2020 OLYMPIC GAMES Cancelled The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday 13 March – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta on Friday despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES Cancelled The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday 13 March – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta on Friday despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of … Read more
Laura Ashley in race to secure rescue deal and stave off collapse amid fears for 2,700 jobs as deserted high streets hit the business hard Fashion house Laura Ashley is racing to secure £15million cash-injection deal Company warned spread of coronavirus could keep shoppers off high street It has struggled to find favour with customers … Read more
The Australian government advised against attending ‘non-essential gatherings of persons of 500 or greater’ from Monday, amid fears of spreading coronavirus. But on Saturday, Phoebe Burgess and other stars braved the crowds at Rosehill Gardens’ Ladies Day, to mark the start of Sydney’s Autumn Racing Carnival. Following the pink dress code, Phoebe, 30, cut a … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
Health minister Nadine Dorries’ coronavirus diagnosis caused chaos in Parliament today as the race began to trace anyone that came into close contact with her over the two weeks in which she may have been carrying the infection but showed no symptoms. The 62-year-old Tory MP, who began feeling ill on Friday, is now in self-isolation for the … Read more
The shelves of supermarkets have been left empty this weekend as paranoid shoppers pulled products from stores as the panic surrounding the coronavirus intensified. Pictures from one Asda store in London showed aisles that had been stripped of toilet roll after the Department of Health and Social Care this afternoon confirmed there were 273 positive … Read more
A BBC drama series will depict a ‘reverse apartheid’ society where dark-skinned people run a culture that oppresses light-skinned people. The series is an adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s 2001 book Noughts + Crosses – a drama set in an alternate world where Britain, known as Albion, which has been ruled by the ‘Aprican Empire’ for 700 … Read more
McLaren have given fans their take on what the future looks like as they presented a futuristic race car that can take to the tracks in 2050. McLaren Applied Technologies, the sister company of the Formula One team, worked extensively gathering opinions from fans of the sport and now present the 2050: the MCLExtreme which features … Read more