Health leaders are calling for an urgent review to ensure Britain is properly prepared for the “real risk” of a second wave of coronavirus.
Pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels and historic sites will have to keep customers’ details for 21 days under plans to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Britain sweltered in its hottest day of the year so far on Wednesday – and the record is expected to be beaten once again on Thursday.
The housing secretary was “insistent” a planning application be allowed just in time to save its Tory donor backer up to £50m, new government documents reveal.
Internet users in the UK are spending a record-breaking amount of time online during the lockdown, according to a new Ofcom report.
The prime minister has announced a reduction in the two-metre social distancing rule, as he gave the green light for pubs, restaurants, hotels, hairdressers and barbers in England to reopen from 4 July.
All four UK nations are continuing to loosen their lockdown measures to allow people more freedom.
Pubs have been given the green light to reopen on 4 July, but post-lockdown pints may be served behind Perspex screens after ordering via a phone app.
Evidence of a split between Boris Johnson and his most senior scientific and medical advisers was laid bare within hours of his announcement of measures to ease the lockdown.
Cinemas, museums and galleries in England are to be allowed to re-open from 4 July, in the latest move by Boris Johnson to restore normal life after the three-month coronavirus lockdown.