Panic-buying shoppers spent £60million stockpiling products in the first week of March including pasta, shower gel, tissues and £17million extra on toilet roll alone Items such as children’s medicine and bath and shower products were on the up Figures could have been higher if supermarkets hadn’t run out of some items Hoarders have been stock … Read more
Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant who called herself ‘The Buchenwald Princess’ and her Nazi former partner are found GUILTY of being members of banned far right terror group National Action Alice Cutter and Mark Jones have been convicted of being members of proscribed far-Right terror group National Action Vegan neo-Nazi Cutter exchanged hundreds of messages … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Two giant cruise ships on standby to act as floating hospitals at Tilbury Docks as UK cruise company offers them to the government to help cope with coronavirus crisis British owners of Spirit of Discovery and Saga Sapphire are understood to have handed ships to government No decision has yet been taken to use … Read more
Church of England weddings during the coronavirus outbreak should be limited to a maximum of five people, including the bride and groom, new guidance says. And apart from the couple themselves, everyone else should observe a social distance as far as possible, the guidance says. The Church said important life events can go ahead but … Read more
The coronavirus is killing one person every 10 minutes in Iran as the death toll in the Middle East’s worst-affected country rocketed to 1,284. Health ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur tweeted that 50 people are getting infected with the virus every hour. Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said the total number of infections had reached 18,407 … Read more
Elderly peers told to work from home by Lord Speaker Lord Fowler as he says it is not their ‘duty’ to attend Parliament during coronavirus crisis Lord Fowler, the Lord Speaker, today announced he will now work from home The 82-year-old told his fellow peers it was not their ‘duty’ to attend parliament He urged … Read more
Bank of England slashes interest rates to just 0.1% to help boost UK economy as ministers unveil emergency laws to tackle the spread of coronavirus Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee had a special meeting today Committee decided to cut interest rates from 0.25 per cent to just 0.1 per cent It is second interest … Read more
Boyfriend, 29, is jailed for 10 months for road crash that killed his partner on her 26th birthday when she crashed into tree as pair sped to pick up her six-year-old daughter Jordan Moore, 29, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 10 months imprisonment, with a further 10 months to be served on … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
99 per cent of coronavirus deaths in Italy are patients with existing medical problems, a study by the country’s health service has found. Research into 355 deaths found that only three of the victims, 0.8 per cent, had been clear of illnesses before they were infected. Nearly half of them – 48.5 per cent – … Read more
Students will be awarded GCSE and A-level grades based on combination of predicted grades, mock exams, coursework and assessment – with exam sessions in autumn, a school leader claimed today. Leora Cruddas, chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts, which represents academies, unveiled the plans in a leaked email to teachers last night after … Read more
London has three times more cases of the killer coronavirus than any other region in the UK, according to official statistics. More than 900 cases have already been confirmed in the capital, with the boroughs of Southwark, Westminster and Lambeth the worst affected. In comparison, fewer than 300 people have been struck down in the … Read more
Coffins of coronavirus victims were whisked away on a fleet of army trucks last night after a cemetery in northern Italy was overwhelmed by the death toll. The column of army trucks brought the dead out of Bergamo on Wednesday night in what Italians have called ‘one of the saddest photos in the history of … Read more