Storm Bella with gusts of 100 mph in UK

Heavy rain and high winds lashed parts of UK by 106 mph Storm Bella. The Met Office issued  yellow warnings for snow and ice for parts of Wales, North-west England, Scotland and the entire Northern Ireland. The Ports of Dover and Calais have warned Channel crossings were also being affected by weather, with strong head…

Pope pleads coronavirus vaccine access for all

Pope Francis in a Christmas Day address delivered online for the first time from a lectern in a chamber inside the Vatican, the pontiff warned against putting up walls to treatments  by calling on world leaders to ensure unfettered access to coronavirus vaccines for everyone. The pandemic meant this year the annual Urbi et Orbi…

France lifts travel ban

France has partially lifted Trade and Travel restrictions as the military is helping with mass Covid testing in Kent amid port chaos as 10, 000 angry lorry drivers clash with police and demand to be let across the channel. French President Macron had wanted lab-processed PCR tests which can take up to 72 hours before…

Cut, Copy, and Paste inventor dies aged 74

Larry Tesler,  an Apple employee who invented cut, copy, and Paste, dies aged 74 Computer scientist, Lawrence Gordon Tesler Larry, an American computer scientist played a vital role in the development of a range of Apple products serving as Vice President of AppleNet and Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. Born in Bronx, New York, on 24th…

Two found guilty of manslaughter

Two men guilty of manslaughter in 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths Two men Eamonn Harrison (24) who dropped off the trailer at the Belgian port, and people smuggler Gheorghe Nica (43) were found guilty of the manslaughter of all 39 Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths in Essex last year and were convicted by an Old Bailey…

Mythical look at Britain’s unexpected places

  A Britain in the cracks of the urban façade, a land where unexpected life can flourish, a  land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, o motorways and ring roads of hospitals and housing estates of roundabouts and flyovers, places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect. Places where human…

Severe Snowstorm hits Japan

More than 1, 000 vehicles have been stranded on the Kanestu expressway, which connects the capital Tokyo to Niigata in the north, for two days after a heavy snowstorm in Japan. The snowstorm also caused misery for 10, 000 homes in the north and west as they were without power/ The gridlock began when a…

Crabs escape at the Jamaican airport’s baggage claim conveyor belt

Apparently, some has shipped live crab – decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura) in a baggage hold as countless crabs invaded a luggage carousel at the Kingston Airport in Jamaica, a spectacular scene for lots of passengers. Most of these fragile and helpless creatures got stuck on the moving metal belt despite their sturdy shell…

London, Essex, Hertforshire moving to Tier-3

London, Hertfordshire, and Essex moving to tier-3 -England’s highest tier of coronavirus restrictions will come into place from Wednesday  00:01Hrs MPs have been told by Health secretary Matt Hancock. A new variant of coronavirus identified, and it may be associated with a faster spread in the south of England, Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary.  These tier-3…