“Appalling” new pay figures show some NHS earnings down by £7.5k a year
GMB analysis of ‘appalling’ new official wage figures reveals the shocking scale of the real-terms pay cuts endured by NHS workers. The latest official estimates of staff earnings, which were published this morning show ambulance staff have had their real terms pay slashed by £7,500 a year compared to their 2010 wages. The average NHS worker’s salary is now up to £3,800 lower than it would have been in if wages had kept pace with inflation. Staff nurses’ earnings are...
Charity under fire for setting up a booth at a student freshers’ fair – promoting pro life aims
Students were left fuming after an anti-abortion charity set up a booth at a university fresher's fair - with models of foetuses. Undergraduates complained to organisers about the tasteless demonstration by charity Life, and they were told to remove their foetal models because they were too “political and offensive”. Brunel University London had stalls of societies, clubs and support groups at the fayre designed to welcome new students and help them settle into university life. The models that where on...
In the future we will be driving around in ‘cars’ which FLOAT thanks to magnetic levitation
Cars of the future will be bubble-like pods which FLOAT thanks to magnetic levitation, if one award-winning designer has her way. ‘The Float’ concept, which is made using transparent glass, is based around the car becoming more of a social space. It is made up of pods which can be added or removed via a magnetic belt which runs around the exterior. Power is 100 per cent electric and there are no wheels, with The Float moving around via magnetic...
Sickening! – Couple banned from keeping pets for life after starving dog to death
A lesbian couple have been banned from keeping pets for life after they starved their two dogs - leaving one dead before leaving the animal's body to rot in a plastic bag. Danielle Rogers and Keeley Scott, both 19, failed to feed crossbreed Lulu and dumped her body in a park after she died. The couple also mistreated another dog, black-and-white Staffordshire bull terrier Patch, which was found to be half its normal body weight. The couple, from Worcester, were...
1,000-year-old Chinese dish set to sell for more than £10 MILLION!
A small but highly-important ceramic dish from Imperial China is expected to sell for more than £10 MILLION next month. The brush washer is around 1,000 years old and was commissioned by the imperial court during the Song dynasty. And it was made by Ru guanyao, which is one of the most revered of the Five Great Kilns used during this period. The dish, which has a diameter of just 13cm and would have been used to clean brushes, has...
Ten-year-old girl left with a broken arm after being struck by “psycho clown with a knife”
A ten-year-old girl suffered a broken arm after she was struck by a "knife-wielding" boy dressed as a killer CLOWN. Casie Morrison, ten, was playing in the park with her siblings when a figure emerged from the bushes dressed as a creepy clown wearing a Slender Man mask. Mum Kirsty, 36, told the boy - who was reportedly carrying a KNIFE - to clear off, and he fled when older boys in the park gave chase. But the boy barged...
Rise of the Progressive Web App: Is This the Death of Apps as We Know Them?
Mobile apps have existed for quite a while now; perhaps for even longer than you might think. Many might be hasty to give all credit to Apple for the rise of the app. After all, it was the 2007 launch of the iPhone which introduced apps in their current, tappable icon form. They also coined the term app and launched the first native app store. But apps have been around much longer than that. The Nokia 6110, made famous for...
In Pics – Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks and Ana de Armas for Blade Runner 2049
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks and Ana de Armas all in attendance at the Corinthia Hotel, London as the much anticipated Blade Runner 2049 is about to be released. Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford at the photo...
These are the governments that submit the most content removal requests to Twitter
Turkey has submitted almost 2,000 content removal requests to Twitter this year according to The Spectator Index. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been heavily criticised on the global stage for censoring the media in his country. The 2016–17 purges in Turkey brought about in reaction to the failed coup d'état have resulted in many journalists being locked up and several news outlets being shut down. Last year the president shut down an unprecedented number of television channels, radio stations and daily...