Why Britain’s grocers are so weak and foreign investors spot a bargain opportunity in our supermarket shares ALEX BRUMMER Established grocers are weak because of the discounters Lidl and Aldi As they established a foothold in the UK, the native supermarkets had to fight back on price This battle has taken a terrible toll on … Read more
Healthy under-50s who live with an adult with a weak immune system will be added to the UK’s Covid vaccine priority list. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed today that all adults who share a home with someone who is immunocompromised will be offered a vaccine by mid-April. Those include people living with someone who is … Read more
Zayn Malik’s younger sister uploaded a screenshot of the vile abuse she received to her Instagram Stories on Monday morning. Waliyha, 22, who tied the knot to ex-con Junaid Khan, 24, in December – declared ‘haters are my motivators’ as she hit back at the hateful comments from the keyboard warrior, who said they hoped … Read more
Scattered reports have emerged of people being reinfected with coronavirus after testing negative – but one man may have had three ‘recurrences’ of COVID-19 over the course a gruelling, ultimately fatal, 154-day battle with the infection. In a case report, Brigham and Women’s Hospital physicians describe the struggle of a 45-year-old man who had a … Read more
Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the UK ‘is beginning to look weak’ and is being ‘pushed around’ over its failure to protect Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The British-Iranian dual national has been detained in Iran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government. Iranian officials … Read more
The weekend box office continued to show distressingly small grosses this week as Monster Hunter came out on top with a paltry $2.2 million. The video game adaptation didn’t have much new competition, as more theaters have recently closed due to the pandemic, including Boston theaters and many in Portland, Oregon, according to Deadline. Coming … Read more
Captain Tom’s favourite food! WW2 veteran reveals he likes ‘weak tea with plenty of milk and sugar’ despite being from Yorkshire adding that he loves tapas because he ‘ate it for free while living in Spain’ Captain Sir Tom Moore has revealed his favourite foods in a new interview Said he loves weak tea, tapas, … Read more
The Government’s assertion that 30 per cent of all coronavirus transmissions may be happening in pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants is based on ‘very weak’ evidence economists have said, after furious MPs accused ministers of ‘cobbling together’ the numbers to ‘justify’ their point of view. Experts from the Institute for Economic Affairs rubbished the official … Read more
Revealed: ‘Game-changing’ trick restores old, weakened carrots in five minutes flat – and all you need is a glass of water A Sydney business owner has shared an easy tip to restore old carrots On TikTok Lottie said to simply place the weak carrots in water for five minutes Carrots become dehydrated after days in … Read more
Drastic travel measures to control the coronavirus probably do work, a scientific review has concluded, but the evidence is still lacking. Academics looked over the findings of 36 studies which assessed whether airport screening, closing borders and quarantining travellers have any real impact on reducing cases. It found the most beneficial was shutting borders to … Read more