It’s Merry Floodmas! Communities could be cut off as four inches of rain is predicted

It’s Merry Floodmas! Communities could be cut off as four inches of rain is predicted and fears grow of further landslips after 600 tons of rock fell from a 100ft cliff near songwriter Billy Bragg’s £2.4m home This truck had to force its way down a submerged road near Welney in Norfolk yesterday The Met … Read more

Russian hackers target Ministry of Defence, Home Office and police

Russian hackers target Ministry of Defence, Home Office and police through attack on computer company serving public sector bodies Russian hackers are thought to be behind a ‘very serious’ cyber security breach Some 40 government agencies were infiltrated by hackers, Microsoft said Operation began in March but confirmation UK was targeted came yesterday  By Emer … Read more

Shops could be shut and commuters ordered to work from home under a Tier Four regime

Shops could be shut and commuters ordered to work from home under a draconian Tier Four Covid regime. The plans are being drawn up as a way of avoiding a third national lockdown – but would contain curbs as tough as those seen in previous shutdowns. Officials are alarmed by the deadly surge in virus … Read more

Hospitals’ fears over rise in Covid-19 patients

Hospitals in virus hotspots are now treating up to three times as many Covid-19 patients as they did at the peak of the first wave. Experts said that we are seeing the start of a third wave as hospital bosses warned of further ‘mass cancellations’ of routine operations and appointments. Latest Department of Health figures … Read more

Hospitals have record numbers of coronavirus patients amid fears over NHS capacity

Hospitals are seeing record numbers of coronavirus patients as fears over NHS capacity saw Boris Johnson refuse to rule out a third lockdown. ‘We’re hoping very much that we will be able to avoid anything like’ a third lockdown in the new year, the Prime Minister said, but added: ‘the reality is that the rates … Read more

Mass testing for coronavirus is not an accurate way to screen the population, health minister warns 

Mass testing for the coronavirus is not an accurate way to screen the whole population, health minister Lord Bethell warns Lord Bethell wrote that asymptomatic testing could give ‘false reassurance’  Government previously announced expansion of asymptomatic mass testing  Lord Bethell wrote to a constituent to say it was not an accurate way to screen    He … Read more

Sea sense, Barnier! Boris Johnson urges the EU to drop demands on fishing 

Boris Johnson will hold fresh Brexit talks today after the latest bid to break the deadlock on fishing fell flat. The Prime Minister is expected to warn European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen that failure to accept Britain’s right to control its own fishing grounds will sink hopes of a trade deal. Mr Johnson … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Holy mackerel… is fishing a reason to scupper a Brexit trade deal? 

Sir Edward Heath is the Conservative Prime Minister who sold out Britain’s fishermen in 1973 to take us into what became the European Union. Boris Johnson does not want to be remembered as the one who sold them out to take us out. That is one of the main reasons for what appears to be … Read more

Strictly’s Bill Bailey has inspired Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon to appear on the next series

Strictly finalist Bill Bailey has inspired Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon to appear on the next series – as the comic admits he wanted to break ‘dad dancing’ stereotypes By Sarah Packer For Mailonline Published: 00:01 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 00:06 GMT, 19 December 2020 Bill Bailey has inspired Gavin and Stacey … Read more

Ski holidays are off after the Swiss government banned UK tourists in the New Year

Ski holidays are off after the Swiss government banned UK tourists in the New Year due to ‘high-risk’ Covid-19 infection rate Thousands of ski holidays have been abruptly cancelled after the announcement Switzerland had been open to British visitors until now thanks to travel rules But the UK will not be treated under the EU’s … Read more