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Scammers took advantage after the government suspended face-to-face interviews with claimants A Hampshire woman, whose identity was used by fraudsters to apply for a £1,300 universal credit advance, has been told by investigators that they are dealing with thousands of similar cases, and that “it could have happened to anyone”. In March, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) suspended face-to-face interviews for new applicants. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3prkySY Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Research reveals how ground-nesting birds frequently scared from nest by off-lead canines There is only one thing more terrifying for a nesting bird than a person walking nearby: when that two-legged beast is joined by a four-legged companion. A study of how ground-nesting birds are disturbed on beaches in Spain has revealed how they are almost always scared from their nests by passing off-lead dogs, but seem unperturbed by motorbikes, helicopters and low-flying planes. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3pvDVds Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

New figures show only a few years out of the workforce can have a big effect on a retirement fund The rise in the youth unemployment rate caused by the coronavirus pandemic is terrible news for Britain’s young adults – and could have a lifelong impact on their financial security, wiping out a large portion of their pension benefits. Figures prepared exclusively for Guardian Money reveal how only a few years outside the workforce can have a dramatic effect on a person’s chances of building up a pension. Contributions in the early years of someone’s working life are crucial in generating a satisfactory sum to live on in retirement. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/38IlCMc Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closures See all our coronavirus coverage Sales of digital books by British publishers are set to hit an all-time high this year as the public turns to reading to escape pandemic cabin fever. However, the ebook and audiobook boom comes at a high cost for the industry, with global sales of printed books by UK publishers plunging by 55m in the first six months of the year as high streets and schools closed during the first coronavirus lockdown. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/38CbLHY Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Thought up by a tired new mother, and now backed by Bill Gates, manufactured human milk sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But just how liberating will it be? Dr Leila Strickland became a mother when she was a few months away from completing her postdoctorate fellowship in cell biology at Stanford University. She spent the first three months of her son’s life “at home on maternity leave, relentlessly struggling to breastfeed. I was having a hard time producing enough milk.” She never expected to find feeding her baby a greater challenge than advanced cytology. “My mom breastfed me and my sister until we were over two years old. All my life, I’d fully embraced the proposition that breast milk is the best nutrition for a baby, and that this is what I would feed my baby.” Lactation consultants, paediatricians and well-meaning friends told her to just keep trying. “Because I was so unprepared for it, I found it really isolating. I felt like there was something wrong with me.” Co...

You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit , who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/35uVYZp Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Forecasts of gusty, onshore winds over Florida force reschedule to Sunday of first full mission carrying four astronauts Nasa and SpaceX have announced a 24-hour weather delay of their planned launch of four astronauts into orbit for America’s first fully fledged human mission using a privately owned spacecraft. The liftoff time slipped from Saturday to Sunday evening due to forecasts of gusty, onshore winds over Florida – remnants of storm Eta – that would have jeopardised a return landing for the Falcon 9 rocket’s reusable booster stage, Nasa officials said. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/35wTJoF Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Durham town became synonymous with ‘eye tests’ after No 10 aide’s infamous drive in April The legacy of Dominic Cummings is clear to see in the town of Barnard Castle – if you have good eyesight – with locally branded eye test posters on sale in shops dotted along the pretty market square. The County Durham town found itself at the heart of the story when Boris Johnson’s senior adviser finally confessed to making a lockdown-busting trip there “to test his eyesight” after suffering from suspected Covid-19 in April. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3lxf4Ui Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Junior, 35, international student recruiter, meets Lizzi, 29, lingerie buyer What were you hoping for? Love. Or, failing that, good conversation with someone outside my normal circle, tasty food and a break from the endless pile of washing-up that lockdown has created. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3kvPdLp Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Assessing the arrangement, he offers advice: never, ever light a fire in there A month ago I tried, and failed, to hire a chimney sweep. Then I tried, and failed, to get my wife to hire one. “I emailed four companies,” I said. “Most don’t even reply.” Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3pmTyEh Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Even a tired-looking apple can be turned into storable sauce, vinegar and any number of desserts, including this, winter’s answer to summer pudding Apples tend to be heavily sprayed and covered in wax to maintain appearance. Organic apples aren’t sprayed to the same degree, or with synthetic chemicals, and nor are they soaked in fungicides and wax, which is clearly better for us and the planet, but it can also shorten their shelf life. Apples with just a blemish or two are still fine to eat raw, but as they age and wither, it’s probably best to cook them. Plain apple sauce is the simplest option, and makes a sweet, fibrous, gut-healing breakfast. Crumbles, cobblers and bettys are all good ways to convert a tired apple into more than the sum of its parts. However, topping my current list of favourite puddings is the charlotte, which is like a warm winter version of summer pudding. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3eWM9qc Check out https://ronaldstone...

The US election, lockdown in London, flooding in the Philippines, and rising cases of Covid-19: the most striking images from around the world Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/2K7JNcV Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Abu Muhammad al-Masri was gunned down in Tehran more than three months ago, says New York Times Al-Qaida’s second-in-command was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times has reported, citing intelligence officials. Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Tehran, the NYT reported. He was accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3kwF2G8 Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Recent arrivals to New Zealand contacted after mystery case; Johns Hopkins records worst day of pandemic so far; state of Victoria still free of new cases 1.35am GMT Victoria has reported its 15th consecutive day with now new cases of coronavirus and no deaths. But it is always worth remembering just how bad things were in Victoria not too long ago. As case numbers have come down over the past few weeks, the DHHS... has created and tested an algorithm that has identified some additional 515 historical cases that are connected to close contacts, or established outbreak. It’s important to correct the record so that we can analyse the data correctly, and make sure we have learnings for next time. 12.42am GMT A little more on the update from NSW, where no new cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours but four new cases have been recorded in people in hotel quarantine. Health authorities in the state test sewage outflows for virus traces, and tests from Wednesday turned out posi...

Five alleged sorcery-related deaths – including the hanging of a 13-year-old boy - in a single week in one Papua New Guinea province, has revived a nationwide angst over the persistent crime of alleged witchcraft killings. In the highland villages and the lowland towns of Papua New Guinea, it is the crime that everybody knows about, that many see, but that few can, or do, anything to stop. Those who survive it are left disfigured: limbs shattered and missing, faces scarred and swollen, souls forever damaged. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/2Kac7vn Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

New report is latest sign that leadership is losing trust of ethnic minority supporters More than half of Muslim members of the Labour party do not trust Keir Starmer to tackle Islamophobia, with nearly the same proportion saying they do not have confidence in the party’s complaints process, a new poll has found. The report by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) is the latest sign that the party’s new leadership is losing the trust of minority ethnic members and supporters, even as it struggles to recover from an antisemitism crisis that led to a collapse in support from Jewish voters. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/2It4Gim Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Pilot scheme could put an end to distressing restrictions on access to loved ones, government says Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Family and friends of people living in care homes will get access to regular testing to allow them to visit their loved ones, the government has said. A pilot scheme launching on Monday will take place in 20 care homes across Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall. But the plan will be rolled out to other regions before Christmas, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3lyLsWA Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Ernest Boateng’s wife, Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, died shortly after the birth of their second child Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Before the pandemic struck, Ernest Boateng and his wife, Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, were planning for the future. She was expecting their second child and – after her maternity leave – wanted to become a specialist diabetes nurse; he hoped to join the RAF. But as the coronavirus tore through the UK, Agyeiwaa Agyapong became ill. On 7 April she was admitted to Luton and Dunstable university hospital, where she had been working as a nurse until signed off with shortness of breath. She tested positive for coronavirus and was taken to theatre for an emergency caesarean. Her baby, five weeks early, was born alive. But after five days in intensive care, the 28-year-old died. Boateng was alone, with a premature daughter and two-year-old son to look after. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/2UsfjnC Che...

Some trials of lateral flow test from US firm Innova found it was much less accurate than the government said it was The lateral flow test bought by the UK government for mass testing in Liverpool, and potentially the whole country, could miss up to half of those who have Covid-19, according to experts. The government has great expectations of the Innova test, having signed two contracts with the California-based company behind it. Innova told the Guardian it was now shipping more than one million tests a day to the UK. Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/2UkCErs Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com

Thousands of ordinary people around Britain volunteered to take part in the Imperial College London coronavirus vaccine trial. Who are they, what motivated them to take part, and what’s it been like? These portraits were taken for Team Halo , an initiative that goes behind the scenes with the scientists trying to develop a Covid vaccine Continue reading... from https://ift.tt/1Zwy43B https://ift.tt/3ngYbhh Check out https://ronaldstoner.weebly.com