Swimming coach tethers herself to her garden fence so she can carry on training during lockdown – inside the PADDLING POOL Jennie Jones, 41, from Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, is an open water coach She wanted to keep up her training regime while the swimming pool is closed Coach said her ‘life is swimming’ and so she and her husband set up […]

All NHS and social care workers who need coronavirus tests can now receive them, says Health Secretary Matt Hancock as 15 drive-thru centres open across the UK Matt Hancock announced Government now has capacity to test all frontline staff Test centres opened in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, Nottingham, Leeds and London  First mega-lab ‘capable of testing thousands a day’ has opened […]

The Indianapolis community is mourning the death of a 24-year-old police officer after she was fatally shot while responding to a 911 call. On Thursday afternoon, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer Breann Leath responded to a domestic violence call in the city’s east side. As the 24-year-old knocked on the door of the apartment, shots were fired through the door, striking […]

Bungling 5G conspiracy theorists set fire to mobile mast after believing new tech sparked coronavirus… without realising it was a 4G tower Mast in West Midlands was set alight on Wednesday and caught on CCTV  Conspiracy theorists say that elites use 5G masts to weaken immune systems  Expert called it a physical impossibility as WHO also debunked the claim  This […]

Tragic photos capture the moment a New York doctor was overcome with grief while paying tribute to her mum who died aged 85 from coronavirus. Dr Emancia Neil lost her mother Minnette Parks last week and this Thursday stepped out from her medical practice to be photographed with a portrait of her. The elegant picture of Minnette in her younger […]

Foreign Office charters 12 new flights to bring more than 3,000 stranded Brits back from India after complaints over flight queues and sky-high fares They follow seven other flights for this week, as 5,000 in total being repatriated  Minister says government doing ‘all we can’ to get thousands of travellers home  Foreign Office launched £75m operation to help where commercial […]

A Polish priest has become a real holy roller — by offering drive-thru confession in his church parking lot during the coronavirus lockdown. Sitting on a small chair and wearing a face mask, Father Mateusz Kielarski waits for his faithful to drive up outside his large Warsaw church and confess their sins through their open car windows. “From the safety […]

After slashing jobs, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has sidelined its remaining print reporters. The paper, founded in 1842, hacked 22 editorial jobs last week, reducing the number of reporters in the newsroom to only 14. Now, survivors say they are being yanked off their beats covering the city proper — a job that has been handed over to the younger, […]

A judge Thursday sprung another 28 Rikers Island inmates who were supposed to be transferred to state department of corrections drug-treatment programs, according to the Legal Aid Society. The 28 inmates had violated the terms of their parole and were granted admission to either a 90-day or 45-day drug-treatment program at a DOCCS-run facility. But the state Department of Corrections […]

It’s the fort that counts! Bored father creates ‘castle Covid’ complete with a draw-bridge – using old cardboard sandwich boxes to keep his son entertained during lockdown It took Steve Wilson four whole days to complete the impressive structure The castle even features a moving draw-bridge, corridors and a hiding place Facebook users were stunned by the castle, which was made […]