Housing market has its best ever week outside London as buyers flood back after lockdown By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 00:05 BST, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 00:05 BST, 15 June 2020 The housing market had its best ever week outside London when buyers flooded back after lockdown, according to figures out … Read more
An abundance of spring flowers, such as daffodils, crocuses and tulips, could be fuelling summer droughts, scientists claim, based on new computer simulations. The unusually warm and sunny conditions experienced in Spring 2018 boosted flower growth, and therefore depleted moisture in the soil just before summer hit. This plant-driven transfer of water to the atmosphere … Read more
Easyjet shares took off after it became the latest airline to unveil savage job cuts. In an effort to survive the coronavirus crisis, the budget carrier will axe as many as 4,500 staff – or 30 per cent of its 15,000-strong workforce. It also confirmed it will restart flights across the UK and France in … Read more
The revelation that Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s chief adviser, drove from Islington in London to County Durham during lockdown restrictions with his wife suffering from coronavirus has been headline-grabbing news since Friday. Some have questioned if the 264-mile journey was feasible in his diesel Land Rover Discovery Sport without having to stop for fuel after … Read more
President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his conspiracy theory hinting that Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough is responsible for the death of Lori Klausutis who worked for him when he was in Congress. ‘A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough. So a young marathon runner just happened to faint in his office, … Read more
Google says it will stop providing custom AI and machine learning tools to help fossil fuel companies operate their extraction operations Goole will stop building custom AI tools to help fossil fuel companies The announcement came in response to a Greenpeace report that criticized the close relationship between cloud service providers and the gas and … Read more
Inflation plunges to four-year low as fuel costs nosedive – but prices of toys, puzzles, computer games and WHISKY rise as families try to make lockdown more bearable The CPI rate of inflation tumbled from 1.5% in March to 0.8% in April, ONS says Fall largely triggered by the reduction in petrol prices amid global … Read more
Temporary care workers helped to fuel Britain’s coronavirus crisis in care homes, a damning Government study has found. Agency staff working in multiple homes may have unwittingly infected thousands of elderly and vulnerable residents without being tested for the virus. In some cases ‘bank workers’ – used to fill temporary vacancies – were standing in … Read more
Covid testing kits fuel sales boom at Novacyt as it racks up revenues of more than £90m By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 May 2020 A British producer of coronavirus testing kits expects ‘significant demand’ to continue for the rest of the year … Read more
Cindy Friedman, the epidemiologist who is leading the CDC’s coronavirus cruise ship task force, told Bloomberg Businessweek in an explosive interview that the actions of Carnival Cruises amid the pandemic has put a ‘huge strain’ on the United States Carnival Cruises helped fuel the coronavirus pandemic by still sailing its fleet of ships even when … Read more