NSW storm causes Covid-19 vaccine to be delayed after flashfloods rip through Sydney

The wild weather battering New South Wales has delayed the state’s vaccine roll-out as torrential rain and flooding looks set to hammer the state’s east coast until Thursday.  The Federal Government said the once-in-a-century storm will affect the vaccine delivery of phase 1b to over 6.1million Australians ‘in Sydney and across multiple regional NSW locations’.    … Read more

Bake Off or rip off ? The £20 cake kits you have to make yourself

During this pandemic Britons have returned in their droves to their favourite comforting pastime: baking. Last year we made a billion loaves of bread, while visits to the BBC Food website soared by 74 per cent and The Great British Bake Off enjoyed record-breaking viewing figures in September. Now, as The Great Celebrity Bake Off … Read more

Bake Off or rip off ? The £20 cake kits you have to make yourself

During this pandemic Britons have returned in their droves to their favourite comforting pastime: baking. Last year we made a billion loaves of bread, while visits to the BBC Food website soared by 74 per cent and The Great British Bake Off enjoyed record-breaking viewing figures in September. Now, as The Great Celebrity Bake Off … Read more

Boris Johnson’s cycling tsar told council NOT to rip up hated Kensington High Street bike lane

Boris Johnson went ‘ballistic’ over the axing of a controversial cycling lane – and his cycling tsar pledged to send the Prime Minister riding down it if council leaders agreed not to remove it, it has been claimed.  The cycle lane in Kensington High Street has become the unlikely battleground in the row between cycling zealots … Read more

UK may avoid chlorinated chicken: Joe Biden ‘will rip up Donald Trump’s post-Brexit trade template’

Now UK may avoid chlorinated chicken: Joe Biden ‘will rip up Donald Trump’s post-Brexit trade template and ditch demands for the UK to lower its food standards’ Sources said Mr Biden will switch away from Mr Trump’s plan for a boutique deal  Trans-Pacific trade partnership where high food standards would be maintained Would spare Boris … Read more

Moment furious Tesco shopper yells ‘rip the f***ers off’ as he tears plastic from items in Wales

The Welsh fight back! Moment furious Tesco shopper yells ‘rip the f***ers off’ as he tears plastic sheets from ‘non-essential’ items banned in ‘disgraceful’ Covid crackdown by his government By James Gant For Mailonline Published: 14:30 BST, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 14:30 BST, 24 October 2020 A furious man has been filmed removing coverings … Read more

Shops could soon offer cashback without purchases as ministers plan to rip up EU rules

Shops could soon offer cashback without purchases as ministers plan to rip up EU rules In just three years 10,000 free ATMs are thought to have been removed  Consumers received £3.8billion in cashback last year when paying for items  EU law requires shops to be registered or authorised to provide cashback to customers who do … Read more

Fake tree branch wall hanging that is on sale for £180 is branded a rip off by outraged shoppers

Crate and Barrel is ridiculed for selling a £180 fake tree branch that offers customers a ‘modern, yet rustic’ decoration that ‘harkens back to the earliest Scandinavian winter’ Crate and Barrel is flogging the large, imitation conifer twig online for Christmas It is listed on the website for £110, however shipping to the UK costs … Read more

Rip the fashion rules to shreds…because we can all wear leopard! 

Forget trends, clothes should make us feel good about ourselves, says Erica That’s right, says fashion stylist Erica Davies, whose common sense (and sometimes surprising) advice will have you rethinking – and re-enjoying – the way you look and dress   For nearly 20 years, as the fashion editor on some of Britain’s biggest newspapers and … Read more

Man dies after three children ‘got caught in a rip tide’ in the sea on Welsh coast

Tragedy as hero father dies after saving his three children when they got caught in a rip-tide off Welsh beach Man in his 30s died after being flown to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor this afternoon Witnesses reported children in difficulty in water and a man swam to their aid Two of the children were taken to hospital … Read more