Strictly semi-finalists Janette Manrara and HRVY have scrapped a sexy rumba routine this week because of their 16-year age gap. Professional Janette, 37, told MailOnline performing a sensual dance with HRVY, 21, ‘didn’t feel right’ as the singer is more like her ‘little brother.’ In an exclusive interview, Janette admitted trying to teach HRVY, who’s … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he ‘can’t wait’ to scrap tier restrictions and that vaccine roll-out could mean they are lifted by end of MARCH Matt Hancock previously said he would snitch on neighbour’s breaking rules Now he says the vaccine’s early roll-out could end ‘these blasted restrictions’ The first vaccinations were shipped to 50 … Read more
Today Money Mail lays bare your distraught reaction to NS&I’s proposal to axe Premium Bond cheques and pay winnings direct into bank accounts instead. This means customers must provide their bank details online or over the phone, which many savers say they are just not comfortable doing. The Treasury-backed bank yesterday bowed to pressure from … Read more
More than 40 Tory MPs have warned Rishi Sunak that axing duty-free shopping could cost up to 50,000 jobs. They say the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the system next year will make Britain less attractive to international visitors. The move could affect not just London, but airports and shopping centres throughout the country including in … Read more
Saudi Arabia said today it will scrap labour laws that prevent millions of low-paid migrants workers from leaving their employers in the Kingdom. Human rights groups have repeatedly called on the country to abolish its ‘kafala’ sponsorship system, branded by critics as a modern form of slavery that binds workers to their Saudi employers. The … Read more
Wales should scrap GCSE exams next summer and instead award grades on pupils’ coursework and assessments, a testing regulator has said. Qualifications Wales said A-Level students should continue to be graded as normal, but younger pupils should face a relaxed system. It comes after the summer’s exam season turned into a fiasco as tests were … Read more
Post Office cash machines crisis: Mail bosses are to scrap a THIRD of its 2,000 ATMs in new blow to elderly and vulnerable Post Office will invest £16million to equip 1,400 machines with latest technology Customers still be able to withdraw cash over the counter at 11,500 post offices But many Britons do not know … Read more
To say the HMS Hermes had a difficult start to life would be understating the fact – construction on the aircraft carrier, initially dubbed HMS Elephant, began in 1944 during World War Two, but conflict ended before she had been completed. Her hull then sat in the dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness until 1953, when it was … Read more
Cruise ships from Britain and the United States are being scrapped at a Turkish dock after the multi-billion pound industry was smashed by the coronavirus crisis. The coronavirus cruise liner graveyard at the port in Aliaga, a town 30 miles north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast, bustled with work again on Friday as scrapyard workers … Read more
Leading state and private schools including Eton launch joint fight to scrap ‘unfair and unreliable’ GCSE exams More than 20 top education names have joined together to write an open letter They claim the system ‘leaves in its wake a trail of stress and unfairness’ Former education secretary who introduced GCSEs in 1988, Lord Baker, … Read more