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Sep 19, 2020 23:22
The British government is making it a legal requirement in England for those who have tested positive for Covid-19 or who have been traced to an outbreak to self-isolate, and violators will be fined as much as 10,000 pounds.
- Lockdown-defying Professor Neil Ferguson says UK needs… a SECOND LOCKDOWN
Prof. Neil Ferguson, the former UK government adviser who was caught defying his own draconian lockdown in May, has warned that nationwide restrictions will be needed again “sooner rather than later.”Sep 19, 2020 18:06 - Police engage in SHOVING MATCH with protesters at major rally against coronavirus measures in London (VIDEO)Tensions ran high at a large rally against coronavirus measures in London, as protesters pressured the police to choose if they were with the people or with the authorities responsible for the restrictions.Sep 19, 2020 14:16
- Colston statue topplers let off with caution and given chance to explain actions to history commissionFive men suspected of criminal damage over the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol have been let off with cautions by the police on the condition that they explain their actions to a history commission.Sep 19, 2020 10:54
- PM Johnson warns 2nd wave of coronavirus is coming to UK, says new restrictions may be neededA second wave of Covid-19 is coming to the UK and the government may be forced to impose new restrictions to stem the spread of the virus, PM Boris Johnson has said, adding that he does not want a new national lockdown.Sep 18, 2020 18:41
- UK to crack down on Covid-19 rule breakers, impose fines up to 10,000 pounds on those who defy self-isolation ordersThe British government is making it a legal requirement in England for those who have tested positive for Covid-19 or who have been traced to an outbreak to self-isolate, and violators will be fined as much as 10,000 pounds.Sep 19, 2020 23:22
- Lockdown-defying Professor Neil Ferguson says UK needs… a SECOND LOCKDOWNProf. Neil Ferguson, the former UK government adviser who was caught defying his own draconian lockdown in May, has warned that nationwide restrictions will be needed again “sooner rather than later.”Sep 19, 2020 18:06
- Police engage in SHOVING MATCH with protesters at major rally against coronavirus measures in London (VIDEO)Tensions ran high at a large rally against coronavirus measures in London, as protesters pressured the police to choose if they were with the people or with the authorities responsible for the restrictions.Sep 19, 2020 14:16
- Colston statue topplers let off with caution and given chance to explain actions to history commissionFive men suspected of criminal damage over the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol have been let off with cautions by the police on the condition that they explain their actions to a history commission.Sep 19, 2020 10:54
- Shocked cleaner finds loaded gun that was accidentally left on Heathrow jet by bodyguard for UK Foreign Secretary RaabPolice scrambled to the scene after a shocked cleaner found a loaded gun on a plane at Heathrow Airport. Astonishingly it emerged that the pistol had been accidentally left behind by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s bodyguard.Sep 19, 2020 08:35
- ‘Utter shambles’: UK court told escaped prisoner tried to turn himself in SEVEN TIMES but police refusedA British inmate who fled an open prison subsequently tried to hand himself in over the course of a month, but the Metropolitan Police refused to arrest him on seven occasions, his lawyer said.Sep 18, 2020 21:13
- PM Johnson warns 2nd wave of coronavirus is coming to UK, says new restrictions may be neededA second wave of Covid-19 is coming to the UK and the government may be forced to impose new restrictions to stem the spread of the virus, PM Boris Johnson has said, adding that he does not want a new national lockdown.Sep 18, 2020 18:41
- ‘You couldn’t write it’: Migrant boat lands on British NUDIST BEACH, locals offer newcomers drinksA boat full of migrants were in for a surprise when their dinghy landed at a nudist beach on the coast of Sussex in the south of England. The newcomers were helped ashore by stark naked sunbathers who offered them hot drinks.Sep 18, 2020 17:15
- Queen strips Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of CBE after rape convictionHollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is serving 23 years in prison in the US for rape and sexual assault, has been stripped of his honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the ruling of the Queen.Sep 18, 2020 13:56
- Sadiq Khan nixes fireworks & says ‘nothing happening’ in Covid-panicked London on New Year’s EveCentral London will be quiet on New Year’s Eve, Mayor Sadiq Khan has decreed, claiming fireworks and other merrymaking would be too dangerous to public health amid the coronavirus pandemic.Sep 18, 2020 11:56
- NHS worker brutally beaten in face mask confrontation in DISTURBING VIDEO from London policeA disturbing video was released by Scotland Yard, showing an unruly passenger attacking and leaving unconscious an NHS test-and-trace worker after an argument over wearing the mandatory face mask erupted on a bus in north London.Sep 18, 2020 10:33
- UK Health Secretary refuses to rule out 2nd national lockdown, but it would be ‘last line of defense’UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says another national lockdown isn’t something “that we ever take off the table,” but he did not clarified whether or not it would be imposed next month.Sep 18, 2020 09:07
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