Man Utd’s Marcus Rashford wins campaign for free school meal vouchers
The UK government has made a U-Turn after Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford stepped up the campaign pressure demanding an extension of free school meal vouchers over the holiday period. A ‘Covid […]
Black Lives Matter: George Floyd’s family mourns at private funeral, and other stories
George Floyd’s family speaks about injustice and America’s time for change. In a private funeral that was broadcast live on Tuesday in Huston, Texas, Floyd’s niece, Brooke Williams, made an impassioned […]
Transport Secretary defends PM chief special advisor Dominic Cummings and other stories
Cabinet Minister says allegations Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules are false Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says claims by the Guardian/Observer and Mirror that Dominic Cummings made a second trip to Durham during […]
Women charged with murder of seven-year-old in Bolton to appear in court, and other stories
Woman charged with the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Queen’s Park, Bolton in Greater Manchester. Elton Skana, who is 30 years old, has been charged with murdering seven-year-old Emily Jones in […]
The Final Word: Nasser Hussain
Captaining the England cricket team is an honour only a small number of people have experienced. 80 people to be exact, spanning back to 1876. A role which has only been handed […]
Superdrug to be the first shop to offer Coronavirus antibodies test and other stories
Superdrug to be the first high street retailer to offer Coronavirus antibody test Tests will begin today and will detect positive antibodies 97.5 percent of the time. The test will be sold via […]
Death sentencing over Zoom in Singapore and other stories
Man sentenced to death on Zoom in Singapore Singapore has sentenced a drug suspect to death on the popular video chat app Zoom because of the city-state’s coronavirus lockdown. The move has […]
President Trump threatens WHO with 30 days to ‘substantially improve’, and other stories
President Donald Trump gives World Health Organisation a 30 day ultimatum In a four page letter addressed to the director general of The World Health Organization (WHO), President Trump has accused […]
Huge rise in unemployment benefit claims due to impact of coronavirus and other stories
Huge rise in unemployment benefit claims due to impact of coronavirus Official figures have shown a surge of 856,500 people submitting benefit claims last month as the coronavirus crisis took its toll […]
Anti-Asian hate crimes up 21% in UK during Coronavirus emergency and other stories
Ministers have told MPs that hate crimes against the south and the east Asian communities in the UK have increased by 21% during the coronavirus pandemic. Police estimates suggest a threefold increase […]
Russian construction industry returns to work amid continuing COVID-19 crisis and other stories
Russian building workers given green light to go back to work Even though most of the Russian economy is in lockdown and hospitals struggle to cope with coronavirus deaths, the country’s construction […]
London Victoria Station worker dies from coronavirus after being spat on and other stories
A ticket officer at Victoria station, Belly Mujinga, has died just 14 days after being spat on by someone claiming to have the virus. Her family says the attack took place on […]
Wuhan to test all of its 11 million residents and other stories
The Chinese city of Wuhan is working on plans to test all of its 11 million residents for Covid-19 according to state media. It comes after a cluster of six new cases […]
UK furlough scheme extended by four months and other stories
Government furlough scheme to continue until October Councellor Rishi Sunak announced in Parliament that furloughed employees will continue to be paid until October this year. He added that the level of support, […]
Black people are ‘four times more likely to die’ from COVID-19 than white people and other stories
Black people are ‘four times more likely to die’ from COVID-19 than white people A new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found that some ethnic groups have a […]
Dutch Football cancelled until COVID-19 vaccine is discovered and other stories
Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge confirms supporters will not be allowed to attend football matches in the Netherlands until there is a COVID-19 vaccine. Sport across the country is currently postponed […]
Australian company fined $63,000 for false claims about COVID-19 testing kits and other stories
Australian company fined $63,000 for false claims about COVID-19 testing kits Promedical Equipment Pty Ltd based in Queensland, Australia, has been fined $63,000 by health authorities for false claims about Covid-19 test […]
Flooding in Africa kills more than 200 people and other stories
Flooding in Africa kills more than 200 people Both Kenya and Uganda have been hit by deadly flooding. It is expected that more than 200 people have died as a result. Recent […]
New study warns one million under-25s face unemployment and other stories
A report by the Resolution Foundation think tank has estimated youth unemployment in the UK could rise by 640,000 this year. This would take the total to above one million. Latest official […]
German Bundesliga to restart this month and other stories
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel confirms the German Bundesliga season can restart this month The Bundesliga (DFL) will be the first major European league to return to competition. The players returned to training […]
Russia discusses withdrawing lockdown measures as Coronavirus cases rise and other stories
Russia has now become the country with the 6th most Coronavirus cases in the world. Image: Getty Images.
Boris Johnson pledges 200,000 virus tests a day and other stories
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to reach 200,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of May. The government announced it had hit its target of 100,000 tests on Friday, […]
Plea for help from Capital of Brazil’s Amazon region over COVID pandemic and other stories
Mayor of Amazon rainforest region pleas for help as COVID-19 pandemic devastates their health system The mayor of the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest region has appealed for international aid because […]
Coronavirus testing opens for millions more people in England and other stories
Since the government has loosened rules on who can apply for a coronavirus test millions more in England have become eligible to apply for a test. This means that care home staff […]
Poland begins lifting their lockdown next Monday and other stories
Poland to re-open schools and shopping malls next week Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says the country’s hotels and shopping malls are going to open from Monday. Poland is easing restrictions imposed to […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and fiancé Carrie Symonds announce the birth of their son and other stories
Baby son for Prime Minister Boris Johnson A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister has said that both the mother, Carrie Symonds, and baby are ‘doing very well.’ She said the PM and […]
Legendary Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan passes away at 53 in Mumbai and other news
Legendary Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan passes away at 53 in Mumbai The famous Bollywood Actor Irrfan Khan has died. He had been admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital with a colon […]
UK coronavirus care home deaths continue to rise to record levels and other stories
Care home death figures continue to rise Following the outbreak of coronavirus, deaths continue to reach record high numbers in UK Care Homes. The Office of National Statistics and The Care Quality […]
New Zealand starts to ease lockdown measures and other news
New Zealand has begun to gradually lift some of the restrictive measures imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus in the country over the last month. People are able to travel to […]
UK holds one minute silence for key workers who have died from COVID-19
UK holds one-minute silence for key workers who have died from COVID-19. A minute’s silence has been held across the UK at 11 am, commemorating key workers who have died from COVID-19. […]
Prime Minister’s Question Time returns to the House of Commons with social distancing and COVID deaths in the UK now more than 17,000
PMQs return to a socially distancing Parliament in COVID-19 crisis Britain Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will grill Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over the Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis today. The […]
UK coronavirus deaths now falling and so is trend in hospitalisations
UK announces 449 more coronavirus deaths – the fewest for a fortnight The trend in deaths and hospitalisation is now downwards with a ‘flat-lining’ on government graphs. NHS England announced that the […]
Government says attack on ‘heart and soul’ Prime Minister Boris Johnson over COVID-19 crisis handling ‘grotesque’
NHS Protective clothing shortage crisis intensifies while UK government furiously defends its performance The UK government has been hitting back at a growing storm over poor handling of the coronavirus crisis while […]
888 more people die in UK hospitals as minister says parks must remain open and loved ones can attend funerals
Sunday Times investigation alleges Prime-Minister Boris Johnson was asleep on the job during five crucial weeks the UK could have planned for pandemic As Mr Johnson recovers from life-threatening COVID-19 at Chequers […]
Is it now nearly 7,500 deaths in UK care homes as well as 15,000 in hospitals?
Leading industry body fears as many as 7,500 people may have died contracting coronavirus in UK care homes. Care England, which represents independent care firms, said it had collected data which suggested […]
UK lockdown extended for at least three more weeks and another 861 daily hospital deaths
Lockdown Britain continues for at least another three weeks and daily hospital death rate still high at 861. The Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab said at Downing Street’s daily coronavirus news briefing, Mr […]
UK Gears Towards Three-Week Lockdown Extension and other stories
The Government is expected to announce an extension to the lockdown later today. The extension will last three weeks and is not likely to be relaxed before a vaccine is discovered. Labour […]
New government policy on testing in care homes and right to say goodbye for loved ones
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announces ‘right to say goodbye’ to loved ones dying from coronavirus in care homes and hospitals. The UK’s cabinet minister in charge of health, Matt Hancock said ‘wherever […]
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak- Tough times ahead: ‘We can’t protect every business and every household.’
Government sends out stark warning after financial watchdog anticipates loss of two million jobs The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting that the coronavirus lockdown could leave more than two million people […]
UN World Health Organisation says COVID-19 is ten times more deadly than swine flu- call for global ‘solidarity, solidarity.’
It’s the return of the working week in the UK after the Easter weekend, but the working is anything but normal. It’s day 23 of the emergency restrictions and another 717 have […]
Fourth week of UK lockdown begins in a world changed beyond recognition- where Easter is preached from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s kitchen
UK deaths exceed 10,000, PM tells the country his battle with COVID-19 ‘could have gone either way’ but for two NHS angels, and the Archbishop of Canterbury gives his Easter sermon from […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanks nurses and doctors who saved his life
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after treatment that included four days in Intensive Care. Before continuing his recuperation at Chequers, Mr Johnson recorded an Easter Sunday broadcast thanking […]
Daily death rate from COVID-19 in UK horrendous- fears it might become worst in Europe
Death rate in this country is now horrendous with daily rate of dying more than in Spain and Italy. Projections suggest at least another 10,000 people will lose their lives with their […]
It’s the deadliest day, but there may be worse to come, and UK musters ‘Herculean’ operation on protective equipment for health workers
Number of deaths in UK has risen by 980, bringing the total to 8,958 The UK death toll has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain. And it […]
Another grim daily death toll and the challenge to Manchester police with 494 house parties and 166 street parties during lockdown
Number of deaths in UK rises by 881 – a total of 7,978 people have now died in hospital, does not include people dying in care homes First secretary of state Dominic […]
NHS prevent staff from speaking out, organ transplant crisis and other stories
NHS staff have been banned from speaking publicly about their work against the coronavirus. It’s been reported that healthcare professionals have been threatened with disciplinary measures for discussing the coronavirus. There have […]
Rohingya camps in Bangladesh put in lockdown to fight coronavirus and other stories
Rohingya camps in Bangladesh under lockdown over coronavirus Bangladesh has enforced a complete lockdown on Cox’s Bazaar, a southern district home to over a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. District head Kamal […]
Khamenei: Ramadan gathering in Iran may be forbidden
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has suggested mass gatherings in the Islamic Republic may be banned through the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic. BREAKING: Iran’s supreme leader […]
Suifenhe enters lockdown and other stories
Chinese city, Suifenhe, enters lockdown as the rest of the country relaxes restrictions. As the rest of China tentatively opens up its borders, Suifenhe, which borders with Russia, is entering lockdown. This […]
UK economy contracted before COVID-19 crisis
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has stated that UK GDP dropped by 0.1% in February, before the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. Official statisticians say that poor weather impacting the […]
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