A WOMAN has been jailed for nine years after she filed $500,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims for prisoners, friends and family. Leelynn Danielle Chytka, 31 from Lebanon, Virginia, helped file false applications and sometimes put the money into accounts of inmates but was also accused of keeping a partContinue Reading
The Quilt is a creative project, asking people across Plymouth to come contribute a patch to reflect on their experiences of the pandemic. The patches contributed will be sewn together, and the Plymouth Covid Memorial Quilt will be displayed later this year alongside – a collection of statements that willContinue Reading
BRITS cheering on England during Euros matches in pubs will be banned from singing and chanting to stop the spread of Covid-19. One doctor warned that singing “generates aerosol particles” which could be carrying coronavirus. Follow ALL of the latest news and updates from Euro 2020 with our live blogContinue Reading
The South West’s newfound love for baking looks here to stay, with new data from Alzheimer’s Society1, ahead of the charity’s Cupcake Day on 17 June, revealing that 28% of the region’s population have picked up baking as a new skill in the past 12 months. A survey by the charityContinue Reading
BORIS Johnson has been urged to push ahead with the Covid roadmap – but Rishi Sunak is “willing” to delay June 21 by four weeks, it’s been said. With fresh fears over rising cases and coronavirus variants, people are urging the Prime Minister to continue on with total unlocking inContinue Reading
The main signs of COVID-19 are fever, a cough, fatigue and a loss of your sense of taste and smell. Signs of COVID-19 in the skin have been noted too. But there’s another part of the body where the virus appears to have an impact: the fingernails. Following a COVID-19Continue Reading
The global pandemic has affected many Cornish businesses, families, friends, and charities since the start of 2020 and due to the various restrictions over the past year charities have not been able to perform their regular fund-raising activities throughout the county. Unfortunately, due to the global crisis The Provincial GrandContinue Reading
RESIDENTS have been forced out by a caravan park owner after they stayed longer than planned due to lockdown. Guests, in the Porthkerry Caravan Park in Wales, believed they were allowed to live there for 10 months, but couldn’t leave over the winter due to lockdown restrictions. All residents includingContinue Reading
STATE Department officials were warned not to look into the Covid-19 “lab leak” theory because it would “open a can of worms” for the US. Leaders were told that looking into the origin theory would bring too much attention to the US funding of gain of function research in China,Continue Reading
VIETNAM is battling a “very dangerous” Covid hybrid that spreads extremely quickly which is fuelling its worst outbreak so far. Flights have been suspended and its largest city Ho Chi Minh City has been placed into draconian lockdown as the country’s Communist regime scrambles to avert a disaster. AFP VietnamContinue Reading