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A dash for detached homes and the hunt for more space in lockdown helped send the average house price in the UK up £20,000 in 2020, official figures revealed. House prices increased by 8.5 per cent in 2020, reaching a record high of £252,000, aided by lockdown buyers looking for bigger homes and the stamp … Read more
A dash for detached homes and the hunt for more space in lockdown helped send the average house price in the UK up £20,000 in 2020, official figures revealed House prices increased by 8.5 per cent in 2020, reaching a record high of £252,000, aided by lockdown buyers looking for bigger homes and the stamp … Read more
More than half of local authorities in England and Wales were hit harder by the pandemic in January than at the peak of the first wave, official figures reveal. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows 54 per cent – 182 out of 336 – registered more deaths from Covid in the first four weeks … Read more
Statistics experts today raised questions over whether the UK has really been the worst hit major economy during coronavirus. Analysis from the government’s watchdog pointed out that many other countries in the G7 do not compile GDP figures in the same way. After Rishi Sunak complained that the data do not show the true … Read more
England STILL had more than a million people infected with coronavirus last week, ONS study claims as symptom-tracking app says cases are still falling but ‘the decrease is running out of steam’ By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 12:25 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 12:38 GMT, 29 January 2021 Advertisement More … Read more
People infected with Kent coronavirus variant are MORE likely to get symptoms than those who catch older strains, ONS report reveals – but they are less likely to lose smell and taste People infected with the Kent coronavirus variant are more likely to get symptoms than those with older strain Figures showed that 19 per … Read more
Binmen, male lorry drivers and carers are among the groups most at risk of contracting coronavirus, official figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed. The report published today found that men in ‘elementary occupations’, including binmen, postmen, cleaners and security staff, had the highest number of deaths from the virus last year, with 699 … Read more
School staff are NOT more likely to die of Covid-19 than the general population, ONS survey reveals after 139 were killed by the disease in all of 2020 – and it found working-age men are nearly TWICE as likely to die as women Office of National Statistics (ONS) says 139 teachers aged between 20 and … Read more
Covid was England’s biggest killer in 2020 and accounted for one in eight deaths, official data reveals as interactive map shows how many virus victims there have been in YOUR area By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 11:42 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 11:43 GMT, 18 January 2021 Advertisement Coronavirus was … Read more
UK records first fall in non-UK born and non-British populations in at least a decade following the impact of Brexit and the coronavirus crisis Office for National Statistics published data on UK population by country of birth It showed that the non-UK-born and non-British population have both decreased Fall has been largely attributed to a … Read more