Families across the UK are scrambling to figure out how they can keep their children’s education going at home. Sky News asked the experts.
Month: March 2020
The collapse of Thomas Cook will cost taxpayers at least £156m, an investigation by a government watchdog as found.
A “wonderfully kind” father-of-two who was fighting motor neurone disease (MND) has become the youngest person to die after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK.
Government-backed loans worth £330bn and a three-month mortgage holiday have been announced by the chancellor as part of “unprecedented” measures to help businesses and families.
Criminal trials which are due to last longer than three days will be put on hold due to the spread of coronavirus.
The coronavirus outbreak is “very likely” to lead to a rise in divorce rates because couples are being kept in self-isolation together, a leading divorce lawyer has said.
A further 14 people have died after being diagnosed with coronavirus in England, bringing the UK’s total to 71.
The government ramped up measures against the coronavirus epidemic following new predictions that the UK could otherwise have seen 250,000 deaths.
Boris Johnson has told Britons to avoid pubs, clubs, restaurants and theatres and to only make essential journeys in the “national fightback” against coronavirus.
A total of 55 people in the UK have now died after testing positive for the coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.