NEV: ‘RESILIENT’ CHELSEA CAN PIP KOP AND CITY Gary Neville believes Chelsea have a ‘great shout’ of winning the Premier League title as he hailed the club’s dogged resilience. The Blues moved back to the top of the table yesterday after winning 1-0 away at Brentford having survived a second half onslaughtContinue Reading
The House of Commons is about to review the government’s flagship Coronavirus Act 2020 for the third, and likely the last, time. The sweeping 350+ page act was introduced with a mere 13 hours of debate in March 2020. It introduced extensive powers, from significant changes to court proceedings, toContinue Reading
The chief of the health service has said it is “time for us all to hit the reset button” as Covid hospitalisations in Ireland near the 500-patient mark. There are 482 patients hospitalised with the disease as of Monday morning, with 74 people in intensive care. 76 new patients admittedContinue Reading
Orawan Pattarawimonchai/Shutterstock Beta-amyloid and tau are two proteins that serve useful functions in the brain, but in Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia – they go rogue and destroy brain cells (neurons). This happens when beta-amyloid forms clumps on the outside of neurons and tau forms tanglesContinue Reading
Irina Polonina/Shutterstock Although babies and young children are at lower risk of getting very sick with COVID-19 compared to older adults, a small proportion of babies will require hospital care. There has been immense interest among scientists, health-care workers and new mothers especially in understanding whether potentially protective antibodies againstContinue Reading
Tesla opened the doors to its European gigafactory for the first time this month, but local people are still unimpressedContinue Reading
Review at a glance T here are three different plays struggling to get out of Cordelia Lynn’s somewhat bewildering 90-minute script titled Love and Other Acts of Violence: a dysfunctional love story, a portrait of political dystopia and a flashback to a pogrom. All together, it’s meant as a warningContinue Reading
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that they are treating the attack that killed Conservative MP Sir David Amess on October 15 as terrorism. A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene of Amess’ death – Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Amess, the Conservative member of parliament for Southend West,Continue Reading
MORE than a million hospital appointments were cancelled due to last winter’s Covid wave. Now, medics warn “everything possible” must be done to stop widespread postponements this year. Getty January was the worst affected month with 144,000 cancellations at 37 hospitals[/caption] The impact on eye and heart clinics meant thousandsContinue Reading
Amazing to think the powers that be, British Horseracing Authority, officially ‘ended’ our 2021 turf-flat season yesterday with a six-race ‘Champions’ fixture at Ascot and today there is no racing ‘on the level’ in England; mind you it will be a bit like old times! Sunday racing wasn’t introduced untilContinue Reading
