Coronavirus UK: Comparison traffic maps show empty cities are

Amazing maps show how locked-down London is EMPTY of traffic – compared to last Good Friday before coronavirus struck TomTom showed traffic in the capital, Manchester and Birmingham was down on Thursday compared to 2019 This suggests most people are following the Government’s lockdown instruction not to visit tourist hotspots The images for the Thursday … Read more

Designer who answered the cry for NHS masks is caught in a red tape dogfight

Designer who answered the cry for NHS masks with a fighter pilot-inspired model is caught in a red tape dogfight with fabrics firm Cambridge-educated designer Julian Hake was told the special fabric needed had been sold abroad, then the fabric could not be adapted to meet standards This newspaper has seen a leaked Don and … Read more

The ‘Coughing Major’ WAS a cheat, says CHRIS TARRANT

First broadcast on ITV in 1998, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was a massive ratings hit.  Today, however, the family game show is best remembered for the ‘Coughing Major’, a showbusiness scandal that caught the public imagination like no other.  In 2001, a serving British Army officer came within a whisker of cheating his … Read more

Carrie Symonds sent baby scans to Boris Johnson’s hospital bed while he watched Withnail

Carrie Symonds has sent Boris Johnson pregnancy scans of their unborn baby as he continues to recover from the coronavirus in hospital. Ms Symonds, 32, also wrote to the Prime Minister as it was revealed he has been up and about on a ward in St Thomas’, central London. Mr Johnson was doing ‘short walks’ … Read more

‘Codswallop’: Fury at ‘lockdown busting’ Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick grows

The row over the Cabinet minister accused of breaking lockdown rules escalated last night after neighbours rubbished claims that the mansion where he is staying is his main home.  Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, a key player in the Government’s coronavirus response, claimed he had not flouted his own advice by travelling 150 miles to the … Read more

Robert Jenrick faces fresh claims he broke lockdown rules as Herefordshire home is his holiday home

The Cabinet minister accused of breaking lockdown rules came under fire again last night after neighbours said the mansion where he is staying is just his occasional holiday home.  Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, a key player in the Government’s coronavirus response, claimed he had not flouted his own advice by travelling 150 miles to the … Read more

NHS medics fighting the coronavirus are forced to cut up plastic curtains and use them as gowns

NHS medics fighting on the coronavirus frontline are forced to cut up plastic curtains and use them as gowns as PPE shortage rages on Health Secretary had previously said 742m units of PPE had been delivered Medics claim they are having to create their own PPE from plastic curtains Intensive care staff being cut because … Read more

BBC donates fully working ventilators from the set of Holby City to the new Nightingale Hospital

The BBC has donated fully working ventilators from the set of medical drama Holby City to the new Nightingale Hospital in London The corporation shared the news in a tweet, showing workers loading equipment into a van. Holby City executive producer Simon Harper said: ‘We are only too happy to help out and do what … Read more

Pope Francis presides over Way of the Cross service in front of a deserted Saint Peter’s Basilica

Pope Francis presided at a ‘Way of the Cross’ service held in an empty Saint Peter’s Square on Friday because of the coronavirus outbreak and listened as both prisoners and their victims recounted their sorrows. It marked the first time the procession, commemorating the last hours in Jesus’ life, was not held at Rome’s ancient … Read more

New ‘upskirting’ law puts four men behind bars

New ‘upskirting’ law puts four men behind bars following a high-profile campaign to make specific powers to combat the disturbing practice By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:32 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 23:50 BST, 10 April 2020 Four men have been jailed in the year since the ‘upskirting’ law was introduced in England … Read more