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Technical Editor Tom first clipped into a mountain bike at the age of 13, after his dad realised that the 'cool' looking supermarket MTB was probably a bit rubbish, and that building a bike from spares bought from the village bike shop would be a good father-son project. He's not looked back since. Over the years, Tom has worked on all our cycling titles - road and moutain. Never one to say no to daft ideas, in his time Tom has raced fatbikes for 16 hours across Lapland in winter, competed in a 3-day EWS qualifying enduro in Lesotho, worked out that shaving his legs saves 8 Watts in a wind tun...

Register-Mail named 2nd best small daily in Illinois The Register-Mail was named second best small daily newspaper in Illinois in one newspaper contest Friday and in another its Black Voices series was named best writing entry among all the state’s mid-sized newspapers. The results of two contests were announced Friday. The Register-Mail had already reported its 16 awards in the Illinois Press Association contest when they were announced in April. Stories in the Black Voices of Galesburg series earned five of the 16 awards. Those awards were read aloud during the virtual conference Friday a...

play-icon Video report by ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen The UK is still on track to follow the roadmap out of lockdown despite a setback involving the AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister said he'd seen no evidence to suggest any need to delay any planned lifting of coronavirus restrictions. He was speaking to reporters in Cornwall after the UK's medicines regulator said the AstraZeneca vaccine should only be given to the over-30s, amid concerns it could cause blood clots in younger people. Following the Medicines and Healthcare pro...

The syndrome has been reported in people aged from 18 to 79. Of those, 51 were women and 28 were men. There is some evidence the risk of the side effect decreases as people get older. However, the main reason for drawing a line at age 30 and below relates not to a person's increased risk of the side-effect - it is after all exceedingly rare - it's to do with the balance of risk and benefit of having the vaccine. Regulators have concluded that above the age of 30, the risk of serious harm or death from Covid is higher than the very small risk of a potentially fatal blood clot. Below the age...

Thursday April 8, 2021, 12:20 PM ITV Science Editor Tom Clarke answers the key questions about the AstraZeneca vaccine. You can watch above or listen to it as a podcast below Some European countries have restricted the vaccine use in younger people following reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) – a specific type of clot that prevents blood from draining from the brain, as well as low platelet counts – cells that help blood clot. Here's what Wednesday's developments mean for the vaccine rollout: What has been announced? The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will, for the time being,...