Covid: Pre-departure travel tests have outlived their usefulness
Transport secretary says day two PCRs will be replaced by lateral flow tests The current Covid testing system for people travelling to England has “outlived its usefulness”, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says, as Omicron is now “widespread and worldwide”. Ahead of a rule change later this week, he said the system – introduced to slow […]
Hull hospital uses VR headsets to give parents pregnancy insight
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust The VR headsets allow new parents to feel what it is like “to be in the birth centre, on the labour ward or in the operating theatre” An NHS trust is using virtual reality to give pregnant mothers and their partners an insight into giving birth. Hull and […]
Meet the stylist who makes vegan food for your hair
You might get a coffee and a biscuit at most salons, but at one hairdressers in Waterlooville, Hampshire, it is your hair that can a get a whole meal. Claire Alker freshly prepares all her dyes, shampoos and conditioners for her customers, and they are all vegan. Claire says it is a return to our […]
Donald Trump calls Bitcoin ‘a scam against the dollar’
Getty Images Former US President Donald Trump has told Fox Business that he sees Bitcoin as a “scam” affecting the value of the US dollar. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” Mr Trump said. “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.” He added that he wanted the dollar to […]
Why lion cubs are turning up across Europe
Getty Images Experts say buyers are drawn in by the cute looks of lion cubs Police officers are used to finding people hiding in unusual places for unusual reasons. But one man gave law enforcement a shock in Paris earlier this week. Police found another lion cub in a flat in the city last year […]
AI-assisted recycling centre set to launch in Coventry
Sherbourne Recycling The facility is a joint effort between eight councils in the West Midlands A new multimillion-pound recycling facility in Coventry is to use robots and AI technology to sort rubbish. Sherbourne Recycling, based at Whitley Depot, is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK. It was founded by eight […]
Gove backs seasonal workers scheme for UK farms after Brexit
BBC Profitability depended on access to labour, Mr Gove said The government would support a special deal for EU farm workers after Brexit, Michael Gove has signalled. The environment secretary said the case for a seasonal agricultural workers scheme after the UK leaves the EU next year was “compelling.” Agriculture needed access to foreign workers […]
Three men accuse Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of rape and sexual assault in new lawsuits
Three more men have accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of rape and sexual assault in new lawsuits alleging the rapper drugged them with laced drinks and assaulted them while they were unconscious. The complaints, filed separately in New York State Supreme Court on Thursday, involve incidents that allegedly occurred between 2019 and 2022. Two of the […]
After Assad’s cruelty, Syrians seek dead loved ones
BBC Syrians have come to the hospital in Damascus looking to find missing loved ones On a painted wall outside Damascus’s Mustahed Hospital are photographs of the faces of dead men. A constantly changing crowd of people examine them, squinting against the low winter sun at men who look as if they died in great […]
Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
Getty Images Yet again it seems that now is not the time to add to the burden of food importers, with more post-Brexit red tape and charges. Ministers this week further delayed the imposition of post-Brexit checks and charges on food imported from the European Union. It was the fifth delay to planned changes to […]