Foreign doctors and nurses working in the NHS have their visas extended for a year so they can stay to help save the lives of coronavirus suffers Visa due to end on or before October 31 will automatically be extended for a year Medics are currently working their socks off helping save lives in pandemic … Read more
With the Prime Minister confined to the Number 10 sick bay, Dominic Raab was entrusted with Monday’s daily Downing Street press briefing. It was not so long ago Mr Raab was staking his claim to be the occupant of this Georgian property. There was an irked, irritable air as he took to the lectern. Ah, … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 5,300 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 140,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type … Read more
‘Smoking gun’ text reveals Foreign Office AGREED to let Harry Dunn’s killer fly home ‘on the next flight’ ‘Smoking gun’ text shows UK official agreed to let Anne Sacoolas escape justice Harry Dunn’s family have taken legal action against the UK Foreign Office The department has disclosed incendiary text message to London’s High Court It … Read more
Beijing today ordered people arriving in the city from any country to go into 14-day quarantine as China reported an increase in imported coronavirus cases, threatening its progress against the epidemic. China has made major strides in its battle against the virus, prompting President Xi Jinping to visit Wuhan, the central city at the heart … Read more
Mystery death of a Swedish woman on a Scottish beach – which sparked various conspiracy theories – takes a new twist as it emerges it has been declared top secret by her government Annie Borjesson, 30, was found face down and fully clothed on Prestwick Beach Scottish and Swedish authorities suspect suicide; her family do not … Read more
Why wouldn’t Barclays let me close my account and move £38,000? Customer left waiting EIGHT weeks to transfer foreign currency Robert Cooper closed his main Barclays current account in 2017 Last December, he tried to close three foreign currency accounts and move cash For eight weeks a string of bank employees told him he was … Read more
Foreign Office reveals the oddest calls from Britons abroad in 2019, from a request for 50 Cent’s phone number to a complaint about an in-flight meal One woman called asking what to wear to an event being held at Windsor Castle Another person asked embassy staff to retrieve headphones left in a hotel room A … Read more
None of the remaining 700-plus guests at a hotel in Spain’s Canary Islands on lockdown over the coronavirus have shown any symptoms of the virus and 130 of them have been cleared to leave the building, a spokesman for the regional government said on Thursday. The guests at Tenerife’s H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel have … Read more