Health & Wellbeing How to make, and when to wear, your own face covering
Thursday, 04 June 2020 03:46The Government has issued new advice on when and where people in Wolverhampton should wear face coverings to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. While evidence suggests that a face covering...
Health & Wellbeing Beat the boredom with the British Heart Foundation’s new virtual fundraiser
Thursday, 04 June 2020 03:29The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is encouraging the nation to ‘Beat the Boredom’ and get fundraising to support the charity’s vital work while at home this summer. For those of us missing seeing...
Health & Wellbeing Woman in BAME donor campaign has liver transplant
Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:02A woman at the centre of an appeal for more people from ethnic backgrounds to be organ donors has received a “second chance” with a live transplant. Sunaina Paul, 31, of Bearwood, in the West...
Health & Wellbeing Hospital introduces disposable hijabs for staff
Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:51A hospital trust has introduced disposable headscarves for staff to use in operating theatres. The idea for this came from a Muslin Junior doctor, Farah Roslan, who said that it follows concerns of...
Health & Wellbeing Education project launched to understand Birmingham learning at home during COVID-19
Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:19The University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council are working together to study the implications of the shutdown on schools, teachers, pupils and parents due to COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Food UK turns to delivery cream teas during lockdown
Tuesday, 26 May 2020 04:20Online searches for cream teas and afternoon teas to be delivered have surged since the UK went into lockdown, search data has suggested. Afternoon tea treats topped the list of most increased...
Health & Wellbeing What coronavirus tests are being done in the UK?
Monday, 25 May 2020 03:15Everyone aged five and over in the UK with coronavirus symptoms can now be tested for the disease, Heath Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. So what exactly is the government's testing...
Holiday & Travel River operator, Scylla, resumes sailings with 34 exciting cruises on Europe’s most famous rivers
Saturday, 23 May 2020 04:27Leading river cruise operator, Scylla, has announced the sailing of 34 ships on Europe’s waterways with immediate effect – becoming one of the first companies to resume operations after...
Health & Wellbeing NHS fees to be scraped for overseas health staff
Saturday, 23 May 2020 04:26NHS staff and care workers who come from overseas countries are to be exempted from having to pay a surcharge to use the health service after mounting pressure from MPs. A spokesperson for Boris...
Holiday & Travel BVI Director of Tourism, Sharon Flax-Brutus, is ready to hang up her shoes
Saturday, 23 May 2020 04:13After a very successful eight-year tenure as Director of Tourism/Head of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Tourist Board and Film Commission, Sharon Flax-Brutus has decided it is time to hang up her...
Holiday & Travel Italy preparing lifting of its coronavirus travel restrictions
Monday, 18 May 2020 02:50Italy’s government has signed a decree that will allow travel to and from the country from June 3, as it moves to ease lockdown measures. The country has also announced that it will also allow...
Health & Wellbeing New trial set to see if dogs can ‘sniff out’ coronavirus
Monday, 18 May 2020 02:40A UK trial to see whether specialist medical sniffer dogs can detect coronavirus in human being is set to begin. The dogs are already trained to detect odours of certain cancers, malaria and...
Food Farmers in need of ‘student land army’ to pick fruit and veg
Friday, 15 May 2020 03:44Students throughout the land are being urged to spend their summer holidays working on farms to help keep Britain fed during the coronavirus crisis. At present, farmers are struggling after the...
Food Possible potato shortage looming for supermarket shelves
Thursday, 14 May 2020 03:31The leader of the Farmers Union (NFU) has warned that the UK could face a potato shortage following the failure to drench rivers had led to recent mass flooding. NFU president Minnette Batters said...
Health & Wellbeing Black Britons face ‘twice the risk’ of virus deaths
Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:47Black men and women in Great Britain are said to be nearly twice as likely to die from coronavirus as the indigenous white population according to the Office of National Statistics. The analysis by...
Food Ocado says that normal shopping habits are back
Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:44Ocado has said that “more normal shopping habits are back” after there was a huge jump in demand amid the coronavirus lockdown. Its customers are now purchasing fewer items that at the peak period...
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