London Zoo will reopen on April 12 – but indoor areas are off-limits, masks are mandatory and visitors must book ahead and follow one-way map Only outdoor routes will be open and visitor numbers will be reduced at the site  Roughly half of the site will be closed when the zoo reopens next month  Whipsnade Zoo, which is owned by […]

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THIS is the moment a worker empties a skip onto a woman's driveway – days after her mum's funeral. Lynn Prestage, of Blackpool, Lancs, paid £192 to hire the skip after her mother died. She asked a third party company to collect it on Friday – the day of the funeral service. Local company Lytham St Annes Skip Hire then […]

Three bodies that washed up on coast of north west England are confirmed as fishermen whose boat went missing from Wales more than two months ago The Nicola Faith boat went missing from Conwy, north Wales, on January 27 Carl McGrath, 34, Ross Ballantine 39, and Alan Minard, 20, were all on board  Three bodies found on North West coast […]

Mother and daughter hotel bosses who won Channel 4’s Four In A Bed apologise to vicar over Easter-themed hamper featuring ‘Twice Resurrected Souffle Tart’ and ‘Passion of The Christ Cheesecake’ The Farrier in Cayton, Scarborough, apologised over ‘Holy Grail of Hampers’ gift Reverend from local church told mother and daughter owners it ’caused offence’ Four in a Bed winners ‘apologise […]

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CAIRO — Divers inspected the underside of a colossal containership that had blocked the Suez Canal, spotting some damage to the bow, but not severe enough to ground the vessel, officials said Wednesday. The dives were part of a continuing investigation into what caused the grounding of the Ever Given, now anchored in the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch […]

‘Vast majority’ of positive rapid Covid tests used at secondary schools are likely to be false, scientist claims Professor Jon Deeks says lateral flow testing is likely to give false positives DfE has now made backup PCR tests mandatory for all positive rapid tests  Just 1,805 of the 3.8million lateral flow tests taken last week were positive  The ‘vast majority’ […]

Co-op starts putting GPS satellite tracking tags on MEAT in bid to stop shoplifters Co-op has put the hi-tech boxes to house meat being sold in their stores  The devices have been spotted on items including rump steak and pork loin It comes after the chain introduced body-worn cameras for some of its staff Supermarkets have been forced to add GPS […]

Healthcare workers have been warned against trying to “vaccine shop”, amid reports from two major Melbourne hospitals that some staff had asked to be given the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine over the more readily available AstraZeneca version. A letter sent to all staff at The Alfred hospital last week from chief executive Andrew Way said while anxiety around vaccinations was understandable, […]