Countryside communities are begging Britons to stay away this warm weekend for fear of being swamped by crowds eager to take advantage of the lockdown loosening. Tomorrow marks the first day much of the nation will have time to enjoy the slackened travel restrictions brought in by Boris Johnson on Wednesday. Many have already seized … Read more
Britons took full advantage of the loosened lockdown today by heading to parks and beaches to soak up the sunshine. Boris Johnson’s road map back to normality has given the green light for unlimited exercise and sunbathing, which has been seized upon by the public. Fitness enthusiasts were pictured working up a sweat in London’s … Read more
No one could have appeared more plausible than Thomas Fairfax, the middle-aged divorcee who arrived in the small Gloucestershire town of Lydney in the winter of 1991. Tall, well-spoken and smartly dressed in a cashmere overcoat, expensive Italian shoes and neat shirt and tie, he soon became a familiar face — driving around town in … Read more
No one could have appeared more plausible than Thomas Fairfax, the middle-aged divorcee who arrived in the small Gloucestershire town of Lydney in the winter of 1991. Tall, well-spoken and smartly dressed in a cashmere overcoat, expensive Italian shoes and neat shirt and tie, he soon became a familiar face — driving around town in … Read more
Adorable footage shows otters and badgers relaxing and playing with their young in North Wales as the coronavirus lockdown leads to a marked reduction in human activity Hidden cameras in rural North Wales captured the footage of the animals Shows several badgers playing together in the middle of the night Wildlife expert from Wales also … Read more
‘Sunday driver’ effect is part of the reason MORE fatal car crashes occur in rural areas than in urban cities Peak for fatal car crashes is in rural areas and on a Sunday, UCL study shows Weekdays have two spikes in collisions for morning and evening rush hour More total collisions are seen in urban areas … Read more
Rural America is seeing higher death rates from the novel coronavirus than its urban counterparts because of an aging population, a new report suggests. The research examined the impact of age on the potential death rate in each US county. A demographer found that more than half of the country’s rural counties would have significantly … Read more
The family of a ‘scared’ 20-year-old British woman stranded in Honduras because of the coronavirus pandemic is calling on the Government to bring her home. Freya Madeley, 20, is trying to return from a rural area of the Central American country, where she had been volunteering as an English teacher. It is understood the British … 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
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