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While the past five months have seen the unfolding of an international health emergency with a very human dimension, when Blackbird boss Ian McDonough looks back on lockdown, he may remember this unprecedented period for different reasons. For around the end of March is when the tectonic plates started shifting …

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Image copyright Google Image caption The outbreak is linked to a charity match at Burnside Working Men’s Club Up to 300 people who attended a charity football match are being told to self-isolate after 28 people tested positive for Covid-19. The event at Burnside Working Men’s Club, in Fencehouses on …

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The crisis in the aviation industry goes far beyond holidays and jobs for cabin crew, important though those are.  The Government’s abject failure to get the planes flying again is devastating for our aerospace manufacturing industry and will kybosh ambitions to be an open, free-trading economy post-Brexit.  Most outrage has …

No doubt about it, aspirin is a wonder drug. It’s a painkiller, an anti-inflammatory, a blood thinner and, not least, it seems to prevent cancer. A team of scientists at the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds believe a regular dose of aspirin can lower the risk of inherited bowel cancer …

Image copyright Google Image caption St Gwladys Primary School will remain open despite the positive test A class of 21 pupils has been told to self-isolate for two weeks after a member of staff at their school tested positive for Covid-19. The pupils at St Gwladys Primary School in Bargoed, …

Now, more than ever, we need to change our eating and health habits to boost that all-important immune system. With COVID-19 cases back on the rise, it seems only sensible that we do all we can to get fit and healthy – and that means focussing on losing weight. Frightening …

France’s economic contraction has been amplified by the way the country measured the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on its vast public sector, explaining partly its underperformance compared with Germany and making it likely to outperform in the third quarter, according to economists and statisticians. Gilles Moëc, chief economist at …

The closure of international borders, flight caps and quarantine procedures owing to Covid-19 pose a grave threat to global shipping supply chains and the welfare of seafarers, the head of Australia’s maritime safety authority has warned. Mick Kinley, chief executive of Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa), said there was an …