Royal Mail Scraps Saturday Letter Deliveries

Royal Mail has scrapped Saturday letter deliveries until further notice due to coronavirus and from this weekend onwards, the group will provisionally no longer deliver letters on a Saturday. Deliveries already don’t happen on a Sunday, so more people will face waiting into the following week for their letters to arrive. Nevertheless, Royal Mail maintainedContinue reading “Royal Mail Scraps Saturday Letter Deliveries”

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Carrie Symonds Gives Birth To A Baby Boy

Boris Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds has today given birth to a healthy baby boy with compliments flooding in from across the political divide, which happened earlier than was widely expected in Westminster. The baby arrived only days after Boris Johnson returned to work following an intensive care battle with coronavirus and it’s understood that theContinue reading “Carrie Symonds Gives Birth To A Baby Boy”

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UK Lockdown: Government Promises More Detail

The government has promised more detail in the coming days around its strategy for when and how to facilitate the UK’s coronavirus lockdown. Ministers are supposed to set out more information by the end of the week after Boris Johnson faced requests to name a strategy and in his first statement since returning to work,Continue reading “UK Lockdown: Government Promises More Detail”

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Boris Johnson Returns To No 10

It was a subdued, thinner and washed out Boris Johnson who stepped out from behind the world’s most prominent front door – the Prime Minister is back following his very real skirmish with death, and his priority was to give a hurriedly, orchestrated televised speech as a real display he had recovered and was veryContinue reading “Boris Johnson Returns To No 10”

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This Is Our Future!

These are all faces of frontline workers who have selflessly laid down their lives in the fight against COVID 19, as the death toll amongst NHS staff and private care workers rise, it brings home the horrifying hazards these warriors face every day. And that’s why the Sunday Mirror is starting a campaign for aContinue reading “This Is Our Future!”

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CDC Sent Useless Test Kits To States, Tainted With Coronavirus

As the novel coronavirus took root across America, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention sent states in the US tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus. The contamination made the tests cryptic, and because testing is essential for containment efforts, it lost the country precious time toContinue reading “CDC Sent Useless Test Kits To States, Tainted With Coronavirus”

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Officials Draw Up Three-Stage Traffic Light System To Lift UK Lockdown

Government officials have reportedly drawn up a three-stage traffic light system to end the UK’s national coronavirus lockdown and the system could see some non-essential businesses re-open in early to mid-May. The first phase ‘green’ would reportedly include small, non-essential shops, hairdressers and nurseries, although travel would still be discouraged. The ‘amber’ phase would seeContinue reading “Officials Draw Up Three-Stage Traffic Light System To Lift UK Lockdown”

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Now Is Not The Time To Discuss Pay Rise For Nurses

Matt Hancock stated that it’s not the time to discuss a pay rise for nurses, although he said he was sympathetic to the argument and the Health Secretary did pay tribute to the work being done by those in the health service but wouldn’t be moved on whether they warranted more money. The starting salaryContinue reading “Now Is Not The Time To Discuss Pay Rise For Nurses”

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There’s No Magic Wand

Britain’s health minister said that he would like to wave a magic want to get huge quantities of personal protective equipment for health workers fighting the novel coronavirus outbreak but that there was a global deficit. Matt Hancock defended plans for NHS staff to reuse personal protective equipment (PPE) because he doesn’t have a magicContinue reading “There’s No Magic Wand”

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The UK Will Refuse To Delay Brexit Deadline

The UK will refuse to delay the Brexit deadline in any way despite the coronavirus pandemic. Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson said that the UK will not ask to prolong the transition period beyond December 31 and even if EU chiefs ask for an expansion the UK will decline. But angry pro-EU MPs branded the decisionContinue reading “The UK Will Refuse To Delay Brexit Deadline”

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