Biker plunges into frozen lake when surface gives way and another rider falls in trying to save him… but friend hauls them both out Max Adami and his friends were riding across the frozen Lake Marokánka Mr Adami falls through the ice with his bike and sinks below the surface His friend Vojtěch Bláha also fell … Read more
‘If you’ve printed out an itinerary, throw it away,’ says Adam, the trip leader of Oceanwide Expeditions’ Hondius ship, as we gather for a briefing en route to the world’s largest desert – Antarctica. The initial plan for the ten-day expedition has changed, he says, and now we’ll venture below the Antarctic Circle, something that … Read more
The new lockdown in England at a glance England will be put into a full national lockdown that will last until the February half term. According to the new rules: All primary and secondary schools will close with immediate effect Classes will remain only for vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers. The plan … Read more
The brutal new lockdown for England The measures will come into force when the legal regulations are laid, probably tomorrow, but the PM urged people to follow them immediately. Primary and secondary schools will be shut from tomorrow until at least February half-term, with only the vulnerable and offspring of key workers allowed to go … Read more
Ireland is to return to a full lockdown for at least a month and will extent school holidays in a bid to curb a surge in the new mutant strain of COVID-19 which originated in the UK. Prime minister Micheal Martin announced on Wednesday that the virus is now spreading faster than all previous forecasts. Ireland … Read more
Mother-of-two, 51, falls to her death from fourth-floor London flat on Christmas morning after struggling to find a job for eight months due to the pandemic Sharon Anne Daly-O’Dwyer was spending Christmas with family in apartment The 51-year-old, from Shepherd’s Bush, west London, fell from the fourth-floor Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to … Read more
The Tier 4 areas of England from Boxing Day Surrey West Sussex East Sussex Hampshire (apart from the New Forest) Kent Buckinghamshire Berkshire All 32 London boroughs and the city of London. Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Luton, Hertfordshire Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire Oxfordshire Millions more families have been ordered into Tier 4 from Boxing … Read more
Huge raccoon plunges off 20ft-high ledge of a Manhattan building as rescuers catch it in a tarpaulin (but where did run off too?) The animal scaled the building around 100 Hudson Street in Tribeca, New York Footage shows the raccoon falling from 20-foot ledge on to a tarp held up below Group of rescuers had … Read more
Netflix stock is trading sharply lower after the streaming giant reported a slowdown in new subscribers over the summer, after a huge surge of signups in spring left demand tapped out. Shares of Netflix dropped as much as 6.54 percent in morning trading on Wednesday, one day after the streamer posted its biggest earnings miss … Read more
‘Sadiq ready for Tier Two beer garden life in his body warmer’: Twitter users have plenty to say about London mayor’s ‘coat-under-a-blazer situation’ as he plunges city into lockdown Sadiq Khan read a statement at City Hall wearing a puffer coat under a suit jacket The look prompted Twitter users to ask if London Assembly … Read more