Author: James Martin
New research identified the authorities issuing the most fines and making the most money from drivers. The new figures obtained using Freedom of Information requests reveal that in just 12 months between 2020 and 2021, local authorities around the country made tens of millions of pounds from bus lane fines, with some councils issuing more than 115,000 tickets in a year. Research carried out by Moneybarn showed that Manchester not only issued the most penalty charge notices of any council – 116,862 – but also made the most revenue, collecting £3,701,458 in the 2020/21 financial year. Manchester has a relatively…
Hello and welcome along to today’s live rugby league blog where we will be bringing you all the latest from the sport all day long. Rivals round gets underway tonight and we’ll be building up to all six games throughout the day. We’ll see history made tonight as Catalans Dragons and Toulouse Olympique go head to head in the first all French Super League derby. Leeds Rhinos take on Huddersfield Giants at Headingley, while Castleford Tigers make the short journey to Wakefield Trinity. Elsewhere Warrington Wolves face Salford Red Devils this evening. We’ve got two of the biggest games in…
Good morning. Boris Johnson campaigned for Brexit on the grounds that it would allow the UK to “take back control” of its immigration arrangements. But the government’s failure to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats to claim asylum (almost 30,000 last year) has made a mockery of that, and today Johnson is going to announce a new approach that will make government policy in this area more hardline than it has been for decades. The government is going to sign a deal with Rwanda for it to take some of the people crossing the Channel in the hope…
The mayors of Liverpool city region and Greater Manchester have written to all 650 MPs in advance of the 33rd anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster on Friday, urging them to support fundamental reforms of the legal system known as the “Hillsborough law”. Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham said in their letter that victims of other disasters suffer the same systemic failures that forced the bereaved Hillsborough families to fight a decades-long campaign against injustice. The Hillsborough law proposals principally are that all public officials, including police officers, should have a legal “duty of candour”; for bereaved families to have full…
The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 123 on Wednesday with scores missing and feared dead, officials said, as rescuers dug up more bodies with bare hands and backhoes in crushed villages.Most of the deaths from tropical storm Megi – the strongest to hit the archipelago this year – were in the central province of Leyte, where a series of landslides devastated communities.Eighty six of the casualties were in Baybay, a mountainous area in the province, where 236 people were also injured, the city government said in a report. Waves of sodden soil had smashed…
Unlike type two diabetes, type one is not linked to age or being overweight. Furthermore type one diabetes requires more management and can be slightly more dangerous when glucose levels are too low or too high. For example, those with type one diabetes can experience a condition known as hypoglycaemia. This occurs when their blood sugar is too low and can happen when someone delays their meals, hasn’t had enough carbohydrate with their last meal, done lots of exercise without having the right amount of carbohydrate, taken too much insulin, or drunk alcohol on an empty stomach. Source link
Former Colombia captain Freddy Rincón has died aged 55 after sustaining severe head injuries in a car crash. Rincón was hurt after the vehicle he was driving collided with a bus on Monday in Cali, Colombia. “Despite all the efforts of our teams, Freddy Eusebio Rincón Valencia has passed away,” said Laureano Quintero, the medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali where Rincón was being treated. Colombia’s football federation, the FCF, tweeted a tribute acknowledging the “great loss” and saying “we will miss him and remember him with great affection, appreciation, respect and admiration”. “The Colombian Football Federation deeply…
If you use Windows now is a very good time to make sure your PC’s software is fully up to date. Microsoft has just released a vital upgrade, as part of its Patch Tuesday event, which fixes over 120 flaws in its popular operating systems. Ten of the problem are so serious they have been given a “Critical” rating by the Redmond firm which means users should not delay in downloading the patch. If that wasn’t enough to have you reaching for the download button there’s also the news that two of the flaws fixed in this latest release, named…
Mrs Hinch, whose full name is Sophie Hinchliffe, rose to fame after sharing her cleaning tips and recommendations on social media and TV. The cleaning enthusiast has managed to gain over 4.4 million followers on Instagram and has authored several books. Now, fans of hers have created their own social media groups dedicated to cleaning and tidying tips, one of which includes removing smells from washing machines. Posting on Mrs Hinch Cleaning tips and tricks, one woman asked for advice on how to rid the odours from her “badly” smelling washing machine. Nessa Charlotte Morrissey wrote: “My washing machine stinks…
2m ago02:39Nine humanitarian corridors agreed for Thursday – deputy PMIryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, has announced that today there will be nine humanitarian corridors available to evacuate civilians from areas in Ukraine under attack by Russia.There were no corridors set up yesterday, in part, she had said, because Russia was unable to control its forces on the ground and observe agreed local ceasefires while people were fleeing. The claims were not independently verified.12m ago02:29The 5 Kanal news service in Ukraine is carrying a little more detail on Ukrainian claims it sabotaged a bridge as a Russian military convoy was…