Ministers are set to reveal a list of countries exempted from the coronavirus quarantine while Boris Johnson will warn the public to act “responsibly” when the lockdown eases. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will outline on Friday that people returning to England from Spain, France, Italy and Germany will be exempted…
Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday and accused of helping the disgraced financier “identify, befriend and groom” multiple girls British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appeared in court accused of facilitating long-time associate Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual exploitation of underage girls. Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday and…
Ed Sheeran, The Rolling Stones and Sir Paul McCartney are among 1,500 music artists and acts calling for urgent Government action to prevent the end of the UK’s “world-leading” live music industry. The open letter, addressed to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, says that with concerts and festivals unlikely to return…
The rapid rise of coronavirus cases in Leicester could have been driven by community transmission rather than caused by a specific outbreak, a report has found. Public Health England found “no explanatory outbreaks in care homes, hospital settings, or industrial processes” after the rise in infections led to the UK’s…
Schools in England are expected to be told to overhaul the curriculum, stagger break times and group children into “bubbles” when they return to the classroom. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is due to announce the plans for getting all pupils back after the summer following up to six months at…
Business minister Nadhim Zahawi said Government and firms should cooperate to ensure access to coronavirus treatments. Donald Trump’s administration in the US has bought up virtually all stocks for the next three months of remdesivir, a drug shown to work against Covid-19. Mr Zahawi said the UK had “rightly” stockpiled…
The RNLI has issued a warning after two fridge-freezers were “dumped” in water off the coast of Aberdeen and mistaken for wreckage. Reports of wreckage in the small harbour in Cove, five miles south of the city, were made at 8.20pm on Tuesday. The crew of six on the Severn-class…
After 100 days in lockdown, we look at some of the numbers that have shaped the experience. – When the UK’s lockdown was announced on March 23, the cumulative number of deaths involving Covid-19 that had occurred in the nation up to that date was 1,000. There had been 950…
An aristocrat and his estranged wife are waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on their long-running Scotland versus England legal battle. Charles Villiers and Emma Villiers, who lived near Dumbarton and separated after 18 years of marriage, are divorcing in Scotland But they disagree about whether arguments over money should…
Boris Johnson is to face a fresh grilling over the Government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic amid confusion over the reimposition of lockdown controls in Leicester. One hundred days after restrictions came into force across the country, ministers are facing questions over whether they were too slow to act following…