Tom Walker is living in a blur. He has gone from struggling musician who couldn’t pay the rent to having a No 1 album, winning a Brit award and travelling the world. ‘I went to New Zealand for just one day to play a gig,’ he says. ‘I mean, who does that?’ Over the past … Read more
An evacuation flight carrying passengers who were on the coronavirus-riddled Diamond Princess has taken off with 32 British and Europeans onboard, after they spent almost 20 days trapped on the doomed vessel. The amount of people flying back to Britain is less than half of the 78 UK nationals who were trapped on the ship as … Read more
Scientists create internet connected biodegradable PAPER, which can be used to collect data about moisture levels in soil without any toxic e-waste A team of scientists have created an thin sheet of paper they call nanopaper The nanopaper is one millimeter thick and can transmit data to the internet It also has a moisture sensor … Read more
More than a QUARTER of the world’s oceans need protecting urgently ‘to give marine species space to live free from human impacts’, scientists claim At least 26 per cent of oceans should be given special conservation protection To provide safe spaces for sea species they suggest an area of 3.3 million miles Researchers mapped the … Read more
The evacuation of dozens of UK nationals trapped onboard a cruise quarantined off the coast of Japan due to a coronavirus outbreak has been delayed by several hours because the British Government cannot cobble together a concrete plan. Ministers yesterday announced a flight would finally leave Tokyo on Friday evening local time and fly 74 Brits who’ve been … Read more
Don’t visit your GP if you think you have coronavirus, NHS says – stay home instead, self-isolate and ring 111 Health chiefs want suspected coronovirus patients to self isolate and dial 111 Officials fear attending a surgery or pharmacy will help spread the deadly virus So far 10,483 people have been tested in the UK … Read more
A UK passenger still in isolation after the Japan cruise ship coronavirus outbreak said today that he and his wife are being ‘really well cared for’ hours after a fellow British traveller died from the disease. David Abel and his wife Sally were both on board the ship, where more than 700 tourists became infected, … Read more
The armed forces along with the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance volunteers could be drafted in to support the NHS after 23 test positive for coronavirus in the UK. Military doctors and nurses would be on hand at hospitals where staff are too ill to work or are self-isolating, under ministerial plans for … Read more
Bob Weighton is spry, beady, dryly funny and has better hearing than me. He pops down to Waitrose, does his own cooking, reads avidly, writes poetry, makes furniture and ornaments out of recycled materials, is well-versed in current affairs and has only recently given up his ecological column in Church News. Which, had he been 80, … Read more
Emergency laws to tackle coronavirus are being rushed in after the outbreak claimed its first British life yesterday. The measures will be announced next week to ensure public services and the transport network can keep operating if the crisis worsens. The unnamed British victim died in Japan after contracting the virus on the Diamond Princess … Read more