From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell … Read more
Hotels in London will offer 300 beds to rough sleepers for 12 weeks to help protect them against coronavirus The mayor’s office is working with IHG to block book rooms at a discounted rate Beds offered to vulnerable people already known to homelessness charities Rough sleepers are far less likely to be able to follow … Read more
‘You’re witnessing a miracle that even medical professionals can’t explain’: Rugby Union star Michael Fatialofa’s wife revels after Worcester lock walks unaided just TEN WEEKS after being ‘paralysed’ from serious neck injury Michael Fatialofa suffered a serious neck injury when Worcester faced Saracens The injury occurred in January, when the 27-year-old had just come onto the … Read more
No one speaks of la dolce vita any more — and it will be some time before they do. In less than a month, Italy has changed beyond all recognition: it feels like we’re in a war-zone. The country has a population of 60million and has suffered more deaths from Covid-19 — 4,032 — than … Read more
Boris Johnson plans to buy ‘hundreds of thousands’ of antibody kits – which can tell if anyone has EVER had the killer disease – after being accused of not testing quickly enough PM urged members of the public to heed the advice to keep up social distancing Mr Johnson also revealed British scientists will soon … Read more
What could happen in a London lockdown? LIKELY RESTRICTIONS Tougher advice on ‘social distancing’, urging everyone to stay at home unless absolutely essential; Asking shops, cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars to close to minimise the risk of people gathering; Scaling back transport services while leaving enough capacity for unavoidable journeys and key workers to reach … Read more
What could happen in a London lockdown? LIKELY RESTRICTIONS Tougher advice on ‘social distancing’, urging everyone to stay at home unless absolutely essential; Asking shops, cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars to close to minimise the risk of people gathering; Scaling back transport services while leaving enough capacity for unavoidable journeys and key workers to reach … Read more
Worldwide coronavirus infection toll hits 200,000 after doubling in less than two weeks Cases of the highly contagious virus exceeded 203,000 on Wednesday morning The global toll reached six figures on March 7, two months after outbreak began But cases doubled in space of 11 days amid fears pandemic can’t be contained Coronavirus symptoms: what … Read more
One of the top cancer hospitals in the US is running low on masks as eight patients and staff members are diagnosed with coronavirus. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City hast just one week’s supply of masks left, according to BuzzFeed News. Politicians and health experts have been asking the general public … Read more
British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from Iranian prison today as part of prisoner release. The 42-year-old was among thousands of prisoners temporarily released from jail by the government in Tehran because of the coronavirus outbreak, her husband said. She serving a five-year prison term in Tehran for sedition after being arrested in April … Read more