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Airline industry carnage hits families but billionaires are sitting pretty
Billionaires’ wealth has increased during the pandemic while the aviation industry is mired in crisis. The thousands employed at...
Sanitary products non-essential? Wrong! Welsh government replies to shoppers after they share their shock on Twitter
People in Wales have been left confused and angry as shops and supermarkets interpret the government’s new lockdown rules banning the sale of ‘non-essential’ items.
Parents defend UK headmistress after she was forced to apologize for lesson on Black History Month, but won’t give their names
Parents have stepped up to defend the head teacher of a Kent boarding school after her groveling apology for offending students...
Former UK Brexit secretary reveals ‘disaster’ test and trace companies don’t face penalties for failures
Ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis has slammed the ‘systemic problem’ that protects ‘test and trace’ companies from financial penalties...
‘We’re not there yet’: British health minister dashes hopes AstraZeneca vaccine could be ready before Christmas
The British minister of health has rebuffed claims that a UK vaccine could be widely distributed in 2020, adding that his “central...
Amazon gets on ‘secretive’ UK government panel on post-Brexit supply rules while benefiting financially from own ‘advice’ – report
Online retail giant Amazon is ensuring a lucrative future in UK government contracts, guiding a “secretive” Cabinet Office panel...
London’s war on motorists isn’t helping anybody
Late one evening in Yangon in Myanmar a few years ago, I noticed a grey Morris Minor van patrolling the streets. It had an old-fashioned...
Apollo Investor Revolt Swells Over Black’s Epstein Ties
It keeps getting worse for Leon Black.
What Brexit will do to the City of London
THE FORTUNES of financial centres may swing less wildly than the markets they host, but swing they do. In the 2000s London threatened...
Facebook deploys aggressive measures to combat election unrest
Facebook executives are implementing emergency measures reserved for "at-risk" countries in a company-wide effort to bring down the online temperature.
Rishi Sunak’s new youth job scheme attacked as ‘sticking plaster’ that will fail to prevent mass unemployment
‘The numbers don’t stack up to the scale of the challenge. There will still be large-scale youth unemployment’
Joan Hocquard: Oldest person in Britain dies aged 112
Joan Hocquard, who drove ambulances during World War Two, died at her home on Saturday.
Royal Mail seeks record number of Christmas temps
Royal Mail is looking to fill a record number of temporary seasonal jobs due to a surge in online shopping during the pandemic.
Britons reportedly overwhelm phone lines & website in rush to cancel TV licenses
It appears that so many people want to cancel their TV licenses in Britain that the BBC cannot cope with the outflow. However,...
Shop bans local MP 'for life' after he voted against free school meals
A shop owner has banned his local MP ‘for life’ after the politician voted against extending free school meals for children over the holidays.
Baby dies after incorrectly inserted feeding tube pierced his heart
A baby died after a feeding tube was incorrectly inserted and pierced his heart, causing him to go into cardiac arrest and suffer brain damage.
7 different nicknames for London and what they actually mean
We've all heard of the Big Smoke, Square Mile and LDN but where did they originate from?
7 ways you can meet up with friends despite London’s Tier 2 lockdown
With the city now being classed as a Tier 2 high risk area, Londoners are adjusting to a new range of lockdown measures.
Fake negative COVID-19 tests are being sold in Britain
The UK began selling fake COVID-19 tests with negative results. The cost of such forged documents ranges from £ 50 to £ 150 (5-15...