TANKING
JIMMY FALLON
THE US late night host has apologised after video resurfaced of him wearing blackface during a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch. Jimmy wore dark make-up in the scene, where he portrayed comedian Chris Rock. He tweeted: “In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this.”
DRIVING TO TEST YOUR VISION
POLICE and opticians have been quick to make it clear that taking your family for a drive to test your vision a la Dominic Cummings is not advisable. The government special adviser claimed testing his eyesight was the reason for taking a drive to Barnard Castle with his wife and child in the middle of lockdown.
GOOGLING ILLNESS SYMPTOMS
MILLIONS of us get “dangerous” advice online when checking a mystery illness, researchers claim. Symptom checkers, dubbed ‘Dr Google’, give a correct diagnosis just 36% of the time, they found.
THE RETAIL INDUSTRY
RETAIL sales plummeted by a record 18.1% in April, latest official figures reveal today. The worst hit sector was clothing and fashion with sales down 50.2% compared with March.