Advertisement The number of Covid-19 hospital admissions in England has soared by 25 per cent in a day, government data has revealed. In another blow to hopes the virus is being brought under control, NHS figures show there were 478 new hospital admissions in England on Sunday — the most …...Read More
Number of Britons hospitalised with coronavirus soars 25% in a DAY
Lost elephant seal brings mayhem to Chilean town as it shuffles through the streets
A lost elephant seal the size of a small car brought mayhem to a Chilean town on Monday as it shuffled through the streets before locals guided it back to sea. The huge animal managed to lumber down ten blocks of a residential area of Puerto Cisnes, in the country's …...Read More
Hard Left hits back at Keir Starmer as Unite union SLASHES funding
Keir Starmer is facing a hard Left backlash over ditching the Corbyn agenda today after a union slashed multi-million pound funding for Labour. Unite, the party's biggest donor, is reducing its affiliation by about 10 per cent with chief Len McCluskey warning the leader must represent 'ordinary working people'. Sir …...Read More
New England’s Forests Are Sick. They Need More Tree Doctors.
Many trees are also stressed by bouts of drought or intense rain, by rising temperatures and changing season length, by extreme weather — by all the various manifestations of climate change — as well as by air pollution and by invasive plants choking or displacing them. The list of threats …...Read More
An Arms Dealer, an Ex-N.F.L. Player and Huge Federal Contracts for Medical Gowns
The Defense Department distributed more than $1 billion in federal contracts last month to companies for disposable medical gowns to protect those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 100 large and midsize companies, many with track records of successfully completing federal procurement contracts, bid for the …...Read More
Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help
LOS ANGELES — When Belinda Brown was a child, she would rise early in the morning every spring and fall to help her father and grandfather light the fields of the XL Ranch Indian reservation outside of Alturas, Calif. She would take a metal rake to the grasses and watch …...Read More
Republicans Are Spending $60 Million on a Digital Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign
The Trump campaign’s prolific texting operation, which is largely devoted to fund-raising at the moment, has helped set the tone. “It’s so urgent we BOTH texted you” a recent message from “Pres. Trump & VP Pence” said. The R.N.C. texts, Mr. Walters said, will have a similar feel. The $60 …...Read More
States Scramble to Avert Conflicts at Polling Places
The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security have begun exercises with local law enforcement groups and election officials around the nation. After participating in one tabletop exercise, David Maeda, a top election official for the Minnesota secretary of state’s office, called his county administrators to ensure they were in …...Read More
Dawn French, 62, says she has put weight on but 'doesn't give a f**k'
Dawn French has said that she has put weight on following her staggering seven and a half stone loss in 2014. Talking on her podcast French and Saunders: T**ting About, The Vicar Of Dibley actress, 62, said she is 'back to being an entire barrel' but 'doesn't give a f**k'. …...Read More
Hold on! Hyperlapse video turns a picturesque funicular journey through Swiss mountains
This vertigo-inducing footage shows a first person perspective of the stomach-churning journey on a cable railway through the Swiss mountains. The time lapse journey looks more like a rollercoaster ride as the carriages travel up the near vertical mountain side. The footage was filmed at Gelmer Funicular, one of the …...Read More
