Coronavirus UK: Meetings banned in Oldham, Blackburn, Pendle

Households in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn will be banned from socialising together from midnight tonight as the Government announces new measures to stop the localised spread of coronavirus.  The Government said it had agreed the tougher restrictions with local leaders, with residents now being told not to meet with anyone from outside their own household.  … Read more

Ashley Olsen  goes business chic in a silk skirt and beige blouse after attending meetings in NYC

Ashley Olsen goes business chic in a silk skirt and beige blouse after attending meetings in NYC By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com and Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 02:45 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 02:45 BST, 7 August 2020 She was recently nominated for two CFDA awards, alongside her twin sister Mary-Kate, for their … Read more

Matt Hancock says SAGE and COBRA meetings no longer control government decisions

Matt Hancock announces further plans to downgrade SAGE by confirming the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is taking over Britain’s coronavirus response – as he dismisses plans to reform Public Health England before winter The Health Secretary would not put a date on when the last time COBRA met MPs looked concerned that the emergency committee … Read more

Businessman awarded peerage by Harold Wilson had ten years of meetings with Czech spies

A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more

Farmer reveals vicars hire ‘Mary’ the goat for Zoom meetings for virtual church every Sunday

A farmer who started hiring out her goats for Zoom meeting calls as a joke to try and cheer people up amid the coronavirus pandemic has revealed how vicars book ‘Mary’ out for virtual church every Sunday. Speaking to presenters Ruth and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning, Dot, from Lancashire, explained how people from across … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: VR Education in prime spot as demand for virtual meetings lifts off

Conference organisers have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns, but one answer is to hold events online or even better in virtual reality. VR Education specialises in this type of technology and for the AIM-listed business, this period of enforced homeworking might prove to be a company maker. A month ago, for example, it ran … Read more

Boris Johnson was ‘driving’ response despite ‘skipping’ FIVE Cobra meetings, says Gavin Williamson

Boris Johnson was ‘driving’ the government’s coronavirus response despite ‘skipping’ five Cobra meetings at the start of the outbreak, Gavin Williamson insisted tonight.  The Education Secretary defended the PM’s handling amid a mounting backlash at the slow action in gearing up to the looming crisis. Mr Johnson has been accused of taking a backseat role … Read more

Boris Johnson ‘missed five Cobra meetings on coronavirus’

Boris Johnson has come under renewed scrutiny for his lackluster coronavirus preparations after it was revealed he skipped five Cobra crisis meetings in the weeks leading up to Britain’s outbreak. The Prime Minister was accused of taking a backseat role in the early planning phase to shore up the country’s pandemic response, despite mounting concern … Read more