Wales ‘could be plunged into a circuit-breaker lockdown in the next few days’ as ‘unenforceable’ travel ban comes into effect tonight Wales currently has 17 areas under higher local lockdowns than the country But businesses have asked for more details about future direction of restrictions First Minister Mark Drakeford said visits from high-level Covid areas … Read more
Greater Manchester and Lancashire could be the next regions to be put under the Government’s highest tier of new local coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Ministers, councillors and medical experts are expected to hold a ‘gold command’ meeting today to discuss moving the North West areas up from tier two to three. As the three-tier Covid-19 alert … Read more
A national ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown lasting two weeks is being considered for Scotland this Friday. An NHS source has claimed they have been briefed for it to start at 7pm that day in an effort to curb coronavirus‘s rampage. But it would come as the First Minister is warned a new national lockdown would take … Read more
Downing Street was panicked into a full national lockdown after its scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were given doomsday mortality projections by Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson, an explosive new biography of Boris Johnson by investigative author Tom Bower reveals. Bower tells how a critical meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) … Read more
Childhood vaccinations have plummeted in the US amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new report finds. Between March and May 2020, 1.7 million fewer vaccinations for children up to age two – who are covered under Medicare or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – were administered. That’s a 22 percent decline from the same time … Read more
The areas of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Blaenau Gwent will be placed under a local lockdown following an increase of coronavirus cases, the Welsh Government has announced. Health minister Vaughan Gething said there had been a ‘worrying and rapid rise’ in cases of Covid-19 in the four areas in south Wales. The measures – … Read more
Labour has narrowed the Tory lead to just two points this week as support for the Boris Johnson and the Conservatives dropped after the Government’s exams fiasco. A YouGov poll found that public support for the Tories had dropped four points to 40 per cent while Labour was up three to 38 per cent from … Read more
University admissions departments now face a ‘major headache’ amid the chaos of a Government U-turn on the way A-level results are awarded – and the scrapping of a temporary cap on how many students they can accept. English universities had only been allowed to recruit 5% more UK students than their targets this year in … Read more
Thousands more people may die of cancer after urgent hospital referrals plunged by 250,000 during lockdown compared with last year, report warns As less patients see GPs with symptoms, cancer picked up too late, experts fear GPs made 339,242 urgent referrals for cancer between April and June in England More than 200,000 fewer than 594,060 figure … Read more
Families in a cliffside community where a house plunged off the edge in a landslide have been told to move as the council ‘will do nothing’ to save their houses. Mum-of-five Emma Tullett was left heartbroken as her dream £195,000 Spanish villa-style bungalow – ironically named Cliffhanger – collapsed over four days in May, making national headlines. Emma, 42, her … Read more