Day: October 14, 2020
Govt to talk to Manchester and London MPs amid reports of tougher coronavirus tiers
October 14, 2020MPs in Greater Manchester and London have been invited to briefings with a government minister this morning – amid reports that both areas could be placed into a higher coronavirus tier. Health minister Helen Whateley is going to hold a call with London MPs at 9.30am, followed by Greater Manchester MPs at 10.45am. Local leaders […]
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Historic England takes London ‘birthplace of feminism’ off at-risk list
October 14, 2020A once damp and leaky meeting house known as the “birthplace of feminism” is one of 181 historic sites facing a brighter future after being taken off England’s 2020 Heritage at Risk Register. The building in Newington Green, London, has been a remarkable hotbed of dissent for more than 300 years and counted Mary Wollstonecraft, […]
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Virginia Cavalcanti obituary
October 14, 2020Virginia Cavalcanti arrived in London in the early 1970s, having left her native Brazil because of the political situation My friend Virginia Cavalcanti, who has died aged 71 after suffering cardiac arrest, arrived in London in 1970 as an exile from the military dictatorship in Brazil and stayed until 1974, when the political situation there […]
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Mum accused of murdering baby ‘told doctors she had no idea what happened’
October 14, 2020A city worker accused of shaking her newborn daughter to death told doctors she had ‘no idea’ what had made her so unwell, a court heard. Clare Sanders, 44, and her lover Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, are alleged to have shaken four-week-old Eva on three separate occasions before she died in September 2017. The Old Bailey […]
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Chris Brown spotted casually ‘spray-painting a wall’ in Shoreditch
October 14, 2020To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Chris Brown has been having a blast on his trip to London and was most recently spotted casually spray-painting a wall in Shoreditch. The No Guidance singer was recently seen at Mayfair restaurant Novikov, sending fans into […]
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UK coronavirus LIVE: 'Circuit-breaker' lockdown pressure mounts on Boris Johnson as new Covid Tier restrictions begin
October 14, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Boris Johnson is facing mounting pressure to impose a half-term “circuit-breaker”, with scientific advisers stressing that a two-week lockdown could save thousands of lives by the end of the year. Sage members have reportedly calculated that more than 7,000 […]
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Romford shooting: Man in 30s shot in leg in early morning gun attack in east London
October 14, 2020A man in his 30s has been shot during an early morning gun attack in east London. Police remain at the scene of the incident, which took place on White Hart Lane, Romford, just after 7.30am on Wednesday. The man was shot in the leg and has been taken to hospital. No arrests have yet […]
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Face masks and social distancing could be in place until next summer, Oxford vaccine professor warns
October 14, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Face masks and social distancing measures could be in place until next summer, the head of Oxford‘s coronavirus vaccine trial has said. Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said the vaccine would likely not be available […]
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Kingswinford crash: Two teenage girls and young man killed after car hits tree near Dudley
October 14, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Two teenage girls and a man in his 20s have been killed after the car they were in hit a tree. Police said the victims were among five people in a yellow Skoda Fabia, which crashed in Bromley Lane […]
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UK treated to brilliant early-morning glimpse of Venus next to the Moon
October 14, 2020The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates Britons have united in wonder at the universe, as they woke up to stunning views of a planet millions of miles away and a satellite slightly closer to home. Early-risers took to Twitter to share images of a brightly […]
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