Home Office reveals new powers to tackle people flouting the coronavirus lockdown Up to two years in prison if you cough deliberately on someone after spate of attacks on police and emergency service workers People who continue to flout coronavirus lockdown rules will be breaking the law and can be arrested as part of new … Read more
Lisa Marie Presley stays toasty in a fleece as she makes a grocery run with her daughters… after fostering two puppies amid coronavirus isolation By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 22:40 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 26 March 2020 She’s the daughter of one of the most influential singers to ever live … Read more
Rishi Sunak finally unveiled a multi-billion-pound coronavirus bailout for millions of stricken self-employed workers tonight – but left hundreds of thousands just above a ‘cliff edge’ cut-off wondering how they will make ends meet. Ken Price, 50, who works as a roofer across London and the southeast, said he was concerned people were being made … Read more
Slack messaging software hits record number of active users as employees across the world work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic Slack messaging software has hit a record number of active users Its instant messaging software now has 12.5 million active users That’s an increase of 2.5 million active users in the last 10 … Read more
Linda Lusardi has ‘beaten’ coronavirus, according to her husband Sam Kane. The former Page 3 girl, 61, was rushed to hospital earlier this week, where she has been suffering with COVID-19 and attempting to keep her fans updated from her sickbed. But on Thursday night, Sam posted a statement that assured followers that, despite still having … Read more
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press £20, 384 pp) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press £20, 384 pp) This is Maggie O’Farrell’s first foray into historical fiction, and, as with her contemporary work, it’s the ebb and flow of emotions that carry this heartbreaking, beautifully written story along on its melancholy current. On a hazy … Read more
NATURE Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager (University of Chicago Press £20, 272 pp) Are we in the right mood just now for reading about natural disasters? Actually, it’s when you think things can’t get any worse that a book explaining just how much worse they can get is genuinely bracing, like a cold-water swim on … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex‘s first gig after quitting the royal family has been revealed – with Meghan voicing a Disney documentary on elephants. Her fee for the project is going entirely to the Elephants Without Borders charity – an organisation dedicated to conserving wildlife and helps protect the animals from poaching. Meghan agreed to do the … Read more
Stock markets fight back: FTSE 100 up 16.5% in 3 days but 3.3m lose their jobs in the US… So how long can rally last? By Hugo Duncan and Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 26 March 2020 Stock markets soared for a third day … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:12 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 26 March 2020 KILLING WITH CONFETTI by Peter Lovesey (Sphere £8.99, 336 pp ) KILLING WITH CONFETTI by Peter Lovesey (Sphere £8.99, 336 pp ) It is a tough life for Peter Diamond. As head of … Read more
BREAKING: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Canada and set up home in LA amid the coronavirus crisis and flew by private jet to California before Trump closed the border The couple are said to have flown by private jet from Canada to the U.S. Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a … Read more
YOUNG FICTION By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10 GMT, 26 March 2020 VIPER’S DAUGHTER by Michelle Paver (Zephyr £12.99, 256 pp) VIPER’S DAUGHTER by Michelle Paver (Zephyr £12.99, 256 pp) Children trapped at home now have at least one reason to celebrate — the long-awaited … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Annalena McAfee take to a desert island? Novelist Annalena McAfee would take Palgrave’s Golden Treasury on an island She is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul The novelist said that comics and joke books first gave her the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, … Read more