Far right demonstrators were determined to wreak havoc in London. They succeeded by attacking police with bottles and smoke bombs before violently clashing with Black Lives Matter supporters in Trafalgar Square and at Waterloo station.
Kelly Morellon (right) and her mother Sylvie have designed a face mask with a transparent window It’s now part of daily life for many of us – struggling to work out what someone in a supermarket or at work is saying when they’re wearing a face mask. But for people who are deaf…
Dr Arghavan Salles In a video posted on Twitter, Dr Arghavan Salles joked about having “a small head” for PPE. There is growing concern that standard personal protective equipment (PPE), which often has a unisex design, doesn’t always fit women properly.PPE is essential for protecting frontline workers exposed to Covid-19.The Department…
Most English Football League clubs shut their stadium and facilities early on to reduce costsThis bank holiday weekend was supposed to bring the FA Cup and Championship play-off finals – arguably the most renowned and richest games in club football.Instead there is a void.While those at the top of the football food chain may be…
The anti-lockdown protests that have garnered so much attention in the United States in recent weeks may seem like a uniquely American phenomenon. Wired’s Emma Grey Ellis called them an “American mess,” describing them as “a modern permutation of an identity crisis with roots very deep in America’s individualist history.” The protests have been compared…
Professional photographers in lockdown in the UK, Mali, Costa Rica, the Philippines and elsewhere, have taken shots of their children in lockdown. Haris Calkic / Unicef Unicef UK, a charity working for children in danger, has coordinated a photo-essay by their photographers, showing life in their households.Hundreds of millions of children have been…
Matt Hancock: “Getting through this is going to be a national effort” Every Briton over the age of 70 will be told “within the coming weeks” to stay at home for an extended period to protect themselves from coronavirus.When it happens, they will be asked to stay…
LONDON (Reuters) – A further 46 people in England have died after testing positive to coronavirus, health authorities said on Monday, taking the total number of deaths to 303. That is up from 37 deaths on Sunday. National Health Service England said the patients whose deaths were announced on Monday were aged between 47 and…
LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England cut its key interest rate to 0.25 percent on Wednesday and announced a raft of other measures to bolster Britain’s economy against disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Here is the central bank’s statement. Bank of England measures to respond to the economic shock from Covid-19 The Bank’s…
