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Scotland 'to bring in two-week circuit breaker on Friday at 7pm'

A ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown is reportedly set to come into force in Scotland by the end of this week. Medics are understood to have been told to prepare for a two-week lockdown from Friday, following a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. It comes after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said further restrictions could be announced in […]

Pippa Middleton pregnant: Key way Kate’s sister’s birthing differed to Duchess

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Speculation continues to grow over which figure within the Royal Family will follow Princess Eugenie and announce they are expecting. Eugenie, and husband Jack Brooksbank, stunned Windsor fans after they confirmed the […]

Navalny says Russian authorities poisoned him as threat ahead of Parliament elections

MOSCOW (REUTERS) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said he believed Russia’s intelligence services had poisoned him with a Novichok nerve agent because authorities saw him as a threat ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. “They understood that there were big, big problems threatening them ahead of elections for the State Duma,” Mr Navalny said in […]

Coronavirus: Excess deaths involving COVID-19 rise for third week in a row, ONS says

The number of registered deaths that involved COVID-19 in England and Wales has risen for the third week in a row, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics says a total of 215 coronavirus-related deaths were registered in the week to 25 September. In the week before, there were 139 COVID-19-related deaths registered, […]

Social care crisis: 17,000 OAPs sell homes to fund their care

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. If they sold for the average £254,000 price of a three-bedroom semi, collectively they would have raised £4.3billion last year, it was said. The cost of residential care has shot up and […]

Boris Johnson launches green revolution – new jobs in major revolution

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. And he will claim that a massive push to “build back greener” in the economic recovery from the coronavirus emergency could create millions of hi-tech jobs. The Prime Minister is expected to […]

COVID warning: UK cities are on the BRINK – Liverpool mayor pleads for help

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. “It’s not just Liverpool – it’s Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield and Nottingham – all of us.” Last week city chiefs in Leeds and Manchester warned the Prime Minister that local restrictions […]

Brexit border in Ireland could lead to violence, spies warn MPs

LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – Any customs or security checkpoints imposed on the Irish border after Brexit would immediately become targets for attacks by dissident Republican groups and risk violence in Belfast, a UK parliamentary committee said. In a report published on Monday (Oct 5), the Intelligence and Security Committee highlighted interviews with MI5 – the agency […]

Meeting the woman who trolled me online

A few weeks ago, in a chilly London plaza, I met a woman called Becky*. The smart, affluent-looking, 30-something mum smiled warmly as she approached me. We’d never met before. But until fairly recently, Becky had been trolling me online. Imagine if a group of strangers spent up to 16 hours a day feasting over […]