[ A major rescue operation took place after a small boat believed to be carrying around 50 refugees ran aground on a sandbank in the English Channel off the Kent coast. Coastguard helicopter rescue teams and RNLI lifeboats were involved in the rescue mission which unfolded on Goodwin Sands off the Deal coast. The rescuers … Read more
[ A documentary detailing the sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey is set to release on Max soon. Spacey Unmasked is a two-part documentary series from England’s Channel 4 which “investigates Spacey’s conduct and talks to multiple men unconnected to [last year’s] case about their experiences with Kevin Spacey, almost all of whom have never … Read more
[ Rashford has struggled for form this season (Photo: Getty) “I appreciate your support! It is abuse and has been for months. Enough is enough.” With one quote-tweet of a Manchester United fan account at 12.36am on Friday morning, Marcus Rashford finally snapped. The criticism and antagonism became overwhelming. For what feels like the umpteenth … Read more
[ Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax has become the latest brand to reveal it will increase mortgage rates this week, following a slew of other hikes earlier this week. Halifax emailed brokers today to say that from Friday, it will be increasing mortgage rates on numerous deals by up to 0.2 percentage points. It is … Read more
[ Women angry over major changes to the state pension age have warned Britain’s politicians that they are ready to make compensation one of the single biggest issues at the general election. The Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign has vowed to put pressure on every single election candidate to commit to an “adequate” … Read more
[ Senior MPs have urged the Government to hold an urgent vote on compensation for women who say they lost out financially because of changes to the state pension. Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners are furious that both the Conservatives and Labour have refused to commit to compensation, despite last month’s damning report … Read more
[ Liz Truss has not ruled out running again to be leader of the Conservative Party despite being forced to quit days into her premiership. The former prime minister said she has “unfinished business” in politics and left the door open to a future bid to be Tory leader. She also said she wanted to … Read more
[ Liz Truss is known as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. Her tenure in September 2022, after Boris Johnson was forced to resign, lasted just seven weeks after a disastrous mini budget unleashed economic chaos. The Daily Star newspaper had then bought an iceberg lettuce and set up a live webcam to see who would last … Read more
[ People with long Covid have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood which could potentially be targeted with immune therapies, the largest study of its kind has revealed. In an analysis of more than 650 people who had been hospitalised with severe Covid-19, patients with prolonged symptoms showed evidence of immune system activation. … Read more
[ Before the current hoopla-slash-controversy regarding the Royals, and before the one before that, as well as the one before the one before the one before that, the events of Scoop (now on Netflix) took place. That was 2019, when creepy Prince Andrew’s palling-around with pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein finally caught up with … Read more
