Santa’s grottos will be open in ALL tiers – but youngsters will be told to stand well back and not sit on Father Christmas’s knee in case they give him coronavirus Santa’s grotto may open in shops, garden centres and department stores This is because all non-essential retail is permitted across all tiers ‘Covid-safe’ rules … Read more
No doubt like many of you, I have spent the last few days trying to get my head around the Government’s latest response to coronavirus, and the fact that, for the most part, it seems to have gone down like a dry cough in a crowded train carriage. And I’ve concluded that, when it comes … Read more
Michael Gove has warned that every hospital in England would be overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases if new lockdown tiers are not introduced. The Cabinet Office Minister urged MPs to ‘take responsibility for difficult decisions’ to curb the spread of Covid-19, amid anger from some Conservatives that much of England will face stringent restrictions. Mr Gove … Read more
Poor Alice. After falling down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world of contradiction and threat, she was totally confused in Wonderland — and who can blame her? By the time that funny old Caterpillar asked who she was, Alice had stopped believing in anything at all. She told him: ‘I hardly know, Sir, just … Read more
Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure to change course on his coronavirus lockdown plans tonight after another sharp fall in infections. As scores of Tory backbenchers threaten to rebel in a crunch vote next week, the latest figures showed the UK had 16,022 more cases – down more than a fifth on last Friday’s number. … Read more
Around 17million people living in parts of England that have seen their coronavirus outbreaks shrink for at least two weeks in a row will be plunged into the toughest tiers next week when the country’s lockdown finally ends, MailOnline’s analysis has revealed. As many as a third of England’s authorities – 51 out of 149 … Read more
An official graph laying out coronavirus outbreaks across the country suggests there are parts of the North of England and Midlands that could be ‘de-escalated’ in January. The chart, published by Public Health England, shows that some parts of the country are seeing the fastest falls in infection rate and health bosses are monitoring their … Read more
How close is YOUR area to moving up or down the Covid tiers? Government graph shows how infection rates vary across England as officials say ‘continued improvement’ may mean parts of the North are de-escalated in the New Year Public Health England graph shows sliding scale of infection rates with a clear divide between tiers … Read more
And so came the tiers. There was no actual blubbing in the chamber when Matt Hancock announced his post-lockdown restrictions yesterday. Some Tory MPs looked jolly close to turning on the waterworks though. Blimey, were they cross! The Health Secretary had just announced that all of them – barring members for Cornwall, the Isles of … Read more
Just imagine that this time last year someone had described to you what Britain would look like in December 2020. They would tell of a country in which vast swathes of the population had spent endless months locked down at home. Where one business after another was heading for the wall, where children were being … Read more