No ball games or washing lines… and 83 other rules: Prince Charles is accused of taking draconian measures to preserve the look of village on his Cornwall estate Anyone seeking to move to his Nansledan community has to abide by 85 rules Book also says residents can place bins in front gardens only on collection … Read more
No ball games or washing lines… and 83 other rules: Prince Charles is accused of taking draconian measures to preserve the look of village on his Cornwall estate Anyone seeking to move to his Nansledan community has to abide by 85 rules Book also says residents can place bins in front gardens only on collection … Read more
Voters and Tory MPs last night urged Boris Johnson to rescue Christmas by exempting children from his ‘rule of six’. A Daily Mail poll showed more than four in ten support a U-turn on the policy, letting grandparents see their families over the festive season. Tory backbenchers savaged the ‘grotesque’ restriction which, from Monday, bans groups … Read more
Voters and Tory MPs last night urged Boris Johnson to rescue Christmas by exempting children from his ‘rule of six’. A Daily Mail poll showed more than four in ten support a U-turn on the policy, letting grandparents see their families over the festive season. Tory backbenchers savaged the ‘grotesque’ restriction which, from Monday, bans groups … Read more
A British expat who stayed in China during the coronavirus pandemic has documented how ordinary people coped with the country’s draconian lockdown and high-tech surveillance. Yu Kung, a former London advertising executive, used his camera to record his neighbours dealing with unprecedented life changes after the killer infection erupted in the Far East. One of … Read more
Carl Heneghan, a professor of medicine at Oxford University, claims the UK’s coronavirus outbreak peaked a week before lockdown and that draconian measures were unnecessary The UK’s coronavirus outbreak peaked a week before lockdown, according to a leading expert who argues the draconian measures were unnecessary. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University, … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
As lockdown in Wuhan is finally lifted, a 32-year-old British expat who has been working in the city for several years sends this vivid despatch on the realities of freedom. At midnight on Tuesday, I was woken up by whoops and cheers of ‘Come on Wuhan’ as my neighbours in this city of 11 million … Read more
Police officers were forced to break up barbecues being held in different parts of Britain today as people flouted new draconian powers to disperse crowds of more than two to halt the spread of coronavirus. West Midlands Police officers had to step in to disperse a large group of people having a barbecue in the … Read more
Police officers will have to ignore some crime in order to tackle Britain’s coronavirus lockdown, Boris Johnson was warned today as officers warned that under-staffed forces will struggle to enforce draconian new movement rules. Police Federation of England and Wales chairman John Apter said officers would have to make touch decisions about law and order … Read more