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This car won’t be going anywhere today, after it was turned into a block of ice by a burst water pipe
This Londoner won't be able to drive to work today (Fri) - because their car was trapped in a block of ICE. The frozen motor was left unidentifiable after being turned into a block of ice by a burst water pipe. This Londoner won't be able to drive to work today (Fri) - because their car was trapped in a block of ICE. Workers were scrambled this morning to repair the pipe, but the car, in Tower Hamlets, east London,...
‘Beast of the East’ claimed first elderly victim today when a 75-year-old woman was found dead near her home
The 'Beast of the East' claimed its first elderly victim today when a 75-year-old woman was found dead near her home in sub-zero conditions during a blizzard. The un-named OAP, believed to have been confused shortly before her death, was discovered lying partially under a car at 6am as temperatures plunged as low as - SIX degrees celsius. It's not known how long she was laid there unnoticed but police said there is nothing to suggest her death is suspicious...
Empty supermarket shelves as shoppers stockpile food ahead of Storm Emma
The shelves at Tesco in Keynsham, near Bristol, were nearly empty after frantic shoppers bulk bought groceries ahead of the snow storm
London is so cold that Regents Canal has frozen solid
The Beast from the East has brought such chilly weather that London's busiest canal has FROZEN. Famous Regents Canal was so iced over that snow had begun to settle on the waterway - leaving it looking like tarmac. The nine-mile-long north London waterway was coated in ice and snow thanks to the big freeze - and people have even begun speculating whether it is possible to ice-skate on it. Regents Canal in London which has complertely frozen over as the...
Home Office offers medical cannabis hope to Alfie Dingley, 6
The Home Office have offered a lifeline to the family of a boy with a rare severe form of epilepsy which is relieved with cannabis medication at present illegal in the UK. After MPs from all parties called for six-year-old Alfie Dingley from Warwickshire to be allowed to take the medicinal cannabis that eased his severe epileptic fits when the family went to Holland, Home Office Minister Nick Hurd promised to visit the family this week. The Minister had faced...
Sir John Major claims UK citizens have “every right” to reverse Brexit
The ex-PM John Major has re-entered the Brexit debate. A prominent Remainer he spoke out over the way the Brexit negotiations are going, in his opinion. Major, talking at an event in central London, said that British people have “every right” to vote in a second referendum, to decide if they agreed with the final deal to leave the EU. Major wants the Government to offer a free vote, on the final deal, to the Commons and then have the...
Met issues first ever ‘Red’ Weather Warning & hundreds of schools closed as UK gripped by the Beast from the East
Freezing conditions continue
‘Cash incentives based on how many referrals GPs make have no place in the NHS,’ say GP leaders
A disclosure by GP website Pulse have disclosed some very troubling news about the health sector in the UK. The website discovered that in four NHS bodies in England GP practices are given monetary rewards to not send patients into hospital. A freedom of information survey of 181 CCGs by Pulse found that a quarter offered some sort of financial incentive to GPs to cut referrals These profit share initiatives have been slammed by many health workers and the general...
Three people die in catastrophic head on car crash with lorry after heavy ‘Beast From The East’ snowfall.
The crash, involving a blue Renault Clio and a white Scania lorry, took place at 6.15am this morning (tue) on the A15 in Baston, Lincs.