Give Wally a wide berth! Tourists are told to avoid famous walrus off the Isles of Scilly because the heatwave is making him tetchy Wally the walrus has caused thousands of pounds of damage boarding boats He arrived on the Isles of Scily last month and temperatures have since risen The Cornwall Seal Group Research … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having vaccinated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the programme is roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the most recent day … Read more
Screwfix to open over 50 stores with around 600 new jobs being created across the UK and Ireland as DIY sector booms Screwfix said 80% of new stores and over 500 jobs will be generated in the UK The firm recently reached the £2bn annual sales mark for the first time ever DIY stores have … Read more
Not a single coronavirus case has been reported on the Isles of Scilly during the UK’s second wave and nobody has ever died of Covid there, official records show. The virus-free island off the coast of Cornwall has been kept under the same lockdown rules as the rest of England during that time, but official … Read more
Tonic boom! Drone successfully flies NHS supplies from the mainland to the Isles of Scilly for the first time – before being sent back with local GIN It marks the first drone freight delivery between commercial airports in the UK Drones could potentially now carry items including medical supplies The aircraft was returned back to the … Read more
Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Sail around the British Isles with TV star Liz Bonnin By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 GMT, 28 November 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 28 November 2020 If you’re keen to start planning your next adventure to put 2020 in the rear-view mirror, look no further than taking … Read more
The Isles of Scilly were once just a single island, before soaring sea levels submerged much of the land to create the archipelago we know today. Now, there are more than 140 chunks of land which constitute the Isles, but around 5,000 years ago they were a single land mass. Researchers, led by a team … Read more
Prince William and Kate take their children Charlotte, George and Louis on a down-to-earth staycation to rented cottage on the Isles of Scilly Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went on a family holiday to the Isles of Scilly The took George, seven, Charlotte, five, and Louis, two, away to a stone cottage The weather was … Read more
Luton, Wolverhampton and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were the only three places in England to record a fall in Covid-19 infection rates over the past week – and only one of them is in a local lockdown. Wolverhampton, where residents are not allowed to meet friends and family in each other’s homes or … Read more
Continental drift, I seem to recall from geography lessons at school, is the theory of how land masses shift position over aeons. But the term could also be used to describe the ritual Gadarene rush to over-crowded, over-developed hot spots around the world every summer. At least, that’s what used to happen and I dare … Read more