The NHS is partnering with Facebook to enlist new blood donors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ahead of a potential second wave of COVID-19. The feature on Facebook will allow users to sign up to receive notifications to donate at local centres, as well as encourage their friends to donate too. The NHS is
Month: September 2020
ITV has praised dance group Diversity for their “authentic, heartfelt” performance on Britain’s Got Talent where the dancers re-enacted the death of George Floyd. The routine saw a white police officer kneel on the chest of Ashley Banjo, echoing the killing of Mr Floyd in the US, while other dancers crowded around with smartphones as
A coronavirus testing centre in Kent has been shut – reportedly to make way for a lorry park in the run up to the next big Brexit deadline. Part of a car park at Ebbsfleet International train station was used at the start of the pandemic as a drive-through to test NHS staff and other
Just one in 10 of the world’s population is likely to be protected against COVID-19 in the first year of a vaccine being made available, experts have told Sky News. Analysis of global manufacturing capacity shows just two billion doses could be made in 2021, even if a vaccine was given the green light by
The Japanese military have been given instructions to record and report sightings of unidentified aerial objects which could pose a potential threat to the country’s security. Taro Kono, the country’s minister for defence, issues the instruction following the US department of defence founding its Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. While the popular imagination has been
Home Secretary Priti Patel has told Sky News she would call the police if her neighbours were hosting a party that broke coronavirus restrictions. Under the new “rule of six”, which came into force on Monday, social gatherings of more than six people are now illegal in England. People face fines of up to £3,200
The Treasury has hailed the furlough scheme as a success – hours after official figures showed the first rise in the UK’s jobless rate since the coronavirus lockdown. Officials pointed to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that showed that more than half of the 9.6 million workers placed on the Job Retention
Britain’s unemployment rate rose to 4.1% in the three months to July as the total number of jobless rose by 62,000, the Office for National Statistics said. The jobless rate was up from 3.9% a month earlier – but is still yet to be fully illustrative of the economic crisis with the Treasury’s soon-to-end furlough
NHS services are being put at risk because a lack of coronavirus testing is forcing many staff to self-isolate when they could be at work. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trust leaders says the recovery of services was being put in jeopardy while preparations for the winter pressures of COVID-19 and seasonal flu were being
John Boyega has stepped down from his role with perfume brand Jo Malone after the company cut him from the Chinese version of an aftershave advert he helped create. The Star Wars actor said the decision to remove him from the advert was “wrong,” before writing on Twitter that “dismissively trading out one’s culture this
As the smoke lifts, the full destruction of the wildfires in Oregon is beginning to reveal itself. A chain of small mountain communities, dotted along Highway-22, east of the state capital Salem, has been left as nothing more than ashes by the Beachie Creek fire. Image: Wetter and cooler than California, Oregon is not supposed
At the White House today, Donald Trump is trying to get as close as he can to emulating a moment that happened 27 years this week. On 13 September 1993 President Bill Clinton brought together two foes. On the White House lawn, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian
Rocks is a rare beast in the film world: Not only is it movie about young women, it’s also directed, written and produced by women too. Produced as part of a creative collaboration between writers, filmmakers and cast, it took a unique approach to getting to screen. Bukky Bakray from Hackney, who plays the movie’s
The prime minister has accused the EU of going to “extreme and unreasonable” lengths over the Northern Ireland protocol, as he defended his law-breaking Brexit bill in the Commons. Boris Johnson told MPs that the European Union is attempting to use Northern Ireland to “exert leverage against the UK” in negotiations for a free trade
Another 2,621 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the latest daily government figures, taking the total to 371,125. The number of deaths increased by nine, bringing the overall count to 41,637. Monday’s cases figure compares with 3,330 confirmed on Sunday – which marked the first time since May that cases had
Diversity dancer Ashley Banjo has called out “racism” and “hate” following the group’s Black Lives Matter-inspired performance on Britain’s Got Talent – as complaints about the routine rose to more than 21,000. Banjo, leader of the dance troupe and a temporary judge on the show, posted examples of comments he has received on social media,
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