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This year alone, at least 10 locations in Australia have closed — with a liquidator appointed for one more this week.

Without widespread awareness of various treatment options for women, they face ‘an unfair burden’.

Jet, 16, could never have imagined a trip home from McDonald’s with his best mate would change his life forever.

With its focus on an energetic crime-fighting duo, incorporating dramatic and comedic elements, White Collar simultaneously stood out as a unique series with a grounding in familiar tropes. The show found a particular niche by focusing on crimes like art thefts and heists that are not as common in standard police procedurals. While this gave …

Southern and Northern Senators have disagreed over the agitation for the return of Nigeria to the regional form of government. They expressed their views at the sidelines of the ongoing two-day retreat on the amendments to the 1999 constitution organised by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal Advocacy …

As one of Marvel’s most powerful characters, the prospect of Lady Death joining the MCU is very exciting. Marvel Studios has never shied away from killing off some of the MCU’s biggest characters, with any number of villains, and notable heroes such as Quicksilver, Gamora, Black Widow and Iron Man having bitten the dust. However, …

Daud Olatunji The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has liquidated a total of 651 banks over the last three decades, according to Pamela Roberts, Deputy Director of NDIC’s Enugu Zonal Office. PLATFORM TIMES reports tbst the  liquidation  of the failed banks was carried out following the revocation of their licences  by the Central Bank of …

Hamster Kombat, the largest and the most anticipated crypto airdrop of the year finally launched after months of active mining by over 300 million players.  The hamster project airdrop which created a lot of buzz due to its community size ended in disappointment for lots of its players following very abysmal earnings   The project was heavily …

BORIS Johnson is “no longer sure” lockdowns worked in tackling Covid.

The former PM said he believes the restrictions “had some effect” but did not fundamentally change things.

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Former PM Boris Johnson is ‘no longer sure’ lockdowns worked in tackling Covid[/caption]

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Prof Sir Chris Witty fears Mr Johnson’s government failed to convey the threat level of the pandemic[/caption]

He said: “There were always two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly enforced, or Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.”

In his upcoming memoir Unleashed, serialised in the Mail on Sunday, he added: “Maybe there are limits to human agency.

“Maybe it isn’t possible for government action to repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

“I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some effect.

“But were they decisive in beating back the disease, turning that wave down?

“All I can say is that I am no longer sure.”

His words come after Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, told the Covid inquiry this week that he now fears Mr Johnson’s government failed to convey the threat level of the pandemic correctly when it began.

This week, the Tories meet in Birmingham for the annual party conference — with the four leadership hopefuls facing activists.

Writing in The Sun on Sunday today, Robert Jenrick — vying to replace Rishi Sunak — said he wants to give a tax cut to White Van Man and small businesses.

A FORMER Harrods worker claims bosses made girls wear pearl necklaces as a signal they were available to leering men, including Mohamed Fayed.

The ex-sales assistant got a job at the luxury store through an agency in 2006 when she was 17 and still at sixth-form.

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An ex-Harrods worker claims bosses made girls wear pearl necklaces as a signal they were available to leering men, including Mohamed Fayed[/caption]

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Fayed was exposed as a serial sexual predator who raped and sexually assaulted young Harrods workers by a BBC documentary[/caption]

But she said she left just weeks later because of the toxic environment — and after she spotted paperwork that listed her bra size and said she had “limited personality”.

The ex-employee said: “It was made clear to me that I had to wear a uniform.

“This consisted of high-heels, a trouser suit, full face of make-up including red lipstick — and a pearl necklace.

“I asked a friend about the pearl necklaces and she said it was to identify us as available and that if men were interested, they could contact the agency.

“They were effectively trying to pimp out girls to rich men, and I got the impression it was not just Fayed who was interested in the young workers.”

Fayed was exposed as a serial sexual predator who raped and sexually assaulted young Harrods workers by a BBC documentary last week.

The former shop worker also told The Sun on Sunday: “It is disgusting what has come out — but not that surprising to anyone who worked there.

“I was one of the lucky ones, and I left after a few weeks.”