The University of Nottingham has said students breaking Covid rules could be ‘fast-tracked’ to exclusion after police broke up a 200-strong party at a hall of residence. A police investigation is ongoing after footage surfaced showing huge crowds dancing to loud music – before spilling out to the front of the halls to continue the … Read more
Britain’s beleaguered Test and Trace system is performing worse than ever, official data today revealed. More than 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down in the last week of September. This is the equivalent of 32 per cent of all 100,000 contacts the service tried to reach. And a further 17,000 … Read more
The first people smuggler convicted using evidence from surveillance drones over the Channel was jailed yesterday. Rebwar Ahmed, 36, was filmed by an ‘eye in the sky’ unmanned aircraft at the helm of a rigid-hulled inflatable boat crossing from France. The Iraqi’s conviction came as the Daily Mail was granted exclusive access to the nerve … Read more
Malaysian sniffer dogs tracked missing British girl Nora Quoirin’s scent to an abandoned fishing hut – but found no scent at the villa window she is thought to have climbed through, her inquest heard. Nora vanished from the Dusun rainforest resort, around 45 miles from Kuala Lumpur, where she had been staying with her parents … Read more
Rare ‘boomerang’ earthquake is tracked across the Atlantic ocean for the first time – shedding light on the kind of devastation these events could wreak on land With a boomerang earthquake the path of the quake runs back at a faster rate Researchers used underwater monitoring stations to track a earthquake in 2016 The team … Read more
The FBI were able to track down three hackers who pulled off the largest Twitter breach in history because they were ‘extremely sloppy’ with how they moved their Bitcoin transactions around. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, of Tampa, Florida; Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida; and Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K. have all be charged … Read more
The NHS’ flagship test and trace system tracked down less than half of positive patients’ ‘contacts’ in the first three days of its launch, figures suggested last night. A leaked report claimed that virus sufferers had provided details of 4,634 people they might have infected, of whom just 1,749 were texted or emailed. The Department … Read more
Britons have been on an emotional rollercoaster during the coronavirus lockdown, from the high of initial isolation to the low of the Prime Minister going into hospital. A study of more than 55,000 people found that the way they feel when they wake up in the morning has evolved as the lockdown has progressed. Researchers working … Read more