Actor Laurence Fox has been criticised after posting a photo of himself wearing a mask exemption badge which he says he bought online. The 42-year-old has been a vocal critic of the government’s coronavirus face covering rulings and social distancing regulations. Along with a selfie showing him wearing his new purchase, Fox wrote: “After a
Month: January 2021
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. CNBC Getting kicked off Amazon Web Services is rare, but it has enormous consequences. It happened this week, when Amazon dropped Parler, a social network that gained traction from conservatives after Twitter banned President Donald Trump and housed content that encouraged violence. Parler filed suit against Amazon in
Local authorities are losing tens of millions of pounds supporting struggling business tenants through the pandemic which could have dire and long-lasting consequences for local services, Sky News has found. Freedom of Information requests reveal English councils have already written off at least £19.7m associated with measures to support local businesses, including rent relief, rent
The UK has recorded another 1,295 coronavirus deaths and a further 41,346 infections, latest government figures show. It brings the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test to 88,590. A total of 3,357,361 cases have now been recorded. The latest daily death figure is the UK’s third-highest of the pandemic, although
EDF, the French state-backed energy giant, is drawing up secret plans for a stock market flotation of one of Britain’s biggest providers of electric vehicle charging infrastructure amid soaring demand from motorists. Sky News has learnt that EDF, which bought a controlling stake in Pod Point less than a year ago, has instructed investment bankers
Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of the Uganda presidential election with 58.64% of the total votes, according to the country’s electoral commission. The incumbent will now serve a sixth term as president of the east African nation following some of the worst pre-election violence since the 76-year-old took office in 1986. His main
Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools And Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has confirmed. The 19-year-old died in his sleep at his home in Fulham, west London, on 22 September. Lucy Lyndhurst shared the results of her son’s second post-mortem on Instagram, writing: “He died from an Intracerebral
The Trump administration has carried out its 13th federal execution since July – the most of any presidency in more than 100 years. Dustin Higgs was convicted of murdering three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996. The 48-year-old was the third inmate to receive a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre
More than 400,000 police records have accidentally been deleted from a national database, prompting warnings that criminal investigations could be compromised, Sky News understands. The fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were wiped due to “human error” and “defective code”, policing minister Kit Malthouse said yesterday. It was initially reported by The Times that 150,000
India has began its ambitious project of vaccinating its 1.3 billion citizens – as it aims to administer 300 million jabs by August. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the voluntary vaccination programme at 3,006 locations across the country this morning. About 300,000 health workers will be vaccinated today and the numbers will increase as more
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a group composed of more than 1,800 current, retired, and former employees of the National Park Service (NPS), is calling on President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to fight the climate crisis and protect national parks and public lands. And the Coalition calls for an NPS director, because under the
An electric charger being placed into a Renault Zoe car at a dealership in the U.K. on October 21, 2020. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Renault’s deputy CEO emphasized the importance of investing in the infrastructure required for low and zero-emission vehicles, with the French automaker aiming to launch seven fully-electric models by
8:42 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Bruce Headley, the thoroughbred trainer who developed sprint champion Kona Gold and many other stakes winners during a 61-year career based in California, died Friday. He was 86. Santa Anita officials said Headley died at an Arcadia hospital from the effects of a stroke. He had been
Facebook’s logo displayed on a phone screen and keyboard. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook said Friday it will block the creation of new Facebook events happening near the White House, the U.S. Capitol building and state capitol buildings through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. In a blog post that was
Closing schools has been one of the most painful consequences of the pandemic – the action Boris Johnson described as his “last resort”. Charities have warned that it could wipe out a decade of progress closing the gap between less privileged pupils and their peers. New research from the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) has found
Jeff Housenbold, managing partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund SoftBank SoftBank’s Jeff Housenbold, who led the Vision Fund’s investments in companies including DoorDash, OpenDoor and Wag, is leaving the firm later this year. SoftBank shook up the Silicon Valley investment world with the first Vision Fund in 2017, ultimately raising $100 billion, funded in large part
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