Britons are expected to flock to beaches over the next few days to enjoy this week’s mini-heatwave after the Government confirmed families from London and elsewhere can now travel to the seaside. People in England will be taking advantage of the relaxation of lockdown measures as outdoor gatherings and sport events resume, with highs of … Read more
Mixed race triplets born to a white mother and desperate to trace their father’s ancestry discovered they are of West African and Irish descent on an emotional episode of BBC2’s DNA Family Secrets. Peter, David and Phillip, 35, who now live in County Antrim, were born in Merseyside and moved to Northern Ireland as children after … Read more
Plant fossils, twigs and leaves have been discovered under a mile of ice on Greenland, suggesting the area was free of ice within the last million years. Scientists from the University of Vermont have called it a ‘stunning’ discovery, with some of the discovered vegetation looking as if it had ‘died yesterday’. The discovery was … Read more
Greenpeace activists have built a new underwater ‘boulder barrier’ in a protected area of the English Channel to stop a hugely harmful fishing practice. In total 18 boulders, each weighing about three tonnes and carrying the name of a celebrity endorser, were dropped this week from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Offshore Brighton marine protected … Read more
The weekly cost of staying at a care home is £848 on average but varies dramatically across the country, new research reveals. At the extremes, prices range from £1,488 a week in Islington in London to £621 in Blaenau Gwent in Wales, according to figures from insurer Legal & General. The local cost breakdown comes … Read more
Mystery ‘triangle shape’ is spotted in Area 51 hangar by pilot who took 1,000 photos during Christmas Day flypast of secretive military base in Nevada Gabe Zeifman, a private pilot and amateur photographer, spent Christmas Day flying his Cessna 150 plane over the Nevada Test and Training Range The hangar is just south of the main … Read more
The ‘Last Ice Area’ is a narrow band of ice that covers about a million square miles across the Northern coasts of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which has long withstood the effects of climate change – until now. A team from the University of Toronto found that the ice arches holding the frozen … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks are spiralling fastest in former Tier One areas and the North of England, official data has revealed. Of the ten councils registering the biggest surges in Covid infections in the most recent fortnight, eight were in the North of England — including three in Cumbria and three in Liverpool. The remaining two were … Read more
Anyone who has travelled to Manchester from any Tier 4 area should isolate for ten days even if they don’t have Covid symptoms, health officials warn Greater Manchester’s 10 Directors of Public Health issued guidance on Monday Isolation period should start from December 19 and visitors must remain indoors No visitors should be then allowed … Read more
All but three places will be plunged into Tier Three or Two (shown in red and orange) when England’s national shutdown ends on Wednesday Number 10 today published a breakdown of England’s lockdown tiers in a desperate attempt to justify the brutal curbs to the public as Boris Johnson announced all but three places of … Read more