Boris Johnson was facing a Tory rebellion last night over his new national lockdown. Many of his own MPs were outraged by the revelation that the restrictions could last much longer than the planned four weeks – and potentially even run into spring. Some indicated they would oppose the measures that business chiefs fear will devastate … Read more
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are off limits for the English under the new lockdown rules which urge people not to travel within the United Kingdom. It comes after Wales banned visitors from England last month and Nicola Sturgeon today told Scots not to travel south unless for ‘essential purposes.’ Boris Johnson last night imposed … Read more
A total of 23,254 people have tested positive for COVID-19 across Britain, the highest Sunday rise since June 7, figures have revealed today. The figure is up 1,339 from Saturday’s tally of 21,915 cases. A further 162 have also died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the figures show. The data, published by the … Read more
Holidaymakers will be banned from travelling abroad again under strict new winter lockdown rules in England. All outbound international travel will be banned, except for a small number of circumstances, as part of the new rules revealed last night by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Internal travel within the UK from England, for any reason apart … Read more
New lockdown restrictions announced for England on Saturday October 30 are the latest measures brought in for the UK. Different rules are now in place in each of the four nations. This is the picture in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England On Saturday, October 30 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new measures … Read more
Disgraced Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay claimed more than £4,400 in expenses for a month after quitting Cabinet for bombarding boy, 16, with 270 texts The MSP quit Nicola Sturgeon’s Cabinet on February 6, the day of the budget It emerged he had bombarded the schoolboy with texts calling him ‘cute’ Figures now reveal he … Read more
Police in Scotland have been called to break up more than 3,000 illegal parties in just two months – with a third of them held after the lockdown ban on indoor gatherings was imposed. Hundreds of house parties have been shut down every week since police were granted powers to break up gatherings held in … Read more
Britain’s second wave of coronavirus lurched from being a handful of small outbreaks to penetrating the entire UK and forcing whole cities back into lockdown within just two months, according to a series of heatmaps that reveal just how quickly the outbreak has evolved. Covid infections hovered at 10 cases per 100,000 people across most … Read more
Scotland plans to put Lanarkshire into maximum-lockdown TIER FOUR restrictions with people ordered to stay home and weddings limited to five people By Henry Martin For Mailonline Published: 19:08 GMT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 20:16 GMT, 26 October 2020 North and South Lanarkshire could be placed into the highest level of lockdown, reports say. … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon was forced to make a bizarre promise to Scottish children that Santa would still deliver their Christmas presents – after her top medical advisor said hopes of a traditional festive gathering were a ‘fiction’. The First Minister joked that her national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch would be portrayed as the Grinch on … Read more