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• Multiple vehicles burn in Sun Valley auto recycling yard SUN VALLEY — A fire damaged multiple vehicles Wednesday in an outdoor area at a recycling yard in Sun Valley, and a firefighter suffered a minor injury while battling the flames. Firefighters sent to the 11200 block of Vinedale Street at 12:34 p.m. extinguished the fire in 23 minutes, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. No structures were damaged. A firefighter was taken to a hospital for treatment of a minor injury, the LAFD reported. The cause of the fire…
• Care home residents allowed to hold hands with indoor visitor from March 8 One regular visitor per care home resident will be allowed from March 8 (Picture: SWNS/PA)Care home residents in England will be allowed regular visits from one person when Boris Johnson’s ‘roadmap’ to easing lockdown begins on March 8. They will be able to hold hands and socialise indoors, although hugging and kissing will not be permitted and the visitor will have to wear PPE. Visitors will also have to take a coronavirus lateral flow test before they can enter. Health…
• The Bachelor Blows Up! Matt Cries! One Suitor Quits! The Bachelor really is going through it these days. We're talking not just about the franchise, either, amid an ongoing racism scandal that has engulfed the Season 25 favorite and also the only host the show has ever known. We're also talking about The Bachelor himsellf, Matt James. Shortly after James addressed the Rachael Kirkconnell-Chris Harrison saga on Instagram, he went on a quartet of hometown dates with his final four. Sort of. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the series…
• A year into the pandemic, Uber and Lyft drivers say gig companies are still failing them. They blame Prop 22. (UBER, LYFT, DASH, GRUB) Summary List PlacementRideshare and food delivery drivers are planning to protest Wednesday outside Uber's headquarters in San Francisco, California, over what they say is gig companies' continued failure to protect them nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Drivers for Lyft, Instacart, Uber, and Uber subsidiary Postmates said in a press release announcing the protest that the companies aren't providing adequate PPE and have refused to pay them for the time it takes to clean their vehicles. They said that…
• Tributes paid to couple killed in house fire with four-year-old girl Kaylie and Daniel Rudge were killed in the fire along with their toddler (Picture: Backgrid/SWNS/Irving of Exeter)Tributes have poured in for a ‘funny, caring and loving’ couple who died in a hosue fire along with their four-year-old daughter. Kaylie Rudge, 28, her husband Daniel, 29, and toddler Lily, were named by neighbours as the victims of the horrific blaze at their home over the weekend. Three other children – two boys aged four and nine, and a seven-year-old girl –…
• Ronnie O’Sullivan comments ‘didn’t go down well’ with Welsh Open final opponent Jordan Brown Ronnie O’Sullivan ruffled plenty of feathers at last year’s World Championship (Picture: VCG via Getty Images)Jordan Brown is hoping to prove Ronnie O’Sullivan wrong in the Welsh Open final after saying the Rocket’s comments at the World Championship were ‘annoying’ and ‘didn’t go down well’ with him. Brown has spectacularly upset the odds to reach the final at Celtic Manor, beating Mark Selby in the quarters and then Stephen Maguire in the semi-finals to set up the clash with the…
• Major fire breaks out at warehouse in Manchester with people urged to shut windows Fire broke out at the warehouse in Denton, Greater Manchester (Picture: MEN)People living nearby have been told to close their windows and doors and some are being evacuated after a major fire broke out at a warehouse in Greater Manchester. Over 100 firefighters from across the area have been scrambled to the blaze at a warehouse in Denton. Residents reported a huge plume of smoke coming from a three-storey warehouse on Holland Street this afternoon. It is so big that…
• Two-alarm fire engulfs San Jose grocery store, leaves eight residents displaced SAN JOSE — A two-alarm fire at a grocery store near Almaden Boulevard left eight residents displaced and the future of a local artist’s mural uncertain Saturday morning, authorities said. Neighbors near Sidhu Market at 801 Locust St. noticed smoke emanating from the store around 6:45 a.m. and called the fire department, Capt. Brad Cloutier said. The small grocer has occupied the ground floor for more than 15 years, with three apartment units above on the second floor. Crews arrived…
• ‘It was scary, I’m not going to lie:’ Mike Fiers gets candid about free agency experience Mike Fiers was candid about the uncertainty he faced during free agency this year. The A’s brought him back for his third season in green and gold, this time on a one-year, $3.5 million deal. But, in a pandemic-impacted offseason, Fiers was one of many free agents concerned that the market wouldn’t be kind to him. That the phone might not ring with the right offer. “It was scary, I’m not going to lie,” Fiers said on a Zoom call…