Following a flurry of accusations of bullying, Home Secretary Priti Patel was defended last week in a statement by 100 allies, including election guru Sir Lynton Crosby and William Shawcross, former chief of the Charity Commission. Patel faces a Cabinet Office investigation into the allegations (which she denies) after Sir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office’s … Read more
A group of friends who save up all year for a boozy holiday in Benidorm have revealed their regret after swapping holidays with three wealthy retired women, deeming the £15K luxury trip to St Lucia ‘boring’ and ‘lonely’. Friends Sally-Anne, Antia, Lisa and Lisa, from Kentish Town, London, are swept away to St Lucia for … Read more
Lens maker for cataracts, Rayner Surgical Group, on market for £400million By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 A company that makes replacement lenses for cataract patients has been put up for sale by its private equity owners with a price tag … Read more
Judge rules that Reddit doesn’t have to disclose the real identity of a user who criticized a Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watch Tower organization on the forum A US District Court judge in San Francisco upheld a Reddit users right to privacy The user, Darkspilver, had criticized the Jehovah’s Witnesses approach to fundraising through their magazine The … Read more
Military robots win search and rescue competition as they search for survivors in underground power plant after gas leak DARPA hosted a search and rescue competition for autonomous robots The winning team, from JPL programmed 12 autonomous robots to find warm mannequins standing in for human survivors, and a lost cell phone in the ruins … Read more
Free-to-use cash machines could disappear across UK within two years unless Government steps in and forces banks to maintain them, consumer group Which? warns Free-to-use cash machines face disappearing within two years, it is claimed Estimated 9,500 free ATMs were removed or introduced charges since 2018 Banks are pushing people to switch from cash to … Read more
Chairman of the ERG Steve Baker resigns as he says the battle for Brexit has been won Steve Baker declared victory as he resigned from the European Research Group He said the PM had ‘the policy, the mandate and the majority’ to deliver Brexit The Wycombe MP said he wanted to spend more time with … Read more