Matt Hancock today hit out at ‘totally irresponsible’ Londoners who fled to the capital last night after Boris Johnson effectively cancelled Christmas for around 16 million people in southern England. The Health Secretary sighed and shook his head as Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme showed him social-media images of large crowds queueing on … Read more
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
Teaching union slams Government’s ‘undeliverable’ plans for mass Covid-19 testing in schools from January as senior Tory MP warns decision to stagger return of pupils will mean ‘more lost learning’ and will ‘sow confusion’ Government announced pupils’ return to secondary schools will be staggered Staggered return in January to give schools time to set up … Read more
Seven people are arrested as police break up ‘traveller funeral’ mass gathering that breached Tier 3 lockdown rules at east London pub Crowds of ‘hundreds’ descended on a pub in Hackney Wick, east London tonight Metropolitan Police arrested seven amid breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules Witnesses suggested those in attendance may be from the traveller … Read more
Robotic underwater gliders will be sent to investigate the massive iceberg presently on a collision course with the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, experts said. Dubbed A68a, the enormous mass — some 87 miles (140 km) in length — broke off from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017 and has been drifting north ever … Read more
Loyal members of the Chinese Communist Party are working in British consulates, universities and for some of the UK’s leading companies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. An extraordinary leaked database of 1.95 million registered party members reveals how Beijing’s malign influence now stretches into almost every corner of British life, including defence firms, banks … Read more
Dr Tom Jefferson, pictured, said he has received a stream of unsettling letters and emails from members of the public who are testing positive for Covid-19 despite having recovered from their symptoms For the past few weeks I have received a stream of unsettling letters and emails from members of the public. They are all … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing is being rolled out in secondary schools in coronavirus hotspots in North East London, South Essex and Kent from today. The launch comes after official data showed pupils aged 11 to 18 were fuelling the winter surge of infections in the capital and South East England. The Department of Health said ‘hundreds … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing in Slovakia slashed infection rates by 60 per cent in a week during a national lockdown, according to a study. Rapid tests were given to 5.2million people, almost the entire population (5.5m), with those who tested positive or refused to take a test forced to quarantine at home for 10 days. Operation … Read more
Domestos, Dove, Persil and Surf are among Unilever’s best known products. They are also some of the trusted brands that we turned to in lockdown when big names spelled reassurance. But, since the beginning of the year, the consumer goods company’s shares have gone almost nowhere. Strange, because when people took a break from cleaning, … Read more