Italians face dying a year earlier while lockdown in Spain sees number of babies born plummet

Italians face dying a year earlier due to the pandemic while the Covid lockdown in Spain has seen births plummet to record lows.  Average life expectancy in Italy fell by a year to 82.3 years, the country’s national statistics office revealed on Wednesday. In Spain just 23,226 babies were born in December, a fifth less than … Read more

Victoria Beckham wishes her mother Jackie Adams a happy 70th birthday

Victoria Beckham has shared a series of throwback snaps with her mother Jackie Adams as she wished her a happy 70th birthday on Wednesday. The fashion designer, 46, took a trip down memory lane as she posted photos with her mum from when she was a newborn and another from her teenage years.  The pair … Read more

Italians face dying a year earlier while lockdown in Spain sees number of babies born plummet

Italians face dying a year earlier due to the pandemic while the Covid lockdown in Spain has seen births plummet to record lows.  Average life expectancy in Italy fell by a year to 82.3 years, the country’s national statistics office revealed on Wednesday. In Spain just 23,226 babies were born in December, a fifth less than … Read more

Covid-19 has ‘exacerbated gender inequities in housework and childcare’

Covid-19 has ‘exacerbated gender inequities’ in housework, childcare and mental health for women, according to a new study.   University College London (UCL) experts surveyed 12,278 men and 17,298 women in the UK in April and May last year during the first lockdown.  On average, women did nearly twice the amount of housework and childcare as … Read more

Holidays back on: Spain set to launch vaccine passports

Sunny Spanish holidays could be back on for Britons within weeks as the tourism minister revealed a vaccine passport system was planned for the middle of May.  It comes after Greece announced plans to reopen to holidaymakers from mid-May and Cyprus said it would welcome fully-vaccinated Britons from May 1. But those hoping to jet … Read more

Love Island’s Lucie Donlan poses in Luke Mabbott’s boxers

Love Island’s Lucie Donlan poses in her boyfriend Luke Mabbott’s boxers as the surf fanatic shows off her abs By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 11:30 GMT, 10 March 2021 | Updated: 11:30 GMT, 10 March 2021 They announced they were officially dating last July after growing close in lockdown.  And things appear to be … Read more

Holidays back on: Spain set to launch vaccine passports

Sunny Spanish holidays could be back on for Britons within weeks as the tourism minister revealed a vaccine passport system was planned for the middle of May.  It comes after Greece announced plans to reopen to holidaymakers from mid-May and Cyprus said it would welcome fully-vaccinated Britons from May 1. But those hoping to jet … Read more

Boris Johnson warns coronavirus is starting to ‘surge’ AGAIN in Europe

Boris Johnson today delivered a stark warning that coronavirus is starting to ‘surge’ again in Europe as he snuffed out Tory hopes of an early end to lockdown. The PM admitted he was under pressure to ramp up the pace of his roadmap as infections and deaths tumble – with Nicola Sturgeon revealing yesterday that … Read more

‘Generation Covid’ are being recruited as ‘money mules’

Desperate young adults left jobless and penniless by the pandemic are being recruited by criminals as ‘money mules’, it is claimed. Normally law abiding people are being drawn into a life of crime to help launder the profits of illegal activity, including drug dealing, according to the banking body UK Finance and fraud prevention experts, … Read more