Sadiq Khan proposes to invest over £1b in city policing with new cash injection February 16, 2021 London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans to boost police investment with an additional £30m, taking the total to over £1b in the next four years, to ensure over a thousand Met officers keep their jobs. The mayor said he will divert funds from council tax and business rates receipts from local authorities to policing, ahead of [...]
Omicron onslaught: Number of Brits with Covid jumps by nearly a million to 2.3m while NHS staff off sick with coronavirus doubles December 31, 2021 An estimated 2.3 million people in the UK had Covid-19 in the week ending December 23, up from 1.4 million in the week to December 16 and the highest number since comparable figures began in autumn 2020, the Office for National Statistics said. Meanwhile, the number of NHS hospital staff in England absent due to [...]
Ferrari Portofino M review: the al fresco super-GT July 26, 2021 The Ferrari Portofino M gets a ‘Modificata’ update, with the 620hp V8 and eight-speed gearbox from the Roma. It’s a car of many talents.
Safety equipment giant Halma appoints healthcare veteran as its new chair February 9, 2021 Safety equipment maker Halma has appointed former BTG CEO Louise Makin as its new chair this morning. She will take up the role in July. Makin who will join the board as an independent non-executive director and chair designate, replacing Paul Walker who has held the post for eight years. “Halma is driven by its [...]
Astrazeneca vaccine works against Kent Covid variant February 5, 2021 The Astrazeneca vaccine currently being deployed in the UK’s largest ever immunisation programme works against the coronavirus variant first identified in Kent, researchers have found. Scientists from Oxford University, working in collaboration with the British-Swedish firm, said the jab has a similar efficacy against the new Covid variant compared to the original coronavirus strain it was [...]
Covid: New Indian mutation found in UK raises immunity concerns April 16, 2021 A new Indian strain of coronavirus that may evade immunity has been detected in the UK for the first time. A total of 77 cases of the new strain, known as the B1617 variant, have been recorded in Britain up until 14 April, according to Public Health England. Four of those have been linked to [...]
Leaked text messages: Boris Johnson called Matt Hancock ‘totally f***** hopeless’ June 17, 2021 Boris Johnson described Matt Hancock’s performance when it came to mass testing in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic as “totally f****** hopeless”, Dominic Cummings has claimed. Treasury minister Jesse Norman said today that the Prime Minister’s is “firmly behind” the health secretary after the messages emerged. “I think this is some of the [...]
It’s good to back in the Kafkaesque embrace of crypto conferences October 8, 2021 After 18 months of moaning about the sensory deprivation of Zoom calls, it was weirdly tiring to be in a place of humans, writes Monty Munford.
Omicron in full retreat across UK: Steep drop in new coronavirus cases indicates Covid wave is passing January 17, 2022 The week has started on a positive note as the continued drop in new Covid cases across the UK indicates the Omicron wave may well be turning around. The latest data shows a 38 per cent drop over the last seven days across the UK in the numbers testing positive for Covid-19, with 70,160 new [...]
Keith Pelley interview: European Tour chief on PGA Tour alliance, why 2021 is even tougher than 2020, and when fans can return to golf April 9, 2021 Since 14 April 2020, Keith Pelley has been getting used to a new way of starting each day. At 7:45am the chief executive of golf’s European Tour dials into a conference call with 14 colleagues to discuss which tournaments are on, which are off and need replacing at short notice, and which hang in the [...]