A FUEL duty hike would hammer drivers whose vehicles are “critical” to them in the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak was warned yesterday. Many drivers are nervous of returning to public transport because of Covid. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… Britain’s White Van Man legion and car users told campaigners FairFuelUK that big firms and tech […]

Covid alert is DOWNGRADED to level four as cases fall to lowest since September – but Boris Johnson again dismisses calls for lockdown roadmap to be brought forward The UK’s four chief medical officers have downgraded the Covid alert from the highest level of five to four Just 84,310 people tested positive for the coronavirus across the country over the […]

FRENCH actor Gérard Depardieu today spoke for the first time about being charged with raping and sexual abusing a young actress, saying: ‘I am innocent’. The 72-year-old film star broke his silence on Thursday after Paris prosecutors confirmed he faced trial and prison for the attacks allegedly carried out at his £45million mansion in 2018. "There is no proof, there […]

Hitting the gym ‘WONT make you thin’: Exercise doesn’t help you lose weight because we burn the same amount of calories every day regardless of lifestyle, claims scientist Professor Herman Pontzer claims that people should instead focus on diet  Research on hunter-gather tribe found they exert same energy as Westerners He explained active people divert energy to exercise from other […]

A DIVER got a little more than she bargained for when she discovered a bizarre phallic-shaped creature at the bottom of the ocean. Josie Jones, 48, was left blushing after stumbling upon the ‘penis worm’ while out on a marine trip with her underwater camera in Victoria, Australia. The freediver was scouring Rye Front Beach when she came across the […]

Surge in firms hiring admin staff shows employers are looking to reopen offices after lockdown, says Reed boss, as recruiter posts 153,000 new jobs in February alone James Reed, from jobs firm Reed, said there had been spike in admin job adverts He told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that this suggests a return to the office It comes as […]

Lion snatches newborn zebra from its mother minutes after the tiny foal struggles to its feet in heartbreaking footage WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT  Mckenna Wentworth, 30, recorded the clip while on a safari in south-west Kenya She recorded the 30-minute encounter from just 100-feet away  The lion pounced on its prey before piercing its neck and killing the newborn foal A […]

A BLACK high school student was arrested for walking in the middle of the road to avoid ice-covered sidewalks during the brutal Texas storm last week. Rodney Reese, 18, was arrested at 10:45pm last Tuesday in Plano, Texas, and charged with being a pedestrian in the road way, which is a misdemeanor offense.  The Plano Police Department said it got […]

Footage ‘shows moment UN convoy comes under attack’ by gunmen who killed Italian ambassador and two others in DR Congo kidnap bid Luca Attanasio, 43, was shot in the stomach on Monday then died in hospital  Bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, and his driver, who was not named, also died UN convoy they were travelling in came under attack near city […]

Private jet flying at 250mph came within 320ft of glider as it prepared to land at Cambridge City Airport, report reveals The Falcon 2000 jet was on a flight from Athens to Cambridge City Airport It came within 320ft of a Glasflügel Mosquito glider as it descended to land Incident was rated Category A as the jet’s pilot said risk […]