GCSE students will be awarded with their teacher’s predicted grades despite calls to have their results delayed in the wake of the A-level results fiasco. Pupils will be able to take the higher of either their adjusted grade or their estimate mark after the regulator Ofqual confirmed England would follow steps already taken by Scotland, … Read more
Another 13 people have died of Covid-19 in England’s hospitals but no-one else has died of the illness in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, officials revealed today. Scotland today marked four full weeks without a single death from coronavirus north of the border, according to its official government statistics. A full round-up of the total … Read more
Teddi Mellencamp’s five-month-old daughter Dove set to have neurosurgery on Thursday for her rare skull development condition Teddi Mellencamp spoke about her daughter Dove’s Thursday neurosurgical procedure on Wednesday’s Teddi Tea Pod podcast ‘We need to be at the hospital at 5:15[a.m.] and she’s not allowed to have a bottle before her 7am surgery,’ said … Read more
British officials have confirmed another 45 coronavirus deaths today in the preliminary toll, taking the nation’s official number of victims to 43,951. The count, which only includes a fraction of the fatalities in England, was announced by adding up the updates by NHS England, Public Health Wales and the Scottish and Northern Irish governments. A full … Read more
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had ordered an ‘expedited’ FBI investigation into the ‘tragic’ death of George Floyd, the black Minnesota man who died in custody when a white police officer kneeled on his neck He appeared to suggest he had personally ordered the probe, which was announced by the FBI a day earlier, and … Read more
Boris will DROP drop the ‘track’ in ‘test, track and trace’ system that is designed to get Britain out lockdown and it will not be fully ready in time for deadline Ministers told to drop the ‘track’ after negative reaction from focus groups Boris Johnson suggested a test and trace system would be in place … Read more
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is set to tell the country on Thursday the coronavirus lockdown will last until at least May 7. The First Secretary of State, who is deputising for Boris Johnson while the PM recovers from his fight with the bug, will tell Britons they face at least three more weeks of restrictions, … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon today appeared to confirm that the UK will be staying in a state of coronavirus lockdown for the foreseeable future as she said: ‘We must stick with it.’ The UK government is due to make a decision on whether to extend social distancing restrictions beyond an initial period of three weeks by the … Read more
Boris Johnson is beginning his road to recovery from coronavirus at his Chequers country estate today as the Cabinet is divided on when the Prime Minister should return to work. Mr Johnson was released from hospital yesterday and was taken to his grace and favour home in Buckinghamshire where he is under strict doctors’ orders … Read more
Spain has ordered its hotels to shut by next Thursday, throwing British tourists into uncertainty with flights heavily reduced. Hotels and other ‘short-stay accommodation’ are being shut down in Spain’s latest draconian step to halt the spread of the virus. Spanish authorities have already begun converting hotels into makeshift hospitals as they battle an outbreak … Read more