Ex employee at firm that produced flammable insulation on Grenfell Tower admitted firm was ‘dishonest’ by ‘overengineering’ fire safety test to achieve pass Jonathan Roper worked as an assistant product manager for the firm Celotex Said firm ‘dishonest’ by ‘overengineering’ cladding fire safety test to get a pass Firm used second system pass to erroneously … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) effectively gave up trying to keep track of coronavirus, admitting it had failed to do so months ago, according to documents obtained by Forbes. ‘Most jurisdictions have been forced to abandon monitoring because the number of monitorees exceeds the capacity…As a result, critical data for CDC to … Read more
One child under five is admitted to hospital because of obesity every week, shocking NHS figures show There were 6,350 hospital admissions of boys up to age 19 with obesity in a year And this was even for higher for girls in the same age bracket at 11,900 cases The Government last month unveiled a strategy … Read more
French police investigate Rwandan refugee, 39, after he admitted arson attack on Nantes cathedral Rwandan refugee, 39, admitted he was responsible for the cathedral inferno Questioned for second time yesterday and confessed to fire early this morning Took 104 firefighters to tackle the blaze which started in three places on July 18 By Lydia Catling … Read more
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and her daughter have been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus. The actress, 46, had been isolating at home with her little girl Aaradhya, eight, but is said to have gone to a Mumbai hospital after they both ‘developed breathlessness’, reports the Times Of India. Just last Saturday Aishwarya’s husband Abhishek Bachchan, 44, and … Read more
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and her daughter have been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus. The actress, 46, had been isolating at home with her little girl Aaradhya, eight, but is said to have gone to a Mumbai hospital after they both ‘developed breathlessness’, reports the Times Of India. Just last Saturday Aishwarya’s husband Abhishek Bachchan, 44, and … Read more
They have become ‘add- icted’ to Twitter, that most ‘toxic’ of social media platforms, and seem to care more about their tweets ‘going viral’ than telling the truth. No, that isn’t a description of irresponsible, smartphone-obsessed teenagers. It is an indictment of senior BBC journalists, delivered in explosive fashion to a parliamentary committee this week … Read more
‘I’m feeling nauseous and weak’: Martin Lewis, 48, sparks coronavirus concern as he admits to ‘feeling under the weather’… yet assures he has ‘no fever and no cough’ The presenter, 48, announced he was feeling ‘nauseous and weak’ before presenting The Martin Lewis Money Show at 8.30pm alongside Angelica Bell He wrote on Twitter: ‘The … Read more
One in ten Covid-19 patients who have diabetes and are hospitalised die within a week, a study has suggested. Studies have repeatedly shown the condition is one of the high-risk conditions for developing a severe bout of the coronavirus. French researchers looked at the outcomes of 1,300 hospitalised Covid-19 patients across the country, all of … Read more
A shamed intensive care doctor who faced career ruin after he illicitly pocketed extra cash by secretly working at two hospitals at the same time has been allowed back to work after the NHS said it needed his help to treat Covid 19 patients. Consultant anaesthetist John Bleasdale, 54, had been suspended from duty for … Read more