PA Media Care home residents in England will be allowed two regular visitors indoors from 12 April, the government has said. Currently people in care homes can have just one face-to-face visitor, but as part of the next step of lockdown easing it will be extended to two. They will be able to hold hands
Month: April 2021
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is being investigated by police amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour and sexual assault. Watson, 25, is the subject of 21 civil lawsuits from female masseuses accusing him of assault or sexual misconduct. On Friday, Houston Police said it had received a formal report from one complainant and is now investigating.
EPA Italy has entered a strict three-day lockdown to try to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases over Easter. All regions are now in the “red zone” – the highest tier of restrictions – as the country battles a third wave, with about 20,000 new cases a day. Non-essential movement is banned, but people are
Reuters Prosecutors in Taiwan want to arrest a construction site manager whose lorry is suspected of causing a train crash in which at least 50 people died. The train hit the lorry when it slid onto the tracks from the site, trapping hundreds in the wreckage for hours. The train, travelling from the capital Taipei
Professor Jessica Meeuwig, the Director of the Centre for Marine Futures at the University of Western Australia, has told the BBC about her hopes for a new ocean monitoring system. The UK government funded project, known as BRUVS, will focus on monitoring marine life in ten British Overseas Territories including Pitcairn and Ascension Island. Video
Campaigners in Belgium are calling for urgent reform of the police after a series of high profile deaths. Most were from minority ethnic backgrounds. No officer – in any of the cases – has been jailed. It’s prompted accusations that the police are acting with impunity. The Belgian Federal force said it couldn’t comment on
Todd Kirkland The US professional baseball league has said it will pull the 2021 All-Star Game and the Draft out of Georgia in protest of a restrictive voting law in the state. Major League Baseball “fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” the Commissioner of Baseball Robert D
Reuters Did the government set out to cause controversy with an investigation into racial disparity in the UK? Or was the report’s release, on Wednesday, mishandled? We spoke to former and current Conservative insiders, on condition of anonymity, to find out how the report had come together – and the way in which it was
INDIANAPOLIS – More than four decades have passed since Bob Hammel, the former sports editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times, would rush back from the airport after Big Ten road games, pound out his Indiana basketball column on a typewriter for the afternoon edition and emerge from the office well after sunrise. He’s a throwback from
Gary Bester “If you’re relying on a temporary address you can’t apply for a bank account, you can’t apply for jobs and a lot of jobs you apply for you need a bank account. So it has been tough.” 51-year-old Gary Bester lives in temporary accommodation in Lewisham, South London. He has been without a
A police officer has been killed and another has been injured after a car rammed into the US Capitol complex. The vehicle crashed into a security fence before the driver lunged towards the officers with a knife, police said. The officers then opened fire and the suspect, who has not been identified, was shot dead.
The top homicide investigator in the US city of Minneapolis has said former police officer Derek Chauvin used “totally unnecessary” force when arresting George Floyd. Richard Zimmerman was testifying on the fifth day of Mr Chauvin’s murder trial. White officer Mr Chauvin was filmed kneeling on African-American Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes
PA Media People should not socialise indoors with other households even if they are vaccinated, Boris Johnson has said. As the Easter Bank Holiday weekend began, the PM said “we’re not yet at that stage” as coronavirus vaccines “are not giving 100% protection”. Police forces across England have also called for people to obey the
Reuters The US economy saw a surge in hiring in March as vaccination increased, officials eased restrictions and people pushed to return to their pre-pandemic activities. Employers added more than 900,000 jobs driven by re-openings at restaurants, bars, construction sites and schools. The gains were the biggest since August and helped lower the unemployment rate
A smartphone with a microscope camera offering 60x magnification has been revealed by Chinese phone-maker Oppo. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went hands-on with the Oppo Find X3 Pro to see what the microscope could capture – and whether it was useful or just a gimmick. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
The Museum of London have restored an historic ballet costume worn by Anna Pavlova at the height of her fame. The Russian dancer wore the dress in a solo piece called The Dying Swan, first performed in 1907. The museum said the item was “a truly incredible part” of its archive. The Dying Swan, choreographed