NHS 'to be asked to treat patients without gowns' | Task force launched to help speed up vaccine efforts | Over 18,000 currently in hospital with virus

MasterChef: BBC One cookery show chooses 2020 champion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52329700

Joseph Brown CBE (26 September 1930 – 15 April 2020) was a British climber and mountaineer who was regarded as an outstanding pioneer of rock climbing during the 1950s and early 1960s. Together with his early climbing partner, Don Whillans, he was one of a new breed of British post-war climbers who came from working-class backgrounds in contrast to the upper and middle class professionals who had dominated the sport up to the Second World War.

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The VVankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion. All parts rotate in one direction, as opposed to the common reciprocating piston engine, which has pistons instantly and rapidly changing direction 180 degrees.

Kitty's mum RIP bro

1704, from French piston, from Middle French piston "large pestle," from Old Italian pistone "a piston," variant of pestone "a pestle," from pestare "to pound," from Late Latin pistare, frequentative of Latin pinsere (past participle pistus) "to pound" (see pestle). As a verb from 1930.

Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years.

The rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on 27 May, taking two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Both the rocket and spacecraft were developed by private company SpaceX.

Nasa has been using Russian rockets for crewed flights since its space shuttle was retired in 2011.

If successful, SpaceX – headed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - will become the first private firm to send Nasa astronauts into space.

The Falcon Nine rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will take off from the space centre’s historic Pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and shuttle missions.

https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/420910

Gray pays tribute to 'truly great' Hunter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/52332190

A new drug for recovering heroin addicts is being rolled out across Wales to prevent them having to make daily trips to over-stretched pharmacies.

Buprenorphine can be given as a monthly injection instead of alternatives such as methadone which are given daily.

Wales is the first UK nation to routinely offer the drug.

One woman on the treatment said: "You just feel well... your life is your own again."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1SR3GeCYLM

Jean Vivra Gray (20 July 1924 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Vivean Gray, was an English-born Australian television and film actress. She appeared in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock, but her best-known roles were in TV soap operas, including: Ida Jessup in The Sullivans, Edna Pearson in Prisoner and Nell Mangel in Neighbours. She retired in 1988, moving back to her native England to Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, where she lived a quiet and private life.

Steven Earl "Steve" Gaines (September 14, 1949 – October 20, 1977) was an American musician. He is best known as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew. He was the younger brother of Cassie Gaines, a backup vocalist with the band.

Home energy use is up by up to 30% during the middle of the day, new analysis by energy firms reveals.

Much of the population is working from home and schools have closed, meaning home computers and televisions are busier than ever.

The highest peak is at lunchtime, when cooking is added to the power consumption of working from home.

But overall, the country is actually using less energy because of businesses being closed.

John Lindsay Collins (21 January 1949 – 14 April 2020) was a Welsh professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth, Dallas Tornado, Halifax Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Kidderminster Harriers and represented Wales at schoolboy and seven occasions at Under–23 level.

Bruce Alan Woyan (June 14, 1959 – February 7, 1992) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buzz Sawyer.

The top Mexican league, Liga MX has scrapped promotion and revelation to/from the Ascenso second division. Many Ascenso clubs were already unable to meet league guidelines regarding finances, were they to be promoted. This was seemingly compounded by Covid related league shut downs.

The top Mexican league, Liga MX has scrapped promotion and revelation

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Shocking turn of events

Watched Clueless last night, Bales.

How was that?

I've been watching Sunderland Till I Die. Brilliant stuff.

Bet you fancy Simon Grayson.

Obvs. He's no Chris Coleman, though.