Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi hid for an HOUR in CCTV blind spot

Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi spent almost an hour hiding in a CCTV blind spot before he detonated a bomb which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more, a public inquiry has heard.  Abedi, 22, made three ‘hostile reconnaissance’ trips in the days leading up to the attack in May 2017, with footage at one point showing … Read more

Millionaire businessman’s company ‘used furlough scheme cash to pay staff who were still working’

A multi-millionaire businessman’s company has been accused of using money from the Government’s coronavirus furlough scheme to pay staff who were still working. Workers at Russell Canner’s engineering firm Proform Group claimed the company used the funds to pay staff while keeping them on shifts, meaning 80 per cent of their wages were covered by … Read more

Millionaire businessman’s company ‘used furlough scheme cash to pay staff who were still working’

A multi-millionaire businessman’s company has been accused of using money from the Government’s coronavirus furlough scheme to pay staff who were still working. Workers at Russell Canner’s engineering firm Proform Group claimed the company used the funds to pay staff while keeping them on shifts, meaning 80 per cent of their wages were covered by … Read more

Dozens of bird watchers mass on Yorkshire club’s green to snap rare African hoopoe

Cricket TWITCH! Dozens of bird watchers mass on Yorkshire club’s green to snap African hoopoe that that’s not been seen in area for 40 years Delighted ornithologists were spotted piling on to the pitch at Collingham in West Yorkshire to see the bird The hoopoe, named after its soft ‘hoop hoop’ call, was probably blown … Read more

Dozens of bird watchers mass on Yorkshire club’s green to snap rare African hoopoe

Cricket TWITCH! Dozens of bird watchers mass on Yorkshire club’s green to snap African hoopoe that that’s not been seen in area for 40 years Delighted ornithologists were spotted piling on to the pitch at Collingham in West Yorkshire to see the bird The hoopoe, named after its soft ‘hoop hoop’ call, was probably blown … Read more

Shadow culture minister Labour MP Chris Matheson tests positive for coronavirus

Shadow culture minister Labour MP Chris Matheson tests positive for coronavirus with symptoms that ‘aren’t very pleasant’ Chris Matheson, shadow culture minister, fell ill on Sunday and tested positive  He said the symptoms ‘aren’t very pleasant’ but he doesn’t have it very badly  Comes as MP Margaret Ferrier had SNP whip withdrawn for travelling with … Read more

NHS hospitals in England are cancelling operations to make way for a surge in coronavirus patients

Hospitals across England are cancelling routine operations to make way for a surge in coronavirus patients. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said it was temporarily pausing non-critical planned surgery at Derriford Hospital, although day case procedures are still going ahead. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Steve Warburton told staff in a memo … Read more

Cambridge academics estimate more than 400,000 people caught Covid-19 the day before lockdown

Coronavirus infections in England are still more than eight times below the devastating levels they reached in the spring and the country’s outbreak is growing slower than it did in the first wave, according to top scientists. Cambridge University researchers, whose estimates feed into No 10’s advisory panel SAGE, believe 47,000 people are currently catching … Read more

Tory MP Chris Green resigns from government over Covid-19 plan

Chris Green, pictured, MP for Bolton West and Atherton was the parliamentary private secretary for the leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Evans A Consevative MP from Greater Manchester has resigned from the government in opposition to Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 approach.  Chris Green, who is the MP for Bolton West and Atherton was the … Read more