Boris Johnson chairs Cobra as Coronavirus crisis steps up

Government could order mass closures of PUBS, football matches and church halls amid warnings coronavirus ‘is going to spread across UK in a significant way’ as Boris Johnson chairs emergency Cobra meeting Boris Johnson chairing meeting of Cobra emergency committee on coronavirus Ministers are preparing frantic bid to slow down the spread of the killer … Read more

Squirrel squares up to deadly Cape cobra and dodges its lightning-fast strikes

Squirrel squares up to deadly Cape cobra and dodges its lightning-fast strikes in astonishing encounter Cape ground squirrel leaps at cobra and distracts it with its tail, video shows Terrifying encounter was filmed in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa Safari guide Dave Pusey, 41, said it was the first time he had seen a fight … Read more

Boris Johnson will hold Cobra meeting today to finalise UK’s coronavirus ‘battle plan’

Boris Johnson will take charge of the Government response to the coronavirus outbreak today after being stung by claims he was acting like a ‘part-time Prime Minister’. He will lead a meeting of the Government’s emergency committee Cobra this morning for the first time as he seeks to reassure the country he has got a … Read more

Boris Johnson to chair Cobra emergency meeting on Coronavirus

Boris Johnson in London yesterday, will chair a Cobra meeting on Coronavirus for the first time Boris Johnson is taking personal charge of the response to Coronavirus amid mounting fears that it will rampage through Europe.  The PM will chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee on the crisis for the first time – … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: COBRA is a narrative about an urgent situation told with no urgency whatsoever 

COBRA Friday, Sky One Rating: (although also…  Rating: as there is a sort of joy in watching a series get it quite so wrong)  Let us talk our way though the first episode of COBRA, Sky’s new political drama about Britain during a time of national emergency, although I am not sure you would know … Read more