All A-Level students will get a place at their first choice university if they have the grades, and the caps on medical degrees will now be scrapped, ministers have announced today. Thousands of students have this week been scrambling to get places at their first choice university after after Education …...Read More
ALL A-Level students will get a place at their first choice university if they have the grades
Sheep farmer guilty of blackmailing Tesco for £1.5m after lacing baby food with metal
This is the chilling moment a sheep farmer plants jars of baby food laced with razor sharp shards of metal on supermarket shelves. Nigel Wright was today found guilty of blackmailing Tesco for £1.5 million in a campaign which resulted in two mothers finding the dangerous fragments when feeding their …...Read More
NHS sickness rates hit decade high amid Covid-19 crisis
A record-breaking number of NHS staff were off sick during the height of the Covid-19 crisis, official figures show. NHS Digital statistics released today revealed 6.2 per cent of health service staff in England were absent on any given day in April, on average. At that point hospitals were battling …...Read More
'Hypocrite' councillor opposes 1,000 new homes despite owning THREE properties worth more than £1m
A councillor has been accused of 'Nimbyism and hypocrisy' for opposing plans for more than 1,000 new home homes - including 675 in his own street - despite owning an acre of land and three properties himself. Mike Baldock was slammed for speaking against the new development in Kent given …...Read More
Twitter users question timing of Amazon Prime remake Utopia which explores new man-made flu
Social media users have called for a remake of British show Utopia to be scrapped in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Amazon Prime set are set to release the US-made series, about a comic book which has predicted several disastrous epidemics and features a man-made virus designed to reduce the …...Read More
Bird deaths from wind turbine's drop by 72 per cent when one blade is painted black
Painting one blade of a wind turbine makes it easier for birds to avoid a deadly encounter. A study found that painting one of the four white blades on a wind turbine black reduces the amount of dead birds by 72 per cent. Scientists from the Norwegian Institute for Nature …...Read More
Brazilian model, 27, has spent £15,000 on nose jobs - and she's STILL not happy with it
A stunning Brazilian model has admitted she 'doesn't recognise herself' after spending £15,000 on four nose jobs following years of bullying. Wanessa Moura, 27, claims her nose was the part of her body that bothered her the most and she was regularly taunted about its size. While going under the …...Read More
RAF trials a £300,000 virtual reality simulation system to help make combat training more realistic
A virtual reality simulation system costing £300,000 is being trialled by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in an effort to make combat training more immersive and realistic. The 'first-person shooter' -style combat game is being developed under contract with the UK Ministry of Defence by the veteran-run software company SimCentric. …...Read More
Reckless driver speeds along hard shoulder 'at 80mph' to undertake cars
Red Volkswagen Golf seen driving down hard shoulder for over quarter of a mile Shocking footage has captured the moment a driver speeds down the hard shoulder of a motorway to undertake cars despite outside lane being completely empty. Captured on dash cam, the incident happened on the A1 Northbound, …...Read More
Recruiter is urged to shame a job applicant who refused an interview because of his name
A recruitment consultant has shared the shocking discrimination he received from a job seeker after offering an interview opportunity. Kamran Chaudhry, who lives in Edinburgh, shared a snap on Twitter of an exchange with a prospective employee who had rejected his offer of an interview because of his name. He …...Read More
