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Households in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn will be banned from socialising together from midnight on Saturday as the Government announces new measures to stop the localised spread of coronavirus. The Government said it had agreed the tougher restrictions with local leaders, with residents now being told not to meet with anyone from outside their own … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is blamed for early failings of Cobra meetings as government sources claim he didn’t ‘challenge’ his own department’s Covid-19 crisis response Whitehall’s coronavirus finger-pointing has thrust Matt Hancock into firing line The Health Secretary is accused of poorly chairing the initial Cobra meetings Plans have been sketched out for independent minister … Read more
Ashley Olsen goes business chic in a silk skirt and beige blouse after attending meetings in NYC By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com and Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 02:45 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 02:59 BST, 7 August 2020 She was recently nominated for two CFDA awards, alongside her twin sister Mary-Kate, for their … Read more
Matt Hancock announces further plans to downgrade SAGE by confirming the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is taking over Britain’s coronavirus response – as he dismisses plans to reform Public Health England before winter The Health Secretary would not put a date on when the last time COBRA met MPs looked concerned that the emergency committee … Read more
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
Dundee Labour councillor urges colleagues to stop using phrase ‘nitty gritty’ in meetings over claims it was used as term for slaves in 18th century Councillor Georgia Cruickshank urged peers to avoid ‘slave traders’ language’ The expression ‘nitty gritty’ is thought to have originated from the 18th century Dundee’s historic links to the slave trade have … Read more
A farmer who started hiring out her goats for Zoom meeting calls as a joke to try and cheer people up amid the coronavirus pandemic has revealed how vicars book ‘Mary’ out for virtual church every Sunday. Speaking to presenters Ruth and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning, Dot, from Lancashire, explained how people from across … Read more
Embattled Matt Hancock failed to hold a single face-to-face meeting with care home bosses in the weeks leading up to the lockdown. Just two days ago, the Health Secretary insisted the Government sought to put a ‘protective ring’ around the sector as soon as the extent of the coronavirus threat became apparent. But The Mail … Read more
The new trend for pairing smart tops with comfortable jogging bottoms is proving lucrative for retailer Boohoo. The online fashion company has seen a rise in sales of smart tops as people working from home update their wardrobes and seek to look presentable on video conference calls like Zoom. Sales have also risen in hoodies and … Read more
Conference organisers have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns, but one answer is to hold events online or even better in virtual reality. VR Education specialises in this type of technology and for the AIM-listed business, this period of enforced homeworking might prove to be a company maker. A month ago, for example, it ran … Read more