unnamed nurse claimed staff were being expected to reuse contaminated gowns. Posting on Facebook, she wrote: ‘Please, please, please if anybody knows of any companies that could … Read more
North Korean state media have published a letter they claim he sent to the South African President today, amid rumours he is dead. Dated today, the letter congratulates President Cyril Ramaphosa on South Africa’s Freedom Day, which marks the end of Apartheid, KCNA reports. The dictator, 36, wrote to President Ramaphosa to say their two nations’ … Read more