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Olympics: Greece gets its first gold!Professional Greek rower Stefanos Ntouskos has scored team Greece’s first Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medal and first podium finish overall.
EU health body warns against visiting popular Greek islands over COVID-19Greece's south Aegean islands were marked dark red on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's COVID-19 map on Thursday after a rise in infections, meaning all but essential travel to and from the region is discouraged.Greek Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said later on Thursday... the situation was also worrying on the islands of Zakynthos... Lefkada
Greece’s Coast Guard Sends Bill to Rescued CoupleAfter rescuing a couple from the sea off Kalo Limenes, Crete, last weekend, the Greek Coast Guard sent a bill for its services so that the taxpayer-funded agency can be reimbursed for its trouble.A major search and rescue operation had been launched on Saturday for the 45-year old man and his 39-year-old girlfriend, who had set out on the water off Crete despite a small boat advisory posted by the Coast Guard.
'Brighton cat killer' Steven Bouquet jailed for stabbing 16 petsA security guard has been jailed for more than five years for stabbing 16 cats in a series of night-time attacks.Steven Bouquet killed nine cats around Brighton between October 2018 and June 2019. Seven more were injured.
UK faces ‘summer of disruption’ to milk supplies amid lorry driver shortagesArla, UK’s biggest dairy supplier, unable to deliver to hundreds of stores last weekSupermarkets could face a “summer of disruption” to milk deliveries if the government does not act to address a shortage of lorry drivers, the boss of the UK’s biggest dairy supplier has said.
Greece sends police to Covid hotspot islands to step up controlsParty islands Mykonos and Ios could be shut down as Delta variant infection rates surge among young peopleSome 186 law enforcers have been sent to Mykonos alone, up from the 56 stationed there this time last year.