UK weather: Met Office issue warning for ‘persistent’ snow New weather charts show an area of cloud and precipitation arriving from the southwest could cause widespread snow across the country. Swathes of snow will sweep across the UK from northern Scotland to the South Coast of England, a distance of roughly 550 miles, on February 14.   WXCharts’ snow depth models […]

Bones found at a Wetherspoon pub could date back to an old monastery which once stood on the same land, it is . Builders were called to the Picture House in Stafford for major repairs after the pub took a heavy battering from Storm Christoph last month which left it flooded. A startling discovery however forced the workmen to down […]

ALL adults in the UK are on track to receive both jabs of a coronavirus vaccine by August this year, it's reported. The UK has already given out more than 10 million Covid vaccines with an average of almost 400,000 Brits receiving a jab every day. Now internal Government projections show that all adults could be vaccinated by the end […]

Doctors refuse to work across Myanmar in protest over military coup as ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’ group gets 150,000 supporters within 24 hours Myanmar doctors are refusing non-emergency work in protest against the coup Online protest groups are growing but there has been little action on the streets Tanks and soldiers are patrolling cities after Monday’s military putsch  Army chief Min […]

Cape Cod homes are washed into the sea by powerful Nor’easter that dumped three feet of snow on the Northeast – as two more winter storms are forecast to batter the region this week At least three homes were condemned along the Massachusetts coastline on Tuesday One house in Cape Cod collapsed onto the beach after its foundations were pounded by […]

Washington: A coronavirus mutation that appears to limit the protection of vaccines against infection has appeared in the United Kingdom, which is already struggling with a highly transmissible and apparently more lethal virus variant. The worrisome mutation, at a site on the virus RNA called E484K, has drawn scrutiny from infectious-disease experts, who have given it the nickname “Eeek”. In […]

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He’s baaack! Just as we had gotten used to the idea that a so-called religious bigot had been awarded Australia’s highest honour for being Australia’s greatest ever tennis player of any gender, another religious figure, with a similar antipathy for homosexuals as Margaret Court AC, is in the news. Yes, Izzy Folau, having been banished by Rugby Australia, is looking […]

David Jones has decided to close its Wellington store in June 2022. A spokesperson confirmed the move, saying it was in line with its retail network strategy. Rumours were rife mid last year that the store would be closing down, but in May David Jones insisted it had no plans to change its store operations in New Zealand. The Australian […]