The full list of hospitals where Pfizer jabs will be given to the first British recipients were revealed last night as the UK military carried out dry-run drills for the country’s biggest-ever mass vaccination. Fifty trusts are poised to roll out Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine when the first of 40 million doses are administered from next week, … Read more
Graduate, 24, of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen apprentice programme is jailed for two years for drug dealing after falling in with county lines gang to feed heroin addiction Ben Taylor, 24, graduated from Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen scheme in London in 2015 He then became homeless and turned to drugs – eventually becoming a dealer Involved in … Read more
Listeners slam ‘woke’ BBC R4’s Today programme for replacing the word fishermen with ‘fisherpeople’ – despite women making up just 2.7% of trawler crews Europe editor Katya Adler used the gender neutral description on air yesterday Critics argued that people working on trawlers are overwhelmingly men Ashley Mullenger, who calls herself the ‘female fisherman’, joined … Read more
Singer Sinead O’Connor has announced that she has cancelled her upcoming tour dates to enter a ‘one-year programme for trauma and addiction’ starting next week. The Irish singer, 53, took to Twitter to reveal her news on Tuesday, after saying she had ‘lost someone beloved’ and had endured a ‘traumatic six years.’ Sinead admitted she … Read more
Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith reveals she skips breakfast and lunch when judging the programme to keep in shape By Dominique Hines For The Daily Mail Published: 01:58 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 02:07 GMT, 2 November 2020 Prue Leith skips breakfast and lunch when judging The Great British Bake Off – to … Read more
Mass testing and a better contact tracing regime could bring the UK’s coronavirus outbreak under control, SAGE has claimed in another dig at Number 10’s bungling test and trace system. Government scientific advisers endorsed Boris Johnson’s £100billion Operation Moonshot, which would see 10million people tested a day regardless of whether they have symptoms, in a … Read more
NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has admitted the programme is not a ‘silver bullet’ for solving the coronavirus crisis as Michael Gove defended giving police access to self-isolation data. Baroness Harding said the £12 billion programme is ‘undoubtedly a very important’ part of the Government’s efforts to tackle the spread of infection. But she … Read more
A council who published documents over its tree felling programme in the middle of the night to ‘avoid scrutiny’ has apologised for its ‘lack of… honesty’. Sheffield City Council was forced to issue a public apology after a report found it acted with a ‘lack of transparency, openness and, on occasion, honesty’ in the … Read more
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for ‘its efforts to combat global hunger’ By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 10:02 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 10:08 BST, 9 October 2020 The World Food Programme has been announced as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its … Read more
Struggling test and trace programme now forced to bring in super-management consultants from KPMG to try and get back on track Government is preparing to draft in a new team to bolster the £10billion scheme Consultants are expected to start within 72 hours and remain for six months It comes as Boris Johnson sounded Covid … Read more