Since 2012
Overnight camping was banned and motorists were told to plan their journey as New Zealand finally joined the flatpack family
“I’ve been waiting 25 years for this,” says Annie Sattler.
A quarter of a century after she emigrated from Germany, and seven years since the store was first announced, Sattler was prepared to wait just a few hours extra to be among the earliest through the doors of Ikea’s first outlet in New Zealand.
⚽️ Updates from 7pm GMT kick-off at St. Mary’s⚽️ Top 100 countdown: Nos 100-41 | Email Yara here 8 min: England with most of the possession. Kelly whips the ball in again but Beever-Jones is offside and it is just too far for Park to reach. Kendall came through as a young player at Southampton and she scores her first England goal at St. Mary’s. Kelly gets the ball on the left and crosses it into the box. Simon makes a mess of her clearance and the ball lands on a plate for Kendall who fires it home from…
Average of 1,717 flu patients in beds last week, up 56% on a year ago, after ‘unusually early’ start to season The NHS is facing an “unprecedented flu wave”, a senior healthcare leader said, as the number of people with the illness in hospitals across England hit a record high. The statistics, published by NHS England as part of its first weekly snapshot of the performance of hospitals this winter, found that an average of 1,717 flu patients were in beds each day last week – more than 50% higher than last year – including 69 patients whose condition…
Major attractions often don’t take lone-parent families into account in their pricing structures, making days out more expensive I’m frequently irked by family tickets – as a parent of an only child there’s rarely a deal to be had for my circumstances. But at least in my set-up there are two adults. In families with only one earner it must be especially frustrating to be charged as much as a family where there are two. Vaila McClure from the charity Gingerbread, which campaigns for lone parents, says they are often low earners and have pressures on their finances. “So…