Ministers are prepared to act to stop illegal large family gatherings this Christmas, a Cabinet minister warned today. Environment Secretary George Eustice also said that even festive gatherings that adhere to the Rule of Six could be outlawed if they include people living in different lockdown tiers. His comments came as Boris Johnson was presented … Read more
Laura Anderson wows in thigh-high boots and sporty jacket for meetings in London after hitting back at trolls commenting on her ‘changing face’ By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline Published: 14:39 BST, 23 September 2020 | Updated: 14:59 BST, 23 September 2020 She’s had a tough few weeks, revealing she has split from her boyfriend as … Read more
In a world ravaged by Covid-19, virtual events, video chats and Zoom meetings have become the norm for workers. A US-based company called Spatial wants to make this a more natural process with lifelike holographic avatars. Users can enter into a variety of rooms and speak, gesture and collaborate in the same way as is … Read more
Households in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn will be banned from socialising together from midnight tonight after the Government today announced drastic new measures to tackle spiralling coronavirus outbreaks. Number 10 agreed the tougher restrictions with local council bosses and health chiefs, warning that evidence shows infection rates are still rising despite ‘dedicated efforts’ to contain the clusters. … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is blamed for early failings of Cobra meetings as government sources claim he didn’t ‘challenge’ his own department’s Covid-19 crisis response Whitehall’s coronavirus finger-pointing has thrust Matt Hancock into firing line The Health Secretary is accused of poorly chairing the initial Cobra meetings Plans have been sketched out for independent minister … Read more
Ashley Olsen goes business chic in a silk skirt and beige blouse after attending meetings in NYC By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com and Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 02:45 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 02:45 BST, 7 August 2020 She was recently nominated for two CFDA awards, alongside her twin sister Mary-Kate, for their … Read more
Matt Hancock announces further plans to downgrade SAGE by confirming the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre is taking over Britain’s coronavirus response – as he dismisses plans to reform Public Health England before winter The Health Secretary would not put a date on when the last time COBRA met MPs looked concerned that the emergency committee … Read more
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
Conference organisers have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns, but one answer is to hold events online or even better in virtual reality. VR Education specialises in this type of technology and for the AIM-listed business, this period of enforced homeworking might prove to be a company maker. A month ago, for example, it ran … Read more
Boris Johnson was ‘driving’ the government’s coronavirus response despite ‘skipping’ five Cobra meetings at the start of the outbreak, Gavin Williamson insisted tonight. The Education Secretary defended the PM’s handling amid a mounting backlash at the slow action in gearing up to the looming crisis. Mr Johnson has been accused of taking a backseat role … Read more