Morrisons turns down volume of its checkout beeps as music and tannoy announcements are scrapped out of respect for the Queen UK Businesses are paying tribute to the monarch after her death on Thursday Morrisons shoppers believed it had completely turned off self-checkout…
AChinesebusinessman has admitted to seven charges of selling endangered species online after pangolin scales, dried seahorses and rare plants were found in his home. Operating from his home in Corby, Northamptonshire, Lei Zheng sold more than 30,000 medicinal remedies from his accounts…
Key points Planning minister Lizzie Blandthorn approved amendment C387 to the Melbourne planning scheme giving Melbourne’s city centre heritage protection. The amendment applies heritage overlays to 121 individual places and five precincts in the Hoddle grid. The Hoddle Grid heritage review started…
Singapore: China faces being censured by the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time in its history, after a UN report detailed mass detention and persecution in Xinjiang. The Human Rights Council will begin almost a month of meetings in…
Nicola Sturgeon says her husband SAVED one of the Queen’s corgis from being electrocuted after it began chewing through a lamp switch at Balmoral, as she pays tribute to monarch in front of Charles and Camilla at the Scottish Parliament First Minister…
AS his brother and sister-in-law welcomed their second child, Margaret, into the world, the 36-year-old playboy Prince of Wales appeared no closer to marriage. And neither the Duke nor Duchess of York had forgotten a conversation with the King the previous year,…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a link between tea drinking and hip-hop. But for Shanae Jones, the connection is clear. It’s all about community. As the first-born US American to British-Jamaican parents, tea was another member of her family, Jones shared. “Some…
White House condemns Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian water and power infrastructure after stunning advance by Ukraine’s troops Ukrainian forces have made rapid advances in the past 48 hours But Russian strikes appeared to target water and power plans in response White House…
HUNDREDS of tearful mourners have filed past the Queen's coffin to pay their respects. Many curtseyed to Her Majesty, bowed their heads, crossed their heart or saluted as they paused in quiet reflection. Thousands are expected to follow this evening to see…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Thousands of nurses in Minnesota launched a three-day strike Monday, complaining of low salaries and understaffing worsened by the strains of the coronavirus pandemic. Some 15,000 nurses at seven health care systems in the Minneapolis and Duluth areas walked…