Some do it for the cost of living. Others do it for comfort, to be closer to loved ones, or for that new job. Whatever the reason, Americans were still on the move in 2021, the first full year lived during the COVID-19 pandemic, several reports show. Pew Research says 26.5 million people moved from one home in the U.S. […]

Seattle residents replaced soft drinks with BEER after the city passed a soda tax in 2018, study says The study was published in January in the peer-reviewed PLoS One journal The volume of beer sold in Seattle went up by 7% two years after the tax compared to Portland, and overall alcohol volume went up by 5% It doesn’t count […]

Police blame ‘needless’ paperwork for 50% rise in time it takes to charge suspect: Victims left waiting average of 419 days after reporting crime Detectives say getting cases ‘trial ready’ wastes time before charge authorised  Officers tasked with compiling third party evidence and thousands of data files  This then has to be reviewed and redacted to remove people not involved […]

Boris Johnson will roll back the state and ‘trust the people’ after two years of Covid regulations, says PM’s new chief of staff Steve Barclay under No10 ‘reset’ plan in wake of Partygate Steve Barclay offered ‘red meat’ to disaffected Tory MPs and voters alike today Said it would be ‘a priority to restore a smaller state’ after years of […]

Treasurer mother-of-two is jailed for 18 months for helping herself to £90,000 from pre-school’s accounts and leaving them with only 58p Gemma Waterhouse, 39, left the trustees and staff feeling ‘very angry, betrayed’  She covered up the losses and even forged the pre-school manager’s signature  The ‘disgraceful’ charity fraud went undiscovered from 2012 to January 2019 A mother-of-two treasurer has […]

BEIJING — The Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear the Kamila Valieva doping case on Sunday night here in Beijing, and expects to decide on the Russian figure skating star’s continued participation in the 2022 Winter Olympics on Monday afternoon, some 24 hours before the women’s singles competition begins. CAS said in a statement Saturday that it would hold […]

Brexit stalemate goes on: Liz Truss and EU’s Sefcovic fail to come up with solution to Northern Ireland impasse after latest round of talks in London Foreign Secretary and European Commission vice president met in London It comes after Northern Ireland plunged into a fresh political upheaval last week DUP withdrew Paul Givan as first minister in protest at Brexit […]

Classy accommodation! Drab ‘fully furnished’ classrooms at a former Irish school are listed for £230 a month by Irish letting agent Monoma Ireland has listed two ‘fully furnished’ rooms to let at a former school The drab rooms at St Joseph’s Primary in County Wexford are £230-per-month Images show the school’s original mustard vinyl floors and an old blackboard The rooms […]

A BILLION-year-old 555-carat diamond that has baffled scientists has been flogged to a mystery buyer for an eye-watering £3.16million in cryptocurrency. The peculiar black 55-side gem – aptly named The Engima as its origins remain unclear – is thought to be the world's largest diamond and has never before been sold. Dubbed a "cosmic wonder" and "a treasure from interstellar […]

Father-of-15 is jailed for forcing vulnerable man into slavery by making him live in tiny shed without toilet or running water while paying him £10 a day James McCann brought Hungarian man Andras Varga to live on his land in Blythe Mr Varga was initially made to live in tent before he was allowed to move to shed McCann paid […]