Nicola Sturgeon says lockdown is creating an ‘economic emergency’ as she announces she will spend £33 million towards helping young people and lone parents back to work in Scotland once restrictions ease Nicola Sturgeon said that she will spend £33 million towards unemployment She was speaking at Scottish Government coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh Announced 2,134 patients … Read more
Big banks refusing to disclose how they are helping firms in Covid-19 pandemic By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 22 April 2020 A poll found that Lloyds (run by Antonio Horta-Osorio) and Barclays were the least helpful banks Some of Britain’s biggest banks are … Read more
Prue Leith appeared on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday to talk about helping her adopted daughter find her biological parents in Cambodia for a new documentary. The 80-year-old Bake Off star had said she was reticent to go to Cambodia at first because they ‘nearly killed her daughter’ but said the experience was a positive … Read more
British tech start-up helping to train front-line staff at NHS’s new emergency hospital in London to detect coronavirus By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 A British tech start-up is helping to train front-line staff at the NHS’s new emergency hospital in … Read more
A nurse who helped a dying pensioner with coronavirus symptoms get to the hospital after the pair had been involved in a crash has been offerd a new car. Mental health nurse Lucy Duncan, 24, was driving her Fiat 500X home from a 12-hour shift at Wigan Infirmary last Thursday, when her car was hit … Read more
Maps of fever readings from across the country seem to indicate that strict social distancing measures may be helping reduce cases of the novel coronavirus. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has uploaded data from hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers connected to the Internet. The firm can’t track the spread of … Read more
Junior Doctor and Miss England winner Dr Bhasha Mukherjee is set to arrive back in the UK tomorrow morning after getting stuck in India during the coronavirus pandemic. Like many other Britons in the country Dr Mukherjee, from Derby, found herself unable to get home when the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled flights and imposed … Read more
Prostate cancer is the growth of tumours in the prostate gland. Only men have a prostate, which is a walnut-sized gland between the rectum and the penis which creates a fluid to be mixed with sperm to create semen. How many people does it kill? More than 11,800 men a year – or one every … Read more
Retired general who ‘helped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smuggle 250 TONS of cocaine into the US every year’ is arrested Retired Venezuelan army general Cliver Alcalá was charged with conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and associated firearms He allegedly helped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ship 250 tons of cocaine a year into the … Read more
Notorious drugs lord Pablo Escobar could be inadvertently helping save hippos from extinction, from beyond the grave. When the cocaine kingpin was shot dead in late 1993, four hippos he brought to his private estate in Colombia were left to roam. Since then, their numbers have grown to an estimated 80 to 100 and the … Read more