Northern Ireland is plunged into lockdown AGAIN

Northern Ireland lockdowns AGAIN: All non-essential shops, hair salons and cafes will be forced to close from next Friday in tough two-week shutdown just days after reopening Country was poised to emerged from circuit-breaker until a rise in infections  Ministers have warned the health service is in danger of being overwhelmed Cafes can open today … Read more

Northern Ireland is plunged into lockdown AGAIN

Northern Ireland lockdowns AGAIN: All non-essential shops, hair salons and cafes will be forced to close from next Friday in tough two-week shutdown just days after reopening Country was poised to emerged from circuit-breaker until a rise in infections  Ministers have warned the health service is in danger of being overwhelmed Cafes can open today … Read more

Matt Hancock dampens hopes of a major loosening of rules at Christmas

Matt Hancock today poured cold water on the prospect of a major loosening of coronavirus restrictions at Christmas as he said he wants a UK-wide set of rules for the festive period ‘if at all possible’.  The Health Secretary said negotiations are ongoing between the four home nations as they try to hammer out proposals … Read more

Cornwall is named pothole capital of UK with 210,000 reported over three years

Cornwall has been named the pothole capital of the UK with 210,000 reported over the course of three years – but Lancashire has staked a claim for Britain’s worst crater with a five-foot pit deep enough to fit a grown man inside.    Aron Cross, who owns Parson Lee Farm Glamping, reported a hole in Keighley … Read more

UK sees fastest annual rise in property values since 2017… despite our coronavirus pandemic woes

House prices leap £4,000 in a MONTH: UK sees fastest annual rise in property values since 2017… despite our coronavirus pandemic woes Average cost of a home was £244,513 in September – £4,060 more than August Annual increase of 4.7 per cent  – growing at fastest pace since October 2017 Buoyed by a stamp duty holiday, … Read more

Man, 65, arrested for murder of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings

Counter-terrorism police were last night searching the end-terrace house of Michael Reilly (pictured), 65 A suspect in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings was held in a dawn raid at his Belfast home yesterday. Counter-terrorism police were last night searching the end-terrace house of Michael Reilly, 65. The arrest comes days before the 46th anniversary of the … Read more

Police arrest man, 65, over the murders of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings

A 65-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham. Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands, working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, detained the suspect in Belfast today. The man was arrested under the Terrorism Act and a search of his … Read more

Moment trees on hillside slide down slope after peat slippage on windfarm in Northern Ireland

Amazing moment trees on hillside slide down slope after peat slippage on windfarm in Northern Ireland A passerby was stunned to see an entire landscape move in front of his eyes  The unsettling incident was the result of a peat slippage in Northern Ireland  There were no reports of injury or concerns the local water … Read more

UK hospitals record 157 coronavirus deaths in preliminary toll – up from 151 the week before

UK hospitals recorded 157 coronavirus deaths today in a preliminary toll – an increase of just eight from the week before.  The figure, which is usually lower on Sunday and Monday due to weekend reporting lags, suggests the rate of deaths may be starting to flatten out.  Two Sundays ago the figure was at 167 … Read more

UK hospitals record 157 coronavirus deaths in preliminary toll – up from 151 the week before

UK hospitals recorded 157 coronavirus deaths today in a preliminary toll – an increase of just eight from the week before.  The figure, which is usually lower on Sunday and Monday due to weekend reporting lags, suggests the rate of deaths may be starting to flatten out.  Two Sundays ago the figure was at 167 … Read more