Day: October 1, 2020
MP attended Parliament with coronavirus and caught train back to Scotland
October 1, 2020An MP has admitted travelling to Parliament after undertaking a coronavirus test – for which she later received a positive result. Margaret Ferrier, an SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, apologised for her actions in a statement today. She also apologised for travelling back to Scotland from London by train the day after receiving […]
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SNP's Margaret Ferrier apologises for travelling between Westminster and Scotland with coronavirus
October 1, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates A minister has apologised after she went to debate in Parliament after experiencing coronavirus symptoms. SNP‘s Margaret Ferrier has since tested positive for Covid-19 after she travelled from Scotland to London. Ms Ferrier delivered a four-minute speech to the […]
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Turkey, Poland and three Caribbean islands added to UK quarantine list
October 1, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Turkey, Poland and the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba have been removed from the Government’s list of travel corridors. Travellers arriving in the UK from those places after 4am on Saturday must self-isolate for 14 days, […]
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Rogue landlord who glued tenant's locks and cut off utilities banned from renting out properties
October 1, 2020A rogue landlord who illegally rented out an overcrowded bedsit before waging a campaign of harassment against the tenants when they complained has been banned from renting out properties again. Balazs Stalter rented out a property in Longmead Road, Tooting, to five sub-lets after turning the living room and dining room into bedsits. He had […]
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Black History Month: How the BLM protests have impacted this year's celebration
October 1, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Today marks the first day of Black History Month, an annual celebration of the history, achievements and contributions of black people in the UK. First proposed in 1915 by American historian Carter G. Woodson, half a century after the […]
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Police sergeant Matt Ratana died after being shot in chest at Croydon station, inquest hears
October 1, 2020Metropolitan Police Sergeant Matt Ratana died after being shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre, a preliminary post-mortem examination report has found. At the opening of the inquest into Sergeant Ratana’s death this afternoon, the Met’s Detective Superintendent Nick Blackburn told South London coroner’s court: “This has deeply shocked and saddened all of us […]
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TfL ‘needs another £5,700,000,000 bailout’ to survive the next 18 months
October 1, 2020London’s transport system faces a return to ‘the bad old days’ unless it gets a near £6 billion bailout to keep it going for the next 18 months, the capital’s mayor has warned. Sadiq Khan is calling for a £5.7 billion package of funding for Transport for London (TfL), in an attempt to keep the […]
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Cancer survivor says smear test change ‘will end in people going undiagnosed’
October 1, 2020A cancer survivor is fighting against a change to cervical smear tests which she believes could result in fewer people having the potentially deadly disease caught early. Katie Hirst, who lives in London, launched a petition after discovering a change to NHS smear tests was brought in last year which means they now only test […]
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Dad and son fight off wild dogs and tame donkey on 1,700 mile walk ‘just to see granny’
October 1, 2020An 11-year-old boy spent more than three months trekking 1,700 miles from Sicily to London just so he could give his granny a hug during lockdown. Romeo Cox and dad Phil, 46, fought off vicious wild dogs, tamed a feral donkey and slept under the stars during their epic adventure. The pair set off from […]
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