Victoria reports 33 more coronavirus cases overnight 

Victoria will test 100,000 residents in Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots over the next ten days in a desperate attempt to control a second spike in infections.   Premier Daniel Andrews announced 33 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and declared there would be ‘a suburban testing blitz’ for the outbreak in suburban Melbourne over the coming days. Of Victoria’s … Read more

Victoria reports 33 more coronavirus cases overnight 

Victoria will test 100,000 residents in Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots over the next ten days in a desperate attempt to control a second spike in infections.   Premier Daniel Andrews announced 33 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and declared there would be ‘a suburban testing blitz’ for the outbreak in suburban Melbourne over the coming days. Of Victoria’s … Read more

Two-metre rule HALVED to let people meet indoors and stay OVERNIGHT from July 4

Boris Johnson today dramatically unwound the coronavirus lockdown, declaring that pubs, haircuts and weddings can return and giving family and friends the green light to meet up indoors for the first time in months. Throwing the dice to save the stricken economy, the PM told the Commons that England is coming out of ‘hibernation’ with … Read more

Two-metre rule HALVED to let people meet indoors and stay OVERNIGHT from July 4

Boris Johnson today dramatically unwound the coronavirus lockdown, declaring that pubs, haircuts and weddings can return and giving family and friends the green light to meet up indoors for the first time in months. Throwing the dice to save the stricken economy, the PM told the Commons that England is coming out of ‘hibernation’ with … Read more

Two men sleep in tents at Baden Powell statue after Bournemouth council vowed to guard it overnight

Two men have camped out next to the statue of Scout movement founder Robert Baden-Powell in a bid to protect it from protesters. Using tents, as so many who have been part of the organisation have done over the decades, the two men camped out near to the statue in Poole Quay last night. Dan … Read more

Mother-of-five tells how HALF of her £195,000 dream home plunged over a cliff edge overnight

A mother-of-five has today told how she ‘lost everything’ after a cliff collapsed and sent her dream home plunging over the edge.  Emma Tullett, 42, only bought her £195,000, two-bedroom bungalow – which had a swimming pool – in August 2018. But the property in Eastchurch, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, today plunged off the cliff, … Read more

Mother-of-five tells how HALF of her £195,000 dream home plunged over a cliff edge overnight

A mother-of-five told how she ‘lost everything’ after a cliff collapsed sending her dream home plunging over the edge.  Emma Tullett, 42, only bought her £195,000, two-bedroom bungalow – which had a swimming pool – in August 2018. But the property in Eastchurch, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, today plunged off the cliff, along with her … Read more

First hearse arrives at Spain’s makeshift ice-rink morgue as death toll soars overnight

The first hearse arrived today at Madrid’s ice rink, hastily transformed into a makeshift mortuary as Spanish authorities scrambled to deal with a rising death toll from Covid-19. Spain is Europe’s second-worst hit country after Italy, with 2,696 deaths and nearly 40,000 confirmed cases after 6,600 cases and more than 500 deaths were reported overnight, … Read more

Overnight spike in coronavirus cases in Australia takes national total to 1,630

Scott Morrison has issued a grim warning that further hardships are likely on the way as a result of the coronavirus pandemic as the number of cases soared overnight.  Australia saw a significant spike in the number of coronavirus cases on Monday morning with the amount of people infected jumping from 1,355 to 1,630 – with … Read more

Overnight spike in coronavirus cases in Australia takes national total to 1,630

Scott Morrison has issued a grim warning that further hardships are likely on the way as a result of the coronavirus pandemic as the number of cases soared overnight.  Australia saw a significant spike in the number of coronavirus cases on Monday morning with the amount of people infected jumping from 1,355 to 1,630 – with … Read more