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Shutdown of churches and ban on weddings during Covid crisis has cost CofE ‘£150MILLION’ and could trigger a cull of parishes Sources suggest Church of England lost £150m in donations during Covid crisis Money-saving reforms could include cutting number of bishops to less than ten Parish boundaries could be redrawn to reduce the number from … Read more
After a crisp winter walk in the glorious dales or high peaks of Derbyshire, nothing could be more natural than stopping for a restorative drink and hot lunch by the fire of a local pub. Yet incredibly, the Government has now declared this simple pleasure to be illegal. Because Derby and some other parts of … Read more
New Year lockdown fear: Boris Johnson threatens national shutdown in January if people don’t obey new Covid tier system PM said Covid threat had ‘not gone away’ despite misery of a second lockdown He said vaccine progress gave ‘hope’ but UK faced ‘hard winter’ of restrictions Decision to put 99% of England in top two … Read more
Most draconian coronavirus curbs must stay in place when England comes out of its national shutdown next month or it will result in another Covid-19 ‘rebound’, ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson has warned. The Imperial College London scientist, who resigned from SAGE in May after having secret trysts with his married lover while lecturing Britain on … Read more
Deja vu, Groundhog Day – call it what you like, we are in national lockdown again. And while that well-known phrase ‘past performance is no indicator of future results’ still applies, are there any investment lessons we can learn from the first lockdown? Back in March, we highlighted possible stock market winners in the event … Read more
Olivia Wilde to her Instagram Stories on Thursday afternoon to give her 3.5 million Instagram followers an update on the upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. The movie set was shut down on Wednesday after a crew member tested positive for the coronavirus. Olivia, 36, clarified in her video that shooting would be halted for two … Read more
What lockdown? Tubes, trains and roads are rammed on first day of four-week national shutdown – as London is clogged with 255 miles of rush-hour traffic jams Rush-hour traffic remained high across England today as the new national coronavirus lockdown began Congestion in London was at 38% between 7am and 8am today amid 536 jams … Read more
Pubs ran dry across England on Wednesday evening after revellers gathered for one last drink before a second national lockdown came into force at midnight. Large groups of drinkers packed into bars and pubs across the country before 10pm to enjoy a drink ahead of the new restrictions being introduced. They took advantage of cheap drinks, with pints … Read more
Lockdown locks-down! Boris Johnson finds time to have a quick trim… before plunging Britain into second shutdown that will last until at least December 2 England is set to go into a second coronavirus lockdown from Thursday morning Hairdressers and beauty salons are among the businesses being forced to close Boris Johnson was spotted sporting … Read more
Furious anti-lockdown Tory MPs last night accused Boris Johnson of allowing himself to be bounced into an England-wide shutdown after No10 binned its three-tier Covid-19 alert system. Conservatives were outraged that plans to plunge the country into a second shutdown were leaked to the Saturday papers, including the Mail, before the Prime Minister’s announcement in … Read more