Your World of Legal Intelligence
 United Kingdom | +44 (0) 20 7284 8080

A NEWKY WAR? NO PROBLEM

Document Cited in Related
Vincent
Published date23 January 2022
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
Shock figures uncovered by the Daily Star Sunday show that one in five of them is expecting to face a world-ending event

Thousands of us say we are ready for events such as nuclear war, economic and social collapse, natural disaster or even a zombie invasion.

And Newcastle can today be revealed as Britain's Armageddon-fearing capital, with more people there stocking up on food and weapons than anywhere else.

It comes as the Doomsday clock - calculated by scientists to symbolically count the time until the end of the world - revealed we're the closest we've ever been to disaster.

The north-east is best prepared for such an event, with a 32% spike in people building basement shelters.

Samuel Hunt, from construction firm Materials Market, said: "It's interesting to see that those prepping for doomsday are based mainly in the north. It seems more Brits than ever are taking their survival into their own hands." With war looming between Russia and Ukraine, the climate crisis and the pandemic, experts put the Doomsday clock's minute hand at 100 seconds to...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT