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Care home chiefs fear deadly mistakes made at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic risk being repeated as councils offer them extra cash to take Covid-positive hospital patients. More than 15,000 people died of the virus in care homes earlier this year, according to official figures, after it was reported that many elderly residential facilities were flooded with Covid-19 patients returning from hospital. Now, despite a Government pledge to place a ‘protective ring’ around vulnerable residents, care homes in Cumbria are being offered £1,500 – double the local weekly fee – to take Covid-positive patients from hospital. Birmingham city council has been offering £1,000 incentives for months while Morecambe Bay clinical commissioning group wrote to care homes offering them extra cash only last month. Trafford council in Greater Manchester has also warned care homes to ready themselves for a fresh wave of hospital discharges, telling them to expect Covid-positive patients within just two ho

Jacinda Ardern has vowed to ban plastic cutlery, single-use coffee cups and fruit stickers if she wins the election. The New Zealand prime minister announced her new zero waste police on Sunday   and pledged $50million to research plastic alternatives, pending ballot results on October 17. Businesses will have five years to find substitutes to everyday plastic items, such as disposable cups and lids, straws and drink stirrers. Jacinda Ardern has vowed to ban plastic cutlery, single-use coffee cups. Pictured: Ms Ardern leading a group of schoolchildren on a beach cleanup before coronavirus lockdowns 'By 2025 we will phase out single use and hard to recycle plastic items such as drink stirrers, cutlery, some cups and lids, produce bags, straws, cotton buds and stickers on produce,' Ms Ardern said, according to Stuff.  'All of these items currently have non-plastic alternatives, and some we will be able to phase out before 2025.' Ms Ardern accelerated the policy after she

Six teenagers have been arrested after a school was vandalised in a muck up day rampage, causing $50,000 in damages. The male students, aged 17 to 18, allegedly broke into Fairfield West school in Sydney's west on September 23 between 5pm and 10pm. Police allege the group destroyed property, spray-painted walls and ransacked classrooms. Officers saw eight people running through the school when they arrived at the scene. Police allege the group destroyed property, spray-painted walls and ransacked classrooms Two 17-year-old boy's were arrested and charged with aggravated break and enter, malicious damage, stealing and graffiti after they were allegedly found hiding in a park. They appeared in a children's court on September 24 where they were granted conditional bail, to reappear in a children's court on November 2. Another two students, age 17, were arrested on Thursday following further inquiries.   On the same day, a fifth 17-year-old was arrested after he turned hims

Boris Johnson has ordered diplomats to launch a new drive against Chinese ‘expansionism’ after Beijing was accused of placing pressure on Barbados to remove the Queen as its head of state. The island is one of dozens of countries which form part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, under which Beijing lends money to poorer countries to help them to fund critical infrastructure projects such as ports and high speed rail lines.  With China able to seize control of the finished project if the countries default – and frequently demanding preferential terms in trade deals as a condition of the loans – it has led to what one No 10 source described as a ‘Chinese chokehold’ over much of the developing world. Mr Johnson, who fears that the economic damage caused by Covid-19 will make countries even more vulnerable to domination, is to demand that China is more ‘transparent’ about its financial dealings with other countries.  Boris Johnson has ordered diplomats to launch a new drive against Ch

A New Jersey nurse who shot and killed her husband before dumping his remains in the Chesapeake Bay, has insisted she is innocent in a rare interview from behind bars, 13 years after her conviction.  Melanie McGuire, 47, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after she was found guilty of murdering husband Bill McGuire, 39, at their Woodbridge apartment in 2004.  Prosecutors said McGuire, who was 31 at the time, used her expertise as a nurse to drug Bill before shooting him, dismembering his body and stuffing it into designer suitcases.  Melanie McGuire spoke to ABC's 20/20 in a rare interview behind bars that aired this week McGuire was sentenced to murdering husband Bill McGuire in 2004, but she maintains she's innocent and the killer remains at large  McGuire spoke out from Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, for the first time since she was jailed, in an interview with ABC's 20/20 revealing she is fighting to overturn her conviction. 'I'm doing this be

Gayle King has chastised Nancy Pelosi for calling Donald Trump's allies 'henchmen', telling the Speaker that it was 'insulting' and unhelpful. King asked Pelosi about her previous remarks on Friday morning, after the Speaker said that Joe Biden should not participate in Tuesday's debate with Trump. Pelosi said she stood by her comments, because she felt it was a pointless exercise.  'I just think that the President has no fidelity to fact or truth, and actually in his comments the last few days, no fidelity to the Constitution of the United States,' she told King.  'He and his henchmen are a danger with their comments, are a danger to our democracy.  Nancy Pelosi spoke to Gayle King on Friday morning for CBS's This Morning  King was a donor to Obama's campaign and has been friends with Oprah Winfrey for years King took issue with Pelosi's use of the word 'henchmen' to describe Trump's inner circle 'I didn't want to giv

Bernie Sanders has claimed that a 'number of plans' are in place in case Donald Trump loses next month's election and refuses to leave the White House - but would not expand on what they were. Sanders, who challenged Joe Biden for the Democrat candidacy, dropping out in April, appeared on Bill Maher's show on Friday night. The Vermont senator was asked about Trump's repeated refusal to promise to accept the result of the November vote. Trump himself has stated several times that he might not accept the result. On Wednesday he once again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November's election. 'Well, we'll have to see what happens,' the president told a news conference at the White House. 'You know that.' In July, he told Fox News: 'I have to see. 'No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time either.'  Sanders said: 'If Trump attempts to stay in office

Although Amy Coney Barrett is President Trump's choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice - conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Barrett, who was formally nominated to the nation's highest court during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday evening, was once a clerk for Scalia and she could soon could tip the balance of the court on Obamacare, gun rights, immigration and abortion as she 'applies the law as written' -  just like her mentor.  Like Scalia, Barrett is a firm devotee of an interpretation of the Constitution known as 'originalism'. 'Originalism' is a concept that involves justices endeavoring to decipher the Constitution as the authors had written and intended it at the time in order to assess whether someone's rights have been violated.  Many liberals say that approach is too rigid and doesn't allow the Constitution's consequences to adj

Thousands of Christians have packed the National Mall in downtown Washington DC for a National Prayer March led by Rev. Franklin Graham, praying for the country  and showing their support for President Donald Trump. 'Father, our country is in trouble. We need your help,' prayed Graham at the march, according to WRC-TV. 'We pray today specifically for the President Donald J. Trump.' Organizers say up to 50,000 people attended, making it one of the largest gatherings in the nation since the coronavirus pandemic struck and, and bans on large gatherings were implemented.  The march, which stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, was held just hours before Trump was set to announce he was nominating a conservative judge for the Supreme Court.  Thousands of people have packed the National Mall in downtown Washington DC for a National Prayer March led by Rev. Franklin Graham, praying for the country and showing their support for President Donald Tru