Customer service fiasco at National Savings & Insurance rumbles on – seven weeks since we reported it was in meltdown By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 23:22 GMT, 14 November 2020 The customer service fiasco at National Savings & Insurance rumbles on – seven weeks … Read more
The humiliated wife of actor Dominic West suffered further embarrassment on Tuesday after a link to her official website led users to a blank page. Catherine Fitzgerald was said to be ‘heartbroken’ after pictures emerged of her 50-year old husband publicly cavorting with single actress Lily James, 31, during a recent trip to Rome. But … Read more
£5bn cost of the wind turbine fiasco: Botched eco scheme will push up household bills for 20 years after blundering officials set high subsidy rate Turbine-owners in Northern Ireland were paid over the odds in energy subsidies One turbine reaps £375,000 a year yet only produces electricity worth £51,000 Last week, Boris Johnson hailed wind … Read more
The boss of Virgin Atlantic is ramping up calls for mass Covid testing to be introduced to help revive the aviation industry and the economy. Describing the past six months as ‘devastating and humbling’, Shai Weiss warned of an extended recession and soaring unemployment without a fully functioning test regime. Aviation has pinned its hopes … Read more
White House testing is revealed as fiasco – but is STILL being used as proof aides are ‘negative’ for COVID while masks for most workers will still be considered a ‘personal choice’ The White House’s testing infrastructure as the president, first lady, White House staff and several reporters have tested positive for the coronavirus The … Read more
Migrant flight farce: Fiasco as specially chartered plane flies just ONE failed asylum seeker out of the UK instead of 30… after last-minute legal challenge blocked the other removals A charter plane yesterday flew a single Channel migrant back to France The flight, paid for by British taxpayers, went ahead without 29 other removals Lawyers … Read more
Testing fiasco threatens schools chaos: Teachers call for coronavirus screening as thousands of pupils across the country are sent home from lessons… but the demand is set to be low on ministers’ ‘priority list’ Almost every school in the country is now suffering virus-related problems, unions warn Teachers fear a ‘lockdown by default’ as thousands … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus testing system has come under intense scrutiny in the past 24 hours amid reports that doctors, nurses and people living in the country’s worst-hit towns are unable to get tested for the virus. Government officials including Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the testing boss at NHS Test and Trace have blamed ‘lab capacity’ … Read more
Britain’s Covid-19 testing fiasco has left doctors and nurses unable to work because they can’t get checked for the illness, preventing the NHS getting back to normal. NHS staff are having to leave the frontline to self-isolate because they or family members cannot book a test. NHS Providers says that if the shortage is not … Read more
London’s Covid testing fiasco: Phone operators tell callers there are NO home test kits or drive-thru slots and nearest place to get tested is 200 miles away in BRADFORD (despite centres sitting empty in capital) One caller was told there was nothing available in London to drive-thru or post But when she went to Twickenham … Read more