Updated: 30 Jan 2021, 21:39
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A FITNESS influencer couple have been slammed after boasting about catching one of the last flights from the UK to Dubai.
It comes after the UK government added the UAE to its red list of travel destinations and launched a poster campaign telling Brits: Going on holiday is currently illegal .
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Fitness influencers Mark Ross and Jessica Riffat have been criticised after getting on one of the last flights from the UK to Dubai
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It comes as a new government poster campaign tells Brits that going on holiday is currently illegal
Mark Ross and Jessica Riffat, who both run online fitness programmes, reportedly flew to Dubai from Manchester on Thursday.
Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 9:49
OFFICES in England saw 500 coronavirus outbreaks in the second half of 2020.
There have been more cases of Covid-19 in office settings than supermarkets, construction sites and restaurants combined, new data has shown.
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Offices have been found to be the most susceptible to Covid outbreaksCredit: Getty Images - Getty
England’s lockdown rules state that Brits “may only leave your home for work if you cannot reasonably work from home.”
However essential workers in critical sectors have been allowed to travel into work.
But data from a BBC investigation shows that the Health and Safety Executive received almost 4,000 Covid-related complaints about workplaces in the last month alone.
Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 20:30
HARRY Potter is doing a wizard job of helping to prop up the UK economy while many leading businesses were crippled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Creator JK Rowling was among the super-rich paying markedly less than in previous years but she still poured £34.8million into the public purse.
The staggering sums in tax paid by Britain s super-rich
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Entrepreneur James Dyson paid £115 million in taxCredit: PA:Press Association
It is £14million down on the previous year owing to the closure of theatres and theme parks but she still earned £72.5million.
She has previously spoken out against “greedy tax exiles” and pledged all the royalties from her latest book, The Ickabog, to charities hit hardest by the pandemic.
Pope Francis told to stop eating pasta and go on diet to cure his sore back
Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 23:57
POPE Francis has been urged to cut out pasta and to diet to help cure his long-term back pain.
Doctors have told the food-loving Pontiff, 84, to lose at least 1st 4lbs to ease his sciatica amid rumours he may need an operation if he does not.
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Pope Francis has been told to cut out pasta and go on a dietCredit: AFP
He has had to miss engagements in the Vatican because of the pain and it is feared a long-planned trip to Iraq in March may also be axed.
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Updated: 30 Jan 2021, 1:31
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THREE sightings of the Loch Ness monster have been logged already this year.
The first was on January 11, but enthusiast Eoin O’Faodhagain believes he’s seen it twice since then.
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Enthusiast Eoin O’Faodhagain says he s spotted the Loch Ness Monster three times in 2021Credit: Deadline News
He spotted it splashing about eight days later, when he says the beast was visible for 20 minutes.
And on January 22, he watched on webcam as two shapes, about 100ft apart, swam in the lake.
It’s his most exciting sighting ever, he says as he believes two of its four flippers are visible on the footage.