The Metropolitan Police has made referrals for 24 fines over a lockdown-defying party attended by Shaun Bailey’s London mayoral campaign team at Conservative Party Headquarters (CCHQ). Fixed-penalty notices have been issued to attendees of the “jingle and mingle” event in December 2020.
The political decisions around the coronavirus lockdown, travel restrictions, and social distancing will be scrutinised by the Covid-19 inquiry. The Government’s work between January 2020 and February 2022, when final restrictions were lifted, will be put under the microscope as the inquiry
A EuroMillions jackpot winner said building his 6,000 sq ft dream house with an artificial lake filled with rehomed fish and an accompanying lodge helped him get through the Covid-19 lockdown. Gareth Bull, 52, won the EuroMillions jackpot of £40,627,241 in January
Up to six schools across Leeds and Bradford have been closed with pupils locked in classrooms after a “credible threat” email. The email is reported to have threatened violence against children and staff and is being treated as credible by police. Parents
A number of schools have been put on lockdown after a ‘credible threat’ was sent via email. As many as seven schools across Leeds have so far closed, with pupils locked in classrooms as part of a ‘soft lockdown’. The email is
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Businesses have been warned to prepare for “gangs of youths” who may carry out an alleged TikTok-inspired raid at a shopping centre. Broadway Shopping Centre in Bexleyheath, south-east London, has increased the number of security guards on Saturday amid speculation that social
A 21-year-old man has been rushed to hospital after a horror daylight stabbing outside a Wetherspoons in West London today. A man was arrested after emergency services rushed to the scene outside the Good Yarn Pub in High Street, Uxbridge, shortly after
The jail holding the man suspected of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer is placed on lockdown whenever he leaves his cell, it has emerged. Rex Heuermann is also said to have had only one visitor since he was sent to the
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has told a Covid-19 Inquiry that the lockdown could have been avoided in the UK and blamed it on a “narrowness of thinking”. The Treasury chief was giving evidence to the first stage of the inquiry, which is looking