Denmark will reopen schools and day care centres on Wednesday as it relaxes coronavirus lockdown

Denmark will reopen schools and day care centres on Wednesday as it relaxes lockdown after number of coronavirus cases stabilises The country has seen deaths and hospital admissions stabilise in recent days Measures including restaurant closures will remain in place for at least a month Denmark’s PM, Matte Frederiksen, said it will be ‘a bit … Read more

Coronavirus fly-tipping soars as recycling centres close with staff wanting key worker status

Households have been urged not to undertake major clear-outs during the coronavirus lockdown to stop the rise in fly-tipping. There have also been calls on the Government to designate recycling centre workers as part of an essential service, to help prevent the problem. It comes as fly-tipping has surged as much as 300 per cent as … Read more

It should be teeming – but like all of Britain’s locked down garden centres, it is a ghost town

The wallflowers are looking magnificent. The tulips and primulas are in full bloom. All around me are beds and tables full of magnificent plants in the best of health – thousands of them – and all waiting for a good home. Except there is no one here today, apart from Colin Campbell-Preston, a man who … Read more

Three immigration removal centres on coronavirus lockdown

Three detention centres across the UK are detaining people with coronavirus symptoms, it has been revealed today.  Brook House immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick Airport, Morton Hall in Lincolnshire and Harmondsworth in west London are all affected, according to the BBC. Detainees at the centres claim they have been left without soap and unable to protect … Read more

Germany is now using drive-thru centres to swab patients for coronavirus

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of … Read more

Vigilante hacks into Indian criminal call centre’s CCTV to show fraudsters laughing

A hacker gained access to an Indian call centre’s CCTV footage to reveal the scammers laughing as they fleeced their weeping British victims.  The cyber vigilante, who uses the alias ‘Jim Browning’, went through hundreds of hours of video footage from the office in Gurugram, near Delhi, and listened to 70,000 phone calls.  Footage given to … Read more