Government’s Green housing plan under fire as developers claim it is ‘unworkable’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:54 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 6 March 2020 Government plans for a ‘green housing revolution’ are unworkable, developers have warned. Ministers want tough standards to slash the carbon footprint of new … Read more
A lifeline for small firms crippled by coronavirus: Bank of England and Treasury draw up plan for emergency loans By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 4 March 2020 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 4 March 2020 Plans to provide emergency loans to stop small firms going bust during the coronavirus crisis are … Read more
Six million may miss work Employers encouraged to allow staff to work from home where possible. The battle plan warns that staff sickness will have a major impact on business and public services. At the peak of an epidemic as many as one in five could be off sick at any one time – equal … Read more
Police could ignore low-level crime and troops could be deployed on the streets as part of the government’s dramatic ‘battle plan’ if coronavirus takes hold in the UK – amid warnings it could incapacitate a fifth of the workforce. Patients not suffering from the disease could also be sent home from hospital, and local authorities … Read more
Swathes of Britain including cities and towns could be put on lockdown to try to stop the spread of coronavirus as Boris Johnson vowed to take charge of the Government response after being accused of acting like a ‘part-time Prime Minister’. After UK cases hit 36 yesterday – an increase of 23 since Friday – Mr Johnson will … Read more
Retired doctors and nurses could be asked to return to NHS while millions of workers may be ordered to work from home under new UK coronavirus ‘battle plan’ Cemeteries are drafting plans to cope with a rise in bodies across the country Scientists will host Cobra meetings in the Cabinet Office’s ‘war room’ Government set … Read more
Propping up the bar at the Brewery Tap pub in the Hertfordshire village of Furneux Pelham, I see that a quiet revolution is taking place. After handing over my debit card, I am presented with a foaming pint of the local Mad Squirrel Sapling ale – along with four crisp £20 notes. I am raising … Read more
Parliament could be suspended under secret plan for worst-case coronavirus scenario with Boris Johnson running Britain ‘from a war bunker’ Boris Johnson and his Cabinet would use emergency powers to battle pandemic MPs and peers would be told to stay at home in secret contingency plans One MP feared such a scenario would leave the … Read more
A cancer patient who cashed in his pension and planned his own funeral after being told his illness was terminal has now discovered he will live. Peter Hinds, 51, from Warrington, was diagnosed with inoperable intestinal cancer in January 2017 and doctors told him he could have just six months left to live. Having lost … Read more
‘I just remember I was in a taxi, with a fishing rod and some chicken’: Paul Gascoigne breaks his silence on his ‘mad’ plan to befriend Raoul Moat at the height of the killer’s stand-off with police Paul Gascoigne made a taxi driver take him to Rothbury where Moat was Didn’t know Moat but thought … Read more