Bhumika Singh
Over 1,000 individuals from various sectors of the hospitality industry took part in the campaign this October, in support of UK charity Hospitality Action. The event, now in its fifth year, was launched on World Mental Health Day. The Walk for Wellbeing initiative has raised £135,000, making it the charity’s biggest annual mass participation fundraiser. … Read more
Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are separated by only 1 point in the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina, according to polling released Thursday. The surveys from CNN, which were conducted by SSRS, found that Trump leads Harris by 1 point — with 48 percent support to her 47 percent — among … Read more
North Korea had fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet – before falling into waters off its east, according to South Korea and Japan. The ICBM was launched at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles), violating UN restrictions. Thursday’s launch occurred … Read more
Steve Green, the Alzheimer’s Society’s regional manager for the North West, has suggested several tips for keeping dementia patients safe and comfortable on Bonfire Night. First, he advised planning ahead. He advised relatives and friends of dementia patients to inform them about Bonfire Night in advance, to help gauge their feelings about the festivities. Some … Read more
The Halloween spirit is alive and well this spooky season, but some states across the U.S. may be “more haunted” than others. BonusFinder, an online database, ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C., then calculated a score based on a variety of factors to help establish the “spookiest” states. From the number of ghost sightings … Read more
AFP Smoke was seen rising from the Israeli town of Metula following a Hezbollah rocket attack on Thursday Two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say – the deadliest such strikes in months. An Israeli farmer and four foreign agricultural workers were killed when rockets landed near Metula, a … Read more
The group claimed to have targeted Trafford, Bury, Salford, and Tameside town halls this week with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, flooding the websites with internet traffic to render them unusable. Bury and Salford councils confirmed that their web pages were temporarily impacted by the incident but are now back online. A group named NoName057(16), … Read more
Reaction Engines, the British hypersonic aviation pioneer, has gone into administration after weeks of discussions with potential backers failed to result in a rescue deal. Sky News has learned that 173 of the company’s 208 staff were made redundant on Thursday morning by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the administrators. The collapse of a company which manufactures advanced … Read more
A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles – a two followed by 36 zeroes – for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion … Read more
The authority is facing a potential deficit of £9.84m and residents will see a 4.99 per cent council tax increase for 2025/26. The £5.6m per year Trafford received from the airport group in dividends until 2020 would be a welcome contribution. Manchester Airport Group is 64.5 per cent owned by the 10 Greater Manchester authorities, … Read more