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Amazon limiting shipments to certain types of products due to COVID-19 pandemic

Amazon’s   ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ (FBA) program, through which it provides warehousing and shipment services for products from third-party sellers, was well as its larger vendor shipment services, are being partially suspended through April 5 due to the global coronavirus outbreak. This suspension will allow Amazon to prioritize shipment of “household staples, medical supplies and other high-demand products” the company said in a  support document on its website , and confirmed to TechCrunch in an email. The commerce giant notes in the email that it is “seeing increased online shopping” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and will focus on prioritizing the reception, restocking and delivery of the essential products that are most in demand from this new uptick in activity from Amazon shoppers. For all other products, Amazon says it’s disabled the creation of new inbound shipments for FBA members, as well as for retail vendors (their business-to-business selling platform).

Tom Brady leaving the Patriots: Why Brady vs. Belichick will be the last great battle of the dynasty

play Damien Woody details why Tom Brady may want to partner up with Bruce Arians in Tampa Bay. (0:40) Ian O'Connor ESPN Senior Writer Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Deep down,  Tom Brady  needed to find out. So did Bill Belichick. Together they had run out of opponents to conquer and mountains to climb. They had to break up to answer the only question left about the most successful partnership in NFL history. Who was more vital, the quarterback or the coach? The sports world has already been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic,  postponing and canceling games and events throughout the globe . Nothing can shock us any longer as fans, and yet this day is still a doozy. Brady rocked pro football with the most stunning defection the sport has ever seen, leaving his six-ring circus, the  New England Patriots , for a  free-agent deal with a team to be named later . That's right, if ol' No. 12 wins Super Bo

Trailblazer playwright on the need to keep black British history alive

In 2003 Winsome Pinnock was described as the "Godmother of Black British playwrights" - and the label has stuck. She has a new play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester which digs into attitudes in Britain to the historical slave trade between Africa and the Caribbean. Pinnock has encountered several people lately who were convinced British playwrights had already written about British involvement in the African slave trade - finally outlawed in 1833. "In fact until recently almost no one here had written about it," she says. "I suspect people remember certain films or they think of the African American plays which have been produced over the years. But that's not our story." By "our story" Pinnock means all Britons, regardless of skin colour. "This year there have been at least three new plays which do focus on Britain and slave trading but it's new territory. People should think about what that omission says about o

Plan to extend early prisoner release scheme

The government is planning to extend a scheme which allows some prisoners to be freed early to ease pressures in jails across England and Wales. Under the programme, certain inmates jailed for less than four years can be let out before the halfway point of their sentence. They are made to wear an electronic tag and abide by a curfew. Ministers want to increase the maximum period for which they can be released from four-and-a-half to six months. An official estimate, carried out last year, said it would lead to a "spike" of about 600 in the number of prisoners who are freed early. Last Friday, 2,718 prisoners were on the scheme, which is known as home detention curfew (HDC). The timing of the announcement is likely to fuel speculation that it is linked to fears of a possible outbreak of coronavirus in prisons, but sources insisted the two were not connected and it was instead related to wider capacity concerns. Emergency coronavirus plan for prisons 'More&#

'My father kept Parkinson's a secret, I haven't'

When sports broadcaster Dave Clark was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the same age as his father - 44 - he knew he couldn't keep it a secret. His dad, Alan, had been so worried about the stigma around it at the time that he didn't tell anyone and eventually took his own life. Alan Clark, was a sales rep in Bradford when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a neurological disorder that attacks the area of the brain which controls movement. It was the 1980s and he was worried he would lose his job if he disclosed he had the disease. He continued to work full-time to provide for his wife and two sons. Even when he turned up to meetings with hands that shook so much he was accused of being drunk, he still refused to reveal what was going on. Alan's son, Dave, a Sky Sports presenter, says: "He went to the doctors by himself, didn't eat with the family because he was worried about his shakes. He didn't tell anyone he had Parkinson's, including me. &