Windfall for women in state pension scandal: Hundreds of thousands will receive letters stating they are owed £13,500 over admin blunders dating back 30 years Scandal will cost the Work and Pensions Department estimated £3bn to rectify Team of 155 civil servants is working through files to trace every woman affected Relates to failure to … Read more
Windfall for women in state pension scandal: Hundreds of thousands will receive letters stating they are owed £13,500 over admin blunders dating back 30 years Scandal will cost the Work and Pensions Department estimated £3bn to rectify Team of 155 civil servants is working through files to trace every woman affected Relates to failure to … Read more
Ghana becomes first country in the world to receive vaccines through UN COVAX scheme: 600,000 AstraZeneca jabs arrive from India Ghana received the 600,000 vaccines from the Serum Institute of India The vaccines, delivered by UNIFEF, are part of the first wave of Covid-19 jabs that COVAX is sending to several developing countries Ghana is … Read more
Europe’s vaccine chaos is set to continue into the spring with as many as 90million doses missing from AstraZeneca shipments in the second quarter of 2021. An EU official involved in talks with the firm says the company has warned that it may deliver only half of its promised 180million doses from April to June. … Read more
Hundreds of frail and elderly people are forced to queue in the freezing cold to receive Covid jabs at Plymouth Argyle football stadium as relatives blast ‘absolute shambles’ Queue compared to match day-style crowds, with some waiting up 90 minutes Storm Darcy has brought snow and freezing temperatures across the UK today Relatives of those … Read more
Hungary is set to receive its first shipment of the Chinese coronavirus jab Sinopharm by the end of the month Hungary plans to start administering doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine this week It has ordered enough supplies from Beijing to inoculate 2.5 million people Comes after its PM, Viktor Orban, criticised EU’s rollout for … Read more
Children who receive a seasonal flu jab are less likely to suffer symptoms from a COVID-19 infection, promising study finds US-based researchers looked at a group of more than 900 children in Arkansas Half were vaccinated with the seasonal flu jab and half had not been given it Data shows children that have received a … Read more
Embattled fashion chain French Connection has received two separate takeover approaches from potential suitors, it told investors this morning. The retailer revealed that it had been approached regarding a takeover by retail investor Spotlight Brands, with backing from restructuring and investment group Gordon Brothers. It has also received another potential proposal from brand investment platform … Read more
Non-league Chesterfield SLAMMED for ‘immoral’ queue-jumping as players and staff are given leftover Covid-19 vaccines… with some as young as 21 receiving the jab! The Covid-19 vaccine is currently reserved for over-70s as the rollout continues Non-league Chesterfield received leftover Pfizer jab from a local medical centre Medical staff were ‘horrified’ at the plot to … Read more
Regina King makes history as only the second African-American woman to receive a best director nod at the Golden Globes Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay was the only other African-American woman to receive a best director nomination back in 2014 It’s especially impressive considering that the critically-acclaimed Amazon drama marked the 50-year-old Oscar winner’s feature directorial … Read more