Britain's biggest lender has taken issue with predictions from the Bank of England that the economy may recover to pre-coronavirus levels by the end of 2021. HSBC has slashed its own expectations for the UK's recovery, putting it at loggerheads with the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane. On …...Read More

The BlackBerry smartphone is coming back from the dead, as a startup is set to revive the popular device early next year. Texas-based OnwardMobility acquired the license for the handset from its original maker and announced the release of a 5G model in 2021. The revived BlackBerry is said to …...Read More

Being a ‘morning person’ could be linked to the development of Alzheimer’s. Scientists have discovered that a higher risk of the disease was significantly associated with going to bed and waking up early. The team from Imperial College London studied over half a million individuals and analysed their genetic information …...Read More

Gavin Williamson is 'on his last life' after his humiliating exams fiasco and will be sacked if Boris Johnson's schools reopening is botched, ministers claimed today. The under-fire Education Secretary has defied calls to resign from MPs across the board following his disastrously mishandled A-level grading debacle. Cabinet colleagues now …...Read More

A woman has died after she became trapped under a boat which crashed in Great Yarmouth today. Paramedics, RNLI lifeboats, HM Coastguard patrol officers and Norfolk Police rushed to the scene following reports of a collision involving two vessels in the River Bure in North Quay, Norfolk, at 1.35pm. Despite …...Read More

Walk around late at night in Okinawa, Japan, and you may stumble upon drinkers snoring in flowerbeds, pavements - and in the middle of the road. Local police counted more than 7,000 cases of the phenomenon known as rojo-ne - literally sleeping in the road - last year. And lockdown …...Read More

Former HMP Wormwood Scrubs officer Pamela Belonwu, 51, entered into the six month 'inappropriate' relationship with inmate Clifton Thomas, a court heard A prison diversity officer had an 'inappropriate' relationship with an inmate at a London prison and failed to report he had a phone with him, a court heard …...Read More

Tess Holliday has insisted that 'society hates fat people' after the $490 strawberry dress she was criticized for wearing to the Grammys went viral months later because 'a bunch of skinny people wore it on TikTok.' The 35-year-old plus-sized model dazzled in the whimsical pink tulle frock by designer Lirika …...Read More

The charity sector has lost 25,000 jobs due to the coronavirus crisis with another 35,000 likely to follow as fundraising events are axed, charity shops shut and donations dry up. In a survey of 455 UK charities 19 per cent have already made redundancies with a further 23 per cent …...Read More

Advertisement Visitors to one of the most dramatic waterfalls in Norway will soon be able to experience a brand new thrilling view of it, thanks to a staircase spanning the gorge it thunders through. Voringsfossen plunges 182 metres (nearly 600ft) from the Hardangervidda plateau to the Mabodalen valley. And up …...Read More