Month: May 2020

The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was one of several protesters arrested during a protest against the coronavirus lockdown.

A third person has been charged with murdering an NHS worker, who was allegedly chased and stabbed eight times after leaving his home to go shopping.

The government is to invest up to £93m in the UK’s new vaccine manufacturing centre to ensure it opens next summer.

Emily Mee lost her father in January, before coronavirus had reached the UK and before goodbyes involved social distancing, video calls and the added worries of a global pandemic.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has sought to reassure parents and teachers worried about government plans to get some children back to school on 1 June.

A teachers’ union and city mayor have hit back at government calls to send children back to school on 1 June – saying they will not let that happen unless it is “safe” for them to return.

Mental health services face a “tsunami” of cases following the COVID-19 lockdown, a leading psychiatric body has warned.

A woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of human remains in two suitcases.

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy had prepared himself for a break this year after finishing the band’s ambitious Simulation Theory tour in 2019.

Trials are going ahead to see if dogs could provide a non-invasive way of detecting the coronavirus.