Amazing maps show how locked-down London is EMPTY of traffic – compared to last Good Friday

Amazing maps show how locked-down London is EMPTY of traffic – compared to last Good Friday before coronavirus struck TomTom showed traffic in the capital, Manchester and Birmingham was down on Thursday compared to 2019 This suggests most people are following the Government’s lockdown instruction not to visit tourist hotspots The images for the Thursday … Read more

Pope Francis is helped to his feet as he celebrates Good Friday mass in St Peter’s Basilica

Pope Francis was helped to his feet as he celebrated Good Friday mass in St Peter’s Basilica with no worshippers present as the Italian public obey strict lockdown rules triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.  The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State led the Good Friday Passion of the Lord with no … Read more

Christians celebrate Good Friday in the age of coronavirus

Christians were marking Good Friday in isolation today as churches lay empty, worshippers prayed from home and the Pope prepared for a scaled-back Easter because of the coronavirus pandemic.   Pilgrims have been barred from retracing Jesus’s steps in the Holy Land, with flights grounded and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed for the first … Read more

Megan Gale shares her family’s sweet Good Friday tradition

Megan Gale shares her family’s sweet Good Friday tradition – and it’s the perfect way to keep children occupied while self-isolating over the long weekend By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:45 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 05:45 BST, 10 April 2020 Megan Gale has shared her family’s sweet Good Friday tradition … Read more

Last chance saloon: Revellers head out for Friday beers for the final time

Friday night revellers were drinking in the last chance saloon tonight before Britain’s beer pumps shut off after Boris Johnson announced that pubs will be shut from tomorrow to help fight coronavirus.  There were mixed reactions after the Prime Minister made the ‘heartbreaking’ order to close Britain’s pubs. ‘We’re taking away the ancient, inalienable right … Read more

Planets set to put on a show for the earliest Spring Equinox in 124 years on Friday

Planets set to put on a show for the earliest Spring equinox in 124 years on Friday – with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and a crescent moon appearing very close together in the night sky March 20 is the spring equinox, when the day and night are equal in length It will be the earliest March … Read more

Coronavirus: Kyle and Jackie O return to KIIS FM studios on Friday

Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson will return to their radio studio tomorrow – after Christian Wilkins sparked a coronavirus scare By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:58 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 02:07 GMT, 19 March 2020 Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson will be broadcasting from KIIS FM’s headquarters in … Read more

Named: Second Briton killed by coronavirus was 88-year-old who collapsed on Friday

Named: Second Briton killed by coronavirus was 88-year-old who collapsed on Friday after meeting people returning from Italy skiing trip Darrell Blakely, from Middleton in Greater Manchester, died on March 13  He initially tested negative for the virus and was diagnosed with sepsis   Several days later tested positive after contact with returning tourist from Italy … Read more

Brooke Shields posts an adorable photo of herself as a little girl for flashback Friday the 13th

Brooke Shields posts a throwback photo of herself as a little girl with blonde hair on flashback Friday the 13th: ‘Clearly not superstitious!’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 17:54 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 17:54 GMT, 13 March 2020 Friday is Friday the 13th, and this actress marked the occasion with a ‘flashback … Read more

IT’S FRIDAY FILM: Misbehaviour is never sure whether to play it straight or for laughs

Misbehaviour (12A) Rating: Verdict: Knock-kneed sexism drama  The Hunt (15) Rating: Verdict: Faintly deplorable A few years ago I wrote a book about growing up in front of the telly in the Seventies, and devoted a chapter to my unmissable annual date with Miss World. Even relatively enlightened families, which I like to think ours … Read more