Orange Jaguar E-Type owned by Fleet Street legend up for sale May 10, 2021 A Jaguar E-Type owned by a bona fide Fleet Street legend is to go under the hammer, with a price of £55,000 expected for the 50 year old motor. The tangerine-orange Jag was the company car of Express cartoonist JAK, a nugget of information that will drain the colour from the faces of many contemporary [...]
Missing doctor who treated Kremlin critic Navalny found after three-day search May 10, 2021 A Siberian doctor who treated poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny reappeared today after being reported missing while on a hunting trip, Russian news agencies have said. A search was launched in forests 1,370 miles east of Moscow, after Alexander Murakhovsky left a hunting base in an all-terrain vehicle on Friday. Murakhovsky left the forest himself [...]
Safestore ups earnings guidance and outlines London expansion May 10, 2021 Storage firm Safestore is expanding its London presence and has upped its full-year earnings guidance after boosting revenue in the pandemic. The FTSE 250 company will open two new London sites and expand two existing storage warehouses, it said. The sites will be in Lea Bridge, Morden, Bermondsey and a location in north east London. [...]
Musk’s comedy attempt misfires as Ethereum steals show May 10, 2021 Elon Musk's flat performance and odd attempts at humour on Saturday Night Live did not produce the moonshot Dogecoin fans anticipated.
South Africa warns of ‘vaccine apartheid’ if rich countries hog jabs May 10, 2021 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa today warned of “vaccine apartheid” if wealthy nations hogged Covid shots while millions in poor countries died waiting for them. South Africa and India have been pushing for a waiver on some intellectual property rights for vaccines and medicines at the World Trade Organization. US President Joe Biden backed the [...]
Government raised £40.8bn in green taxes in 2020, just six per cent of total May 10, 2021 The government raised £40.8bn through ‘green taxes’ last year, just six per cent of the £633bn raised through taxes overall, according to law firm Pinsent Masons. Over the last decade, the money raked in by green taxes has only risen 19 per cent which has clashed with the 53 per cent surge in taxes as [...]
Pandemic drives 15-fold rise in online scams, say UK cyber spooks May 10, 2021 UK spooks took down more online scams last year than in the previous three years combined as the Covid-19 pandemic fuelled an increase in cyber crime. Experts oversaw a huge 15-fold increase in the number of scams removed from the internet, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said today. It comes as unscrupulous hackers tried [...]
Scotland election: Boris Johnson must face down the threat of independence with the spirit of Northern Conservatives May 10, 2021 Two things were confirmed by last week’s election result in Scotland: the country is split down the middle on the question of independence and Scots want to keep the prospect of a second independence referendum on the horizon, but no closer than that. More than two and half million voters took part in the election, [...]
Refugee nurses channelled into the NHS through new scheme May 10, 2021 Refugee nurses are being channelled into the NHS as part of a Liverpool-based scheme, giving asylum seekers the opportunity to use their qualifications to live an independent life in the UK. Palestinian national from Lebanon, Walid Jarad, had lived in just two t-shirts and two pairs of jeans for a whole year, until last month. [...]
Malaysia’s 1MDB launches legal bid to recover $23bn in assets after fraud scandal May 10, 2021 Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has launched a legal bid to recover $23bn (£16.3bn) in assets following a fraud scandal that rocked the southeast Asian country. Malaysia and US state investigators estimate at least $4.5bn was stolen from 1MDB between 2009 and 2014 in a corruption scandal that has implicated former prime minister [...]
