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Senior Tory MPs have urged Boris Johnson to reduce the UK’s two metre social distancing rule as they warned failure to do so could risk a wave of redundancies in the hospitality sector. There is a growing campaign for the existing restriction to be eased to one and a half metres. This would give pubs, … Read more
More than three-quarters of pubs could reopen if social distancing rules were relaxed to one metre – amid fears that 40 per could shut down if they remain closed until September. But if the two-metre guidance remains, just one-third could reopen their doors and many would face further financial misery and ruin, warned Emma McClarkin, … Read more
Plans to ease the two-metre social distancing rule will continue to be reviewed, public health leaders have said, raising hopes that more pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen. Public Health England’s medical director Professor Yvonne Doyle told MPs that the UK had taken a ‘cautionary’ approach to introducing the rule when other countries … Read more
Spending a few seconds one metre from a colleague is equivalent to an hour two metres away, and talking loudly makes it worse, it’s been warned. Government scientific advisors are considering telling workers exactly how strong the risk of catching the coronavirus is depending on how close they stand next to someone. The fresh advice would … Read more
Chris Hopkins made an incredible discovery as he dug up a 60s motorbike while gardening It should have been a run-of-the-mill task to keep himself busy during lockdown. But a father’s routine gardening job turned into a shock discovery – as he found a Puch motorbike from the 1960s buried beneath his lawn. Chris Hopkins, … Read more