Tokyo 2020: Chinese Olympic Committee offers vaccine doses to athletes competing at Games

BREAKING NEWS: Tokyo Olympics bosses agree deal to buy Covid vaccines from China to get all 30,000 athletes jabbed and make sure the Games go ahead, despite hosts Japan lagging behind on vaccinations for the public The rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics are due to get underway on July 23 The IOC has urged countries to … Read more

Chinese Olympic Committee offers vaccine doses to athletes competing at Tokyo 2020

BREAKING NEWS: Tokyo Olympics bosses agree deal to buy Covid vaccines from China to get all 30,000 athletes jabbed and make sure the Games go ahead, despite hosts Japan lagging behind on vaccinations for the public The rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics are due to get underway on July 23 The IOC has urged countries to … Read more

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offers 97% protection, Israel study finds

BREAKING NEWS: Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offers 97% protection and it shows 94% effectiveness against asymptomatic infections, Israel study finds Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE’s coronavirus vaccine prevented 97% of symptomatic cases, hospitalizations and deaths It was also 94% effective at blocking asymptomatic cases of infection  The results were announced by the health ministry in Israel, … Read more

State school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than ETON

State school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than ETON… as deputy head of the top private school writes to parents to defend its performance Brampton Manor, in Newham, announced 55 pupils received Oxbridge offers By comparison, Eton College, which Boris Johnson attended, secured 48 offers Eton sent a letter to parents explaining its … Read more

M&G offers hope to trapped savers as it plans to reopen property fund

M&G offers hope to trapped savers as it plans to reopen its long-suspended property fund By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:47 GMT, 9 March 2021 | Updated: 22:47 GMT, 9 March 2021 M&G has said it may soon reopen its long-suspended property fund, offering some relief to trapped savers. The investment firm … Read more

Russian colonel offers to conscript cheating boyfriends on International Women’s Day

Is your boyfriend cheating on you? Tell us and we’ll conscript him into the Russian Army: Colonel’s extraordinary offer on International Women’s Day Russian women urged to get revenge on cheating lovers by telling the army   Colonel Yury Khromov, 63, said errant partners could then be conscripted  Offering it up as a ‘gift’, he tells … Read more

Twitter: Bidding for CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet heats up as Malaysian investor offers $2.5MILLION

Bidding for Twitter’s first tweet, ‘just setting up my twttr’, is heating up as a Malaysian Bitcoin investor has offered $2.5 million for the 2006 post by CEO Jack Dorsey. Hakan Estavi — CEO of blockchain system firm Bridge — has outbid other prospective buyers including Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun. On Saturday, Mr Sun had … Read more

John Lewis offers online ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme

Department store giant John Lewis launches its first ever ‘buy now, pay later’ offer online to help satisfy a surge in demand for interest free credit By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2021 Department store giant John Lewis has launched its first … Read more

Author offers a deep dive into the world of baking as he grows his own wheat

FOOD SLOW RISE: A BREAD-MAKING ADVENTURE by Robert Penn (Particular £17.99, 240 pp)  Is there any smell more delicious than that of freshly baked bread? No wonder supermarkets pump the aroma through their stores to entice shoppers to spend more. As a nation we love our bread, gobbling nearly 12 million loaves a day. Humans … Read more

Boris Johnson offers to host EVERY European Championship game

Boris Johnson offers to host EVERY European Championship game after UK hit the milestone of vaccinating 20million people over the weekend Boris Johnson offered to host every European Championship game in Britain The UK hit the milestone of vaccinating 20 million people over the weekend As a result, the Prime Minister has offered out Britain’s stadiums to … Read more