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Exmouth RNLI search for paddleboarder in difficulties
Exmouth RNLI volunteers were summonsed to search for a paddleboarder seemingly in distress in the River Exe this evening. At 6.55pm today Tuesday 7 September 2021, H.M. Coastguard tasked Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II following a report by a member of public at 6.38pm of a paddleboarderContinue Reading
Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement on health and social care
Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement on health and social care, Luke Pollard MP said: “There has been a real health and social care crisis for many years in Plymouth. Even before the pandemic waiting lists were spiralling beyond two million people with more people waiting longer and longer inContinue Reading
‘Capital’ displays expected, at least that’s the ‘Thoery!’
Glentaneous has an urgent mission in the ‘aged’ seven-runner handicap over ten furlongs of ‘good to firm’ Doncaster this afternoon; trainer Brian Meehan has booked ex-champion jockey Ryan Moore and his instructions will be explicit! Ryan will be told ‘win as far you can’ because Glentaneous needs to be upgradedContinue Reading
9/11’s legacy of drone warfare has changed how we view the military
In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a US Air Force pilot made history as the first person to conduct a lethal strike with a modern drone – the Predator. In the months and years following that first strike, the droneContinue Reading
Depay joins Dutch greats with sublime hat-trick to move level with Cruyff
MEMPHIS DEPAY moved level with Holland legend Johan Cruyff on 33 goals for his country in a sensational 6-1 thrashing of Turkey at the Amsterdam Arena. The Dutch made the perfect start to the game when Davy Klaassen opened the scoring inside the first minute. 4 It was a specialContinue Reading
9/11: the controversial story of the remains of the World Trade Center
In the months after the 9/11 attack, which killed thousands of people and cost US$40 billion (£29 billion) in damages, the shock at the tower collapse gave way to the monstrous scale of the rescue and clean-up operation in New York. Amid the destruction, an improvised team of volunteers, firefighters,Continue Reading
Why has the UK’s wet summer been bad for bees?
Bumblebees are better at flying in wet conditions than other bees Simona Chira/Shutterstock This year will be remembered in the UK for its extremely heavy downpours. Intense summer storms resulted in some places exceeding twice their average rainfall. These wet summers make life even harder for bees, who are alreadyContinue Reading
Social care reform: why Boris Johnson’s plan won’t fix the crisis – expert view
PA Images /Alamy Boris Johnson has unveiled plans for a £12 billion-a-year tax rise from April 2022, to fund social care reform in England and to tackle the NHS’s COVID-induced backlog of cases. Demand for care – from short-term needs to long-term support – is rising and levels of unmetContinue Reading
Everything that’s wrong with sentencing a white supremacist to read Jane Austen and Charles Dickens
What do you do with a young man convicted for being in possession of a bomb-making manual? A count of possessing information likely to be useful for preparing an act of terror can carry a jail term of up to 15 years. But 21-year-old Ben John wasn’t sentenced to prison:Continue Reading
Cornwall Freemasons play major role as comforting teddies for children in hospital reaches three million mark
The three millionth teddy to be given to poorly children across England and Wales has been presented, with Cornwall Freemasons playing a big part. The special bear was presented to Jackie James, Play Specialist at Peterborough City Hospital, in the hospital’s Amazon Children’s Garden, by Dr David Staples a hospitalContinue Reading