Matt Hancock discusses coronavirus risk to those in their 60s It comes as Home Secretary Priti Patel announced a crackdown on Britons who flout coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The Cabinet Minister addressed the nation at a televised Downing Street press conference. We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy […]
UK lockdown: Police officer calls on public to ‘do their bit’ England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty warned stricter measures to help curb the new variant, which is rapidly spreading across the UK, could soon be brought in. He hinted Britons could be made to wear masks outside as there is a “risk” of […]
Britain is set for 40 hours of snow and gale force winds as temperatures drop as low as -12°C in the coming days. The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings lasting nearly two days in the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with a foot of snow expected in some places. Meanwhile the […]
Royal Mail has released a ‘Covid blacklist’ of areas that are no longer receiving regular post during the pandemic. The 28 zones – made up of 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland – are suffering from limited delivery services because of the high numbers of sick or self-isolating mail staff. The affected areas […]
Two thugs who punched and stabbed a vulnerable man and threatened to slice his eyelids off have been jailed. Joshua Wise, 21, and Stuart Keeling, 24, barged their way into the victim’s groundfloor flat in a late night robbery. They pushed him onto the bed and demanded he hand over his phone and bank card […]
A police officer who boasted of giving ‘good customer service’ has been jailed for having sex with a crime victim while on duty. Emerson Estridge, 46, abused his position to target vulnerable women for his own sexual gratification, Birmingham Crown Court heard. The West Midlands Police officer sent explicit messages to victims, offered to meet […]
A shocking number of deaths and widespread abuses at religious institutions in Ireland for unwed mothers and their children was revealed in a government-commissioned report released Tuesday, a measure that survivors say is a small first step toward accountability after decades of horrors. The report, the culmination of a six-year investigation, detailed some 9,000 deaths […]
Zara Tindall sums up Princess Anne in ‘three words’ The Princess Royal and her older brother Prince Charles had a particularly unusual upbringing. Their mother, then Princess Elizabeth, suddenly ascended the throne when they were just toddlers. The Queen was subsequently pulled away to fulfil her royal duties as they were growing up, as was […]
Brexit: John Redwood urges Boris to ‘ban’ EU super trawlers After almost a year of negotiations and multiple missed deadlines, Britain and the EU secured a post-Brexit trade deal at the end of December. Announced on Christmas Eve, Mr Johnson described it as a “jumbo Canada-style” deal and declared: “All our red lines about returning […]
A massive explosion was heard in London and Cambridge from a fighter jet’s sonic boom. Residents have described their houses ‘rocketing’ and ‘shaking’ after the jet ‘made a hell of a bang’. A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object travels through the air faster than the speed […]