SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Fury at Kate Middleton’s tennis club over council’s £130 road fines 

The Hurlingham Club is patronised by the Duchess of Cambridge and her family, but for how much longer? A London council’s aggressive tactic to prevent ‘outsiders’ using its cut-through roads could result in Kate Middleton and her staff being fined £130 each time she visits her favourite tennis club. Members of the prestigious Hurlingham Club … Read more

More than three in five fines handed out to Covid rule breakers by police have gone UNPAID

More than three in five coronavirus fines have gone unpaid in some parts of England, figures suggest. A freedom of information request revealed that nine forces saw 60% or more of the penalties go unpaid within 28 days between March 27 and September 21.  The total number of fines issued in England and Wales within … Read more

Transport for London hands out nearly 500 fines to ‘selfish’ passengers not wearing face masks

Almost 500 people have been fined in London for not wearing face coverings on public transport. Passengers in Lambeth – which includes Waterloo Station – were the most common rulebreakers as 127 were caught between July and September. Westminster was a distant second place with 83 Fixed Penalty Notices in the same time frame, while Croydon had 61. … Read more

Transport for London hands out nearly 500 fines to ‘selfish’ passengers not wearing face masks

Almost 500 people have been fined in London for not wearing face coverings on public transport. Passengers in Lambeth – which includes Waterloo Station – were the most common rulebreakers as 127 were caught between July and September. Westminster was a distant second place with 83 Fixed Penalty Notices in the same time frame, while Croydon had 61. … Read more

Has Boris cancelled Halloween? No10 issues warning over trick-or-treat including FINES for parents

Boris Johnson appeared to pour a large cauldron of humbug on Hallowe’en fun today as Downing Street warned against trick-or-treating.  No10 warned that families under local lockdowns in England – some 12 million people in total – should not mix, when asked whether traditional ghoulish events should take place. And it warned that elsewhere the … Read more

Has Boris cancelled Halloween? No10 issues warning over trick-or-treat including FINES for parents

Has Boris cancelled Halloween? No10 warns thousands of families in lockdown areas not to mix and suggests parents letting children trick-or-treat in large groups elsewhere face FINES – as London braces for new shutdown No10 warned that families under local lockdowns in England should not mix And those not in lockdown areas must obey Rule … Read more

UK legal first as court fines health trust over patient death ‘secrecy’

UK legal first as court fines health trust over patient death ‘secrecy’: Staff did not act ‘with candour or openness’ towards 91-year-old woman’s family, hearing is told Elsie Woodfield, 91, died at Derriford Hospital after going in for an endoscopy Suffered perforated oesophagus and later collapsed and died on hospital ward University Hospitals Plymouth Trust … Read more

UK legal first as court fines health trust over patient death ‘secrecy’

UK legal first as court fines health trust over patient death ‘secrecy’: Staff did not act ‘with candour or openness’ towards 91-year-old woman’s family, hearing is told Elsie Woodfield, 91, died at Derriford Hospital after going in for an endoscopy Suffered perforated oesophagus and later collapsed and died on hospital ward University Hospitals Plymouth Trust … Read more

US military employee, 26, facing huge fines in Germany after she sparked a COVID cluster in the Alps

American military employee, 26, is facing huge fines in Germany after she sparked a COVID cluster in the Alps when she went on a pub crawl while infected Unnamed woman returned from Greece vacation and reported symptoms  She took a COVID-19 test on September 7 and was told to quarantine  Instead, officials in Garmisch-Partenkirchen say … Read more