Author: News Desk

BOJO NO! Boris Johnson to hold major press conference during England’s first Euro 2020 match on Sunday BORIS Johnson will hold a major press conference – slap bang in the middle of England’s first Euro 2020 match. The PM will snub football stars – and infuriate lovers of both politics and sport – by staging his G7 conference midway through Sunday’s crunch match against Croatia. Mr Johnson, who prefers rugby and cricket, is due to begin his closing press conference at the summit in Cornwall moments after the Three Lions kick-off. The referee will blow his whistle to start the game…

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football isn’t a matter of life and death,­ ­it’s much more important than that. Euro 2020 Kiff off tonight A WISE old sage once quipped that football isn’t a matter of life and death,­ ­it’s much more important than that. Euro 2020 Kiff off tonight. In this year of years we know that’s not true. The toughest battles have been fought not by those in Three Lions white but in green medical scrubs and blue nurses’ tunics. Football is just a game but it’s our game. And now it’s coming home, again. A melodrama that has given us gilded ’66, Gazza’s Tears in ’90,…

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Households ‘will have up to 7 bins each’ as part of huge changes to rubbish collections The government wants to standardise waste collection so it is the same across the country by 2023/24 but the District Councils’ Network says the plans are “poorly thought out”. The government wants to standardise waste collection so it is the same across the country by 2023/24 as part of the Environment Bill. But the District Councils’ Network (DCN), which represents 183 councils in England, has warned this could be chaotic for some households with people possibly needing more bins than ever before. It claims…

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