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MPs last night called for vaccine passports to be ruled out for funerals as a minister hinted they will not be imposed on pubs. In a letter to Health Secretary Sajid Javid, the all-party group on funerals and bereavement said mourners should not be required to prove their vaccine status.  Chairman Sir John Hayes urged Mr Javid to recognise the 'unique and vital nature' of funerals. He suggested that weddings and baptisms should also be exempt.  In a letter to Health Secretary Sajid Javid , the all-party group on funerals and bereavement said mourners should not be required to prove their vaccine status Meanwhile, Education Minister Gillian Keegan said vaccine passports were unlikely to be introduced in pubs. She said the scheme was being examined for nightclubs and some other crowded events, but was 'not under consideration at the moment' for pubs. Downing Street has said it will bring forward legislation next month to mandate vaccine passports in nightclubs and certain

A shocking video shows the moment a 35-year-old man was shot during a sidewalk robbery in Manhattan in the early hours on Sunday. He was approached by a man wearing a hoodie on 30th Street and 3rd Avenue in Kips Bay at around 2.15am.  Footage shows the robber approaching the victim holding a firearm and demanding he hand over jewelry before shooting him in the thigh. A 35-year-old man was shot in the leg after he was approached by a man with a firearm while walking alone in Manhattan on Sunday morning CCTV footage from the street shows the victim walking alone as a man in a red hooded jumper runs up behind him.  The victim can be seen attempting to back away from the gun-wielding man while cars continue to drive by.  The thief also demanded the victim give him his chain and watch.  Despite handing over the items, the man with the firearm still decided to use his weapon.  The robber, who was dressed in a red hoodie, approached the main from behind as he strolled down the sidewalk  The

Officials have hauled the Australian men's rowing and rugby teams over the coals after a wild weekend of partying at the end of their Tokyo Olympics campaign. Horrified Olympic Village cleaners reportedly found wrecked rooms covered in vomit after the two nights of drink-fuelled celebrations, sparking complaints from other athletes.  The party came as the rowing and rugby teams completed their Tokyo competitions and prepared to fly home the following day. But the traditional celebrations on Friday and Saturday nights are said to have gone beyond acceptable limits while the Olympic Village is in Covid lockdown. Officials have hauled the Australian men's rowing and rugby teams over the coals after a wild weekend of partying at the end of their Tokyo Olympics campaign. Seen here is a general shot of the Australian Olympic team at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics Under the strict restrictions, drinking is only allowed in athletes' rooms and no socialising is permitted

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill donors accused the Board of Trustees of 'allowing Marxism to take root on campus' amid the contentious debate over granting 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured professorship, new emails reveal. Donors criticized the school throughout the course of the months-long debate, as detailed in a trove of hundreds of emails released by UNC this week.  The university began considering hiring Hannah-Jones to its journalism faculty last September, four months after she earned the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her introductory essay to the New York Times' controversial 1619 Project. That month, two 'long time' donors wrote to Board of Trustees Chairman Richard Stevens that they already withdrew planned gifts to the school and were considering ending their relationship with the university because of its offer.  The donors accused UNC officials of aligning the school with the 'Marxist' Black Lives Matter movem

A huge 295-feet-high giant music venue which has 36million lights on the outside of it to show adverts is feared to be London's next 'Marble Arch Mound' amid growing opposition. The Madison Square Garden Company is trying to make its scheme for the huge half-orb pass planning permission. It wants it to be built on a former coach park near the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, which is between the Westfield shopping centre and the railway lines, and says it will be a 'world leading, technologically advanced entertainment and music venue'.   A decision on whether it gets planning permission from London Legacy Development Corporation is still pending but the concept has been panned by neighbours. They are worries about massive extra footfall in the area and the idea of showing advertising on the exterior of the building, in a style not unlike the futuristic Blade Runner films. A mock-up video by protesters of an orange covered sphere through flat windows suggests it could

Dr John Gerrard predicted Australia would suffer an outbreak like the one currently savaging Sydney A top Australian doctor predicted Covid-19 would spiral out of control Down Under back in May, and said vaccinating the population when there were barely any cases was our only hope of getting out of the pandemic unscathed. Doctor John Gerrard is director of infectious diseases at the Gold Coast University Hospital and treated Queensland's first Covid patient at the very start of the health crisis in early 2020. He knew the first iteration of the virus was extremely contagious, and that was before the highly-infectious Indian Delta strain mutated its way into existence. New South Wales is now battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic began with a whopping 3600 new cases in the last two months, and the deadly strain has since spread to Victoria and Queensland. Just four months ago, when the nation barely had any Covid-19 cases, ABC program Four Corners filmed Dr Gerrard predicti