Big Lizzie goes sick: Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth postpones sailing from Portsmouth base after crew members test positive for Covid-19 Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive for coronavirus Around 100 further members of crew are isolating onboard and will be retested The vessel was due to … Read more
Countryside Alliance urges its army of members to join in litter-picking when Great British September Clean begins Countryside Alliance pledges to collect at least 10,000 pieces of rubbish Campaign group has long warned of pollution and litter blighting green areas The group wants members to sign up to huge clean up campaign backed by Mail By … Read more
Members of the US military have been accused of poor conduct for ‘cringeworthy’ thirst trap TikTok posts while in uniform. Several TikTok accounts owned by people who claim to be in the military have amassed millions of followers for their flirtatious, suggestive and provocative videos, posted to draw attention to their own attractiveness. An unknown … Read more
Florida man, 23, who lost SEVEN family members to coronavirus becomes first American dosed in Oxford’s final stage of US trial for its COVID-19 vaccine Jacob Serrano, 23, has become the first American dosed in the final phase of AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial Serrano has lost seven family members to COVID-19 and … Read more
England’s plans for double-header with Iceland and Denmark are thrown into chaos after at least THREE members of Gareth Southgate’s squad test positive for coronavirus… just over a week before their first game Gareth Southgate’s plans for next month’s double header are under threat England’s fixtures against Iceland and Denmark may have to be cancelled … Read more
Pension funds will be ordered to warn of the risks that climate change could have on members’ investments Pension funds will be required to report risks of climate change on investments Largest 100 schemes will have to publish climate risk disclosures by end of 2022 Therese Coffey said the plans are a ‘significant step’ in … Read more
Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said Monday, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups. The country’s ‘trace, test and treat’ approach has been held up as a global model in how to curb the virus. But over the weekend the capital and … Read more
Examination body Ofqual has blamed the government for the chaos over A-level results, with a leading member claiming ‘policy changes every 12 hours’ led to the debacle. Professor Tina Isaacs, who sits on Ofqual’s advisory group, warned that Thursday, when GCSE results are due to be released, could see ‘another wave’ of grades that do … Read more
Some Ofqual board members want to get rid of their own controversial A-level algorithm after almost 40 per cent of grades were downgraded by the system. Critics have complained the algorithm used by Ofqual penalised pupils in schools in more disadvantaged areas, while benefiting those in private schools. Some Ofqual board members now believe the … Read more
More than 40 members of the same family have tested positive for COVID-19 after a relative who knew she had the virus traveled in from another state to attend a funeral in Kentucky. Polly Williams, of Kermit, West Virginia, says she was desperately saddened to learn of the death of her cousin on June 30, but … Read more