Florence Nightingale letter reveals how she looked for a friend to adopt her cat called Mr Bismarck

A quirky letter by British nursing heroine Florence Nightingale about her little-mentioned love of cats has emerged for sale 144 years later. Nightingale, who became known as ‘Lady with the Lamp’ following her service as a nurse during the Crimean War, owned 60 felines throughout her life. At one point, she owned as many as … Read more

37 million Germans face tough lockdown measures

Angela Merkel made an astonishing plea for forgiveness today as she scrapped plans for a strict Easter lockdown in Germany which she said were ‘my mistake, and my mistake alone’.  The planned five-day shutdown – in which even grocery stores would have shut on all but a single day – was agreed between Merkel and … Read more

Angela Merkel colleague collapses and dies next to her husband on a flight from Cuba to Germany 

Colleague of Angela Merkel, 53, collapses and dies next to her husband on a flight from Cuba to Germany Karin Strenz, 53, was pronounced dead at hospital after collapsing on a flight The plane made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, at 7:30am Strenz was under investigation over alleged money transfers from Azerbaijan By … Read more

Europe Covid: Germany heads for new lockdown as cases surge

Germany looks set to tighten lockdown measures today and extend them into April as Europe’s Covid third wave gathers pace.  Angela Merkel is meeting with Germany’s regional leaders today for a summit that was supposed to be about easing restrictions. But as Covid cases spike, leaked documents suggest the leaders will actually move to tighten … Read more

Europe Covid: Germany heads for new lockdown as cases surge

Germany looks set to tighten lockdown measures today and extend them into April as Europe’s Covid third wave gathers pace.  Angela Merkel is meeting with Germany’s regional leaders today for a summit that was supposed to be about easing restrictions. But as Covid cases spike, leaked documents suggest the leaders will actually move to tighten … Read more

Crackers! UK vaccine taskforce adviser vents fury at EU scaremongering

A backlash against European scare stories about the AstraZeneca vaccine was gathering pace last night, with one Government expert describing the French Government’s stance as ‘crackers’. Amid concern that Britons might be dissuaded from getting the jab following the reaction of EU leaders to exaggerated fears that it could cause blood clots in a tiny number … Read more

Crackers! UK vaccine taskforce adviser vents fury at EU scaremongering

UK scientists’ fury at EU Astrazeneca scaremongering as Brussels stockpiles seven million doses of the Oxford jab amid fears it will cost British lives British experts accuse Macron and Merkel of being ‘completely irresponsible’ France among several EU countries that suspended use of AstraZeneca vaccine Sir John Bell said of France: ‘They’re changing the rules … Read more

Angela Merkel is humiliated in German state elections

Angela Merkel’s party slumped to historic defeats in two state elections on Sunday as German voters lose faith in her government’s handling of the pandemic.  Merkel’s CDU won barely a quarter of the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg in a pair of dismal results described as a ‘wake-up call’ six months before Germany goes to … Read more

Angela Merkel’s CDU are hammered in local elections, exit polls suggest

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party was headed for clear defeats in two German state elections at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, exit polls today suggested.  It comes as health experts have warned against easing lockdown measures in Germany due to the spread of the more infectious variant of Covid-19 … Read more

Angela Merkel’s CDU are hammered in local elections, exit polls suggest

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party was headed for clear defeats in two German state elections at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, exit polls today suggested.  It comes as health experts have warned against easing lockdown measures in Germany due to the spread of the more infectious variant of Covid-19 … Read more