The whole of England should be in Tier 4 Sage expert warns

Scientists have warned that the whole of England should be put into Tier 4 immediately to stop the spread of the new mutant coronavirus strain that was first detected in Kent.  SAGE have said thousands more people will now be infected in the new year, with one of their experts Dr Zubaida Haque today questioning … Read more

Revellers in Tier 2 Liverpool and York brave stormy weather to head out for some Boxing Day drinks 

All right for some! Revellers in Tier 2 Liverpool and York brave the stormy weather to head out for some Boxing Day drinks Revellers in Liverpool and York braved freezing temperatures to enjoy themselves after Christmas Day  In places spared strict Covid restrictions, crowds flocked to pubs and bars   Under tier 2 rules, people … Read more

Boxing Day hunts still go ahead but under stringent Covid rules while tradition suspended in Tier 4

A small number of Boxing Day hunts still went ahead today under stringent Covid rules, despite the tradition being cancelled across large parts of the UK in Tier 4 lockdown. The annual sporting activity, which usually sees dozens of hunts meet across the country, looked very different this year with reduced participation and town centre … Read more

Shoppers start queuing at 4AM for Boxing Day sales but Tier 4 restrictions mean millions can’t go

Shoppers started queuing at 4am today for the Boxing Day sales but the amount spent is expected to plummet by 26 per cent on last year despite a £1.8billion spending splurge online. Britons were spotted lining up outside Next stores in Liverpool, Birmingham and North Tyneside as they hunted for bargains at the retail giant. … Read more

Millions move into Tier 4 to combat mutant Covid strain

Millions of people will move into Tier 4 today after those already under the tightest coronavirus restrictions celebrated a Covid Christmas any way they could.  Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire will move into Tier 4, created in response to a variant of Covid-19 discovered in the UK, from Saturday. The parts of Essex still … Read more

‘You are so not in London!’: Louise Thompson is accused of breaking Tier 4 restrictions

‘You are so not in London!’: Louise Thompson is accused of breaking Tier 4 restrictions by fans after she shares snap ‘posing in a quiet street in Devon’ but tags the capital as her location By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 15:04 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 15:05 GMT, 24 December 2020 Louise Thompson … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit London 24 hours ahead of capital’s Tier 4 travel ban

Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit London 24 hours ahead of capital’s Tier 4 travel ban to spend Christmas in his Richmond constituency Chancellor swapped Downing Street for North Yorkshire last Friday afternoon  The next day Boris Johnson introduced Tier 4 with travel ban on the capital  On Monday Labour demanded a public statement on economic support By David … Read more

Lockdown restrictions in Tier 2 cut the spread of Covid-10 by just 2%, study shows

Lockdown restrictions in Tier 2 cut the spread of Covid-10 by just 2%, study shows By Xantha Leatham For The Daily Mail Published: 01:33 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 01:35 GMT, 24 December 2020 Tier Two restrictions in England in the autumn only cut the reproduction rate of Covid-19 by 2 per cent, a … Read more

JANET STREET-PORTER: Tier 4, 2021, mutant strains – bring them all on

Is this the worst Christmas ever? As most of the country enters Tier 4 from Boxing Day, l’m trying to look on the bright side, find light in the gloom, things to be cheerful about. After all, I’m not spending the next two days holed up in a smelly lorry cab parked on a disused … Read more

Hancock puts six million MORE people into Tier 4 as Oxfordshire and East Anglia join Home Counties

New areas entering Tier 4 from Boxing Day Surrey: Waverley West Sussex: All East Sussex: Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden districts, plus Brighton and Hove Hampshire: Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire,  Eastleigh, Fareham, Hart, Rushmoor, Test Valley,  Winchester, Southampton Essex: All apart from Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring, which are already in Tier 4 Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire Oxfordshire  … Read more