Las Vegas stadium cark park is being used by the homeless as it has lines on the asphalt marking where people can set up their sleeping pads and blankest observing social distancing.
Superdrug, Tesco, and Pizza Hut are among the 139 firms named and shamed by the government for not paying workers the minimum wage, investigated between 2016 and 2018. They failed to pay £6.7m to more than 95, 000 workers. The minimum wage ranges from £4.15 an hour for apprentices to £8.72 an hour for over-25s.…
A Landslide in the Village of Gjerdrum, 15 miles east of Oslo, Norway, in the early hours of Wednesday covering 210, 000m², buried houses and injured 10 people, still 21 unaccounted for. Five hundred people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum. Several people are believed to be trapped. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg posted on social…
UK house prices defied pandemic and climbed 7.5 per cent in 2020, the highest growth for six years according to the Nationwide Building society. Prices ended the year 5.3 per cent above the level prevailing March, as the housing price were 0.8 per cent higher in December and November with an average property valued at…
The House of Commons votes on the first stage of the EU-UK Brexit trade deal which put the agreement into law. The Commons approves the measures by 521 votes to 73 at its first stage in Commons as the Parliament was recalled to put the agreement into UK Law, one day before the UK stops…
Lewis Hamilton, worth more than £250million, born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up on a council estate before becoming Grand Prix racing’s first black driver after completing his debut season in 2007, is to be knighted after Boris Johnson ignored rules to place seven-time world champion on diplomatic and overseas list amid tax status concern.…
New Zealand vs Pakistan at Bay Oval, Tauranga, New Zealand. New Zealand 431 ao 155 ov, Williamson 129 off 297, 12 fours, 1 six, Taylor 70 off 151, 10 fours, 1 six, Watling 73 off 145, 8 fours, Shaheen 4-109, Yasir 3-113. New Zealand second Innings 180-5 off 45.3ov Blundell 64 off 107, 7…
The UK approves its second vaccine against Covid-19. Matt Hancock said “the UK order of 100 million does is enough to vaccinate 50 million people and together with Pfizer-BioNTech jab will cover the entire population. This marked a significant moment in the fight against the virus and 2021 can be a year of hope and…
A powerful earthquake hit Croatia, at 11.19 am, the 2nd quake in the past 2 days., killing at least seven people including a 12-year-old girl with several others injured, and caused considerable damage to buildings in Petrinja, a town southeast of the capital Zagreb. The 6.4 magnitude earthquake downed phone lines as the tremor was…
Fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died at the age of 98 in Neuilly Hospital near Paris. Cardin revolutionised fashion with his futuristic designs in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a pioneer in the business, licensing his name to be used on a range of products including sunglasses. He was a supreme innovator for…