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The Exmouth Museum is holding its Christmas Coffee and Cakes
The Exmouth Museum is holding its Christmas Coffee and Cakes morning on Thursday 16 December 2021 from 10.30 onwards at the Axis Centre, Market Street, Exmouth, EX8 1HP (just by Nat West Bank). Come along and enjoy coffee, a choice of hot drinks, mince pies and home made cakes; meetContinue Reading
Downing Street Christmas party: political communication expert on four key takeaways from leaked Allegra Stratton video
The leaked recording of the UK prime minister’s then press secretary role-playing with colleagues in a rehearsal for an imagined press conference justifying a party held at 10 Downing Street at a time when the UK government had forbidden such gatherings among ordinary citizens is clearly a massive failure ofContinue Reading
Afghanistan whistleblower’s account of evacuation was right – trying to get my colleagues out was chaos
Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE The testimony of a whistleblower about the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan describes an ill-equipped, chaotic evacuation. Raphael Marshall, a former Foreign Office diplomat, suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation underContinue Reading
Self Assessment customers use monthly payment plans to pay £46 million in tax
More than 20,000 Self Assessment customers have used HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) online monthly payment plan service since April to spread the cost of their tax bill, totalling £46 million so far, it has been revealed. Where customers are struggling to pay their bill in full, the self-serve TimeContinue Reading
Hardman Pepe annoyed his dad by sleeping with his mum in bed until he was 17
FORMER Real Madrid hardman Pepe revealed he slept in bed with his mum until he was 17 – much to the annoyance of his dad. The Portuguese centre-back, 38, now captains Porto but grew up in Brazil before leaving for Europe when he turned 18. 1 Veteran Porto defender PepeContinue Reading
Cuba’s COVID vaccines: the limited data available suggests they’re highly effective
The western world has written plenty about its high-profile COVID vaccines: the mRNA products of Pfizer and Moderna, viral-vectored jabs from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, and those that are just emerging, such as Novavax’s protein-based vaccine. Many countries are relying on them for protection. But not Cuba. It’s beenContinue Reading
Hopefully it will be all about a ‘Bear Hug’ tonight!
Asean Legend meets median time-handicap requirement in division one of a Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of Kempton tonight when the obligatory lavish eight-race Winter ‘Wednesday-nighter’ affords a couple of half-decent wagers for two-year-old aficionados like myself. Weather conditions are grim and so the usual sparse crowd might be cuddledContinue Reading
Symptoms, vaccine evasion and a new ‘offshoot’: What we know now about the omicron Covid variant
Lab technicians in the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s been two weeks since South Africa reported the omicron Covid variant to the World Health Organization and now it’s spreading around the globe. In the last fortnight, experts haveContinue Reading
A year of COVID vaccines: how the UK pinned its hopes on the jab – and why those hopes are under threat
A year ago, Margaret Keenan made history. On December 8 2020, she became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Ninety-year-old Keenan described it as the “best early birthday present”. It was a moment of shining hope in what had beenContinue Reading
Twitter has banned posting of images of people without their consent – here’s why that’s a good thing
Twitter recently announced that it will no longer allow “the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent”. The move takes effect through an expansion of the social media platform’s private information and media policy. In practical terms, this means photos andContinue Reading