Court to rule on Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou

Judge expected to rule within days on court battle between HSBC and Chinese telecoms heiress Meng Wanzhou over secret documents By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 14 February 2021 A judge is expected to rule within days on a court battle between HSBC and … Read more

Police set up checkpoint on London’s Putney Bridge spotting Covid rule breaks and motoring offences

It’s Checkpoint Putney! Police set up roadblock on west London’s Putney Bridge and target Covid rule breakers as well as motorists driving without tax or insurance Police officers pulled over hundreds of cars travelling over Putney Bridge today  Operation aimed to spot people committing motoring offences, such as no tax During the exercise they also … Read more

Boris Johnson refuses to rule out trade war with EU as row over ban on British shellfish grows 

Boris Johnson refuses to rule out trade war with EU as row over ban on British shellfish grows European Commission criticised for barring the sales of British caught shellfish  The shellfish can only be transported to Europe if treated at a purification plant Environment Secretary George Eustice yesterday denounced the shellfish ban By John Stevens … Read more

Ministers rule out coronavirus vaccine passports

Vaccine passports will NOT be issued by the Government but people travelling to countries which require proof they have had a jab will be able to ask their GP for written evidence Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi today ruled out introducing vaccine passports But he said that people will be able to ask their GP for … Read more

Covid rule flouter Rita Ora faces fierce backlash over Australia trip

Rita Ora’s arrival in Australia has been greeted with a fierce backlash amid claims she was given special treatment to allow her into the country.  Ora arrived at a Sydney hotel for two weeks of forced quarantine on Monday ahead of filming for her role as a coach on The Voice.  Australia’s shadow home affairs … Read more

Police raid drum n’ bass rave in Bristol and fine 13 rule flouters £800

This is the moment police disrupted an illegal drum ‘n’ bass rave in Bristol and handed out £10,400 worth of fines – while elsewhere officers caught 15 women at a Soho pyjama party. Officers arrived at the house on Tyndalls Park Road in Bristol at 2.30am on Saturday to find more than 50 people inside. … Read more

Covid UK: Police fine rule flouters in the Cotswolds ‘because they can’t go shopping in London’

Police fined Covid rule-breakers £200 for driving 150 miles to the Cotswolds because ‘it is very hard to go shopping’ in London as the crackdown on lockdown flouters during the third national shutdown continues.  In Gloucestershire, police fined tourists from London in Lower Slaughter and walkers at popular destination Bourton-on-the-Water yesterday. An irritated Cotswold Police … Read more

Gavin Williamson to ‘rule out pupils return after February half-term’

Now children might not return to school until after EASTER: Gavin Williamson will ‘rule out pupils going back into classrooms after February half-term’ within days All children had been set to return to schools after the February half-term Sources suggest reopening could be pushed back until mid-April or even May  Students in GCSE and A-Level … Read more

Confusion as Downing Street refuses to rule out diverting vaccine supplies from successful areas

Boris Johnson’s vaccine strategy was mired in confusion today amid claims that supplies to areas that have been the quickest to inoculate the most vulnerable will be diverted to slower areas to allow them to catch up. Britain’s Covid vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi this morning denied reports  that jabs are being diverted from the fasted parts … Read more

Nadhim Zahawi brands Pimlico Plumbers’ boss Charlie Mullins ‘discriminatory’ over Covid jab rule

Nadhim Zahawi brands Pimlico Plumbers’ boss Charlie Mullins ‘discriminatory’ for demanding his staff get the Covid vaccine before they are allowed to work for the firm – as minister insists jab must be voluntary Mullins said he would insist staff had the jab to protect workers and customers  Zahawi attacked his decision today, saying: ‘We’re … Read more