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- February 5, 2019
4.54am EDT04:54 According to a report on homeschooling during the lockdown from the Office for National Statistics out this morning, more than half (52%) of parents with a school-aged child said they were struggling to continue with their education from home. But lack of motivation was cited as the main reason for this (cited by
READ MOREMay’s survey data painted a deeply concerning picture of a lockdown slowdown across the service sector as employment dropped at the second fastest rate on record, pipelines of new work were woefully empty and business confidence continued to suffer. As the pandemic progressed any hoped-for bounceback in business output never really got going in May
READ MOREInvestigations have begun into several incidents in which protesters suffered severe injuries from “less lethal impact munitions” fired by Austin police this weekend, Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters Monday evening. … Manley addressed the weekend’s most serious incidents, which have been widely discussed on social media. On Sunday, a Black man who was recording
READ MOREMicrosoft may just have made Reply All storms a thing of the past, by adding a suitable blocker to Exchange in Office 365 environments. The new measure was promised in November 2019 as a “feature to better help thwart, or at least reduce the impact of, Reply-All Mail Storms.” It’s now landed in Exchange Online,
READ MOREMatt Hancock was tonight accused of blatantly fiddling the figures to hit his much-vaunted target for 100,000 coronavirus tests in a day. The Health Secretary hailed success at the Downing Street briefing, saying there were 122,347 tests in the 24 hours to 9am. But the details showed that in fact 73,191 people were tested. It
READ MOREThe actor, best known as part of the 1970s comic trio, died on Sunday morning and is survived by his wife Christine. Mr Brooke-Taylor began his acting career at Cambridge University where he was president of the famed Footlights performing arts club. It was as one of The Goodies, alongside Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie,
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