Travel plans are left in tatters amid new Christmas Covid curbs

Travel plans have been left in tatters amid new Christmas Covid curbs as airlines, rail firms and hotels brace for deluge of refund requests.  Boris Johnson effectively cancelled Christmas for almost 18 million people in London, south-eastern and eastern England as the region was put into a new two-week lockdown from Sunday. Under the new … Read more

NSW to be battered by thunderstorms within hours as millions to get a wet covid Christmas 

Northern New South Wales is set to be battered by severe thunderstorms and hail on Sunday night as Sydneysiders prepare for a miserable and wet covid Christmas.  The Bureau of Meteorology issued an emergency alert at 5.16pm on Sunday warning of damaging winds and large hailstones for the flood-soaked Northern Rivers region around Lismore, Tenterfield … Read more

NSW to be battered by thunderstorms within hours as millions to get a wet covid Christmas 

Northern New South Wales is set to be battered by severe thunderstorms and hail on Sunday night as Sydneysiders prepare for a miserable and wet covid Christmas.  The Bureau of Meteorology issued an emergency alert at 5.16pm on Sunday warning of damaging winds and large hailstones for the flood-soaked Northern Rivers region around Lismore, Tenterfield … Read more

Covid death of the big white wedding dress? How pandemic weddings are changing bridal trends

With the coronavirus pandemic limiting weddings across the country to as few as 15 guests, many couples tying the knot in 2020 have been forced to rethink – or completely reorganise – their big day.  Smaller wedding ceremonies have meant a greater number of brides ditching the traditional big white dress in favour of a … Read more

Covid death of the big white wedding dress? How pandemic weddings are changing bridal trends

With the coronavirus pandemic limiting weddings across the country to as few as 15 guests, many couples tying the knot in 2020 have been forced to rethink – or completely reorganise – their big day.  Smaller wedding ceremonies have meant a greater number of brides ditching the traditional big white dress in favour of a … Read more

SIR MICHAEL MORPURGO: Why I know we all WILL get through this Covid ordeal 

I wonder if the songs we know and love to sing together were ever more needed than they are now. I mean especially those songs that bind us together at this time of year, Christmas carols. Carols and songs, like people, cross oceans and continents and borders and language barriers. They find new life and … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Covid boosts Gear4Music

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Lockdown is music to ears of investors who bought into instrument retailer Gear4Music By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 22:26 GMT, 19 December 2020 Striking a chord: Guitar sales have soared as people stay at home While bookworms curl up with the … Read more

SIR MICHAEL MORPURGO: Why I know we all WILL get through this Covid ordeal 

I wonder if the songs we know and love to sing together were ever more needed than they are now. I mean especially those songs that bind us together at this time of year, Christmas carols. Carols and songs, like people, cross oceans and continents and borders and language barriers. They find new life and … Read more

New Covid strain caused a 200% spike in infections in a week

The draconian new restrictions imposed last night were drawn up after the number of people carrying the coronavirus more than trebled in a week. The rapid rise in areas which were last night plunged into new tier 4 measures is said to be down to a new virus strain, which was first announced on Monday. … Read more