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
Longest regularly scheduled domestic route in US is back as Hawaiian Airlines resumes services to Boston, New York and the rest of its 13-city mainland network in time for the holidays The airline, Hawaii’s flag carrier, announced Wednesday those services would resume in December Hawaiian Airlines first introduced the arduous 5,095-mile journey between Honolulu and … Read more
Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky ‘make history’ by releasing the first Tasmanian devils on mainland Australia in 3,000 years By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:26 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 10:28 BST, 5 October 2020 Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky have helped release eleven Tasmanian devils into … Read more
Italy, Denmark and mainland Greece could be added to coronavirus quarantine list this week following surge in infections Denmark’s number of cases in seven days is 28.7 infections per 100,000 people This is above the Government’s threshold of 20 but less than the UK’s 31.5 Italy yesterday logged 16.5 cases per 100,000 residents and Greece … Read more
A lost Viking waterway that ran across Orkney and connected the North Atlantic and Scapa Flow 1,000 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists. The canal-like network would have provided a shallow water routeway through which the Norse/Vikings were able to haul both their boats and heavy goods, such as grain. Similar navigable waterways are … Read more
A ship carrying 600 asylum seekers has departed from Lesbos to a closed camp in northern Greece amid the coronavirus crisis. The migrants arrived at the port of Mytilene in the Greek island of Lesbos, ahead of their departure with the ship, named ‘Aqua Blue’. Clashes broke out overnight on Greece’s border with Turkey after … Read more