[ad_1] Around 1.4 million people in South Yorkshire will face living under England’s toughest coronavirus restrictions, Mayor Dan Jarvis announced. The change to Level 3 will affect Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, and will take effect from 12:01 on Saturday. Jarvis revealed that local leaders raised £ 41 million in …
Read More »Coronavirus: Annual spending review looms as public debt hits 103.5% of GDP | Business news
[ad_1] The Treasury has announced a one-year spending review to “fully focus” on addressing the coronavirus crisis, as official figures show that debt records continue to be crushed. The government said it would have liked to outline spending plans for the rest of the current parliament, as originally planned. But …
Read More »Boris Johnson’s 3-year UK spending master plan to be abandoned
[ad_1] Boris Johnson’s hopes of regaining political initiative by establishing a three-year spending master plan for the rest of parliament have been abandoned. The Treasury confirmed on Wednesday that the proposed three-year comprehensive spending review had been scrapped in favor of a one-year review due to the economic chaos caused …
Read More »Polluted air kills half a million babies a year worldwide | Environment
[ad_1] Air pollution caused the premature death of nearly half a million babies in their first month of life last year, and most of the babies are in the developing world, data shows. Exposure to pollutants in the air is also harmful to babies in the womb. It can cause …
Read More »‘The people of Rochdale are going to suffer’ – How Greater Manchester COVID Hotspot Reacted to Level 3 | UK News
[ad_1] It was just a bag of baked bread, milk, eggs, and beans, but for Jane Little and her family, it makes a difference. Without her home delivery from a Rochdale-based charity, she really struggles to find her benefit money to feed her three adult children who have special needs. …
Read More »Covid: Hancock Defends ‘Fair’ Tier 3 Offering For Greater Manchester
[ad_1] Published duration1 hour before Related topics Coronavirus pandemic image copyrightPA media ScreenshotGreater Manchester’s 2.8 million inhabitants are the first to be forced to impose greater restrictions on objections from local leaders. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that a £ 60 million offer to help Greater Manchester deal with …
Read More »‘Degrees and disgust’: what the newspapers say about the tough restrictions imposed on Manchester | UK News
[ad_1] England’s growing north-south political divide dominates the newspapers after the Boris Johnson government imposed Level 3 restrictions on Manchester despite fierce resistance from the city’s mayor, Andy Burnham. the guardian reports that Burnham accused the prime minister of playing a “game of poker with people’s lives” after imposing the …
Read More »Britain’s 50th fattest man was hauled off the floor with a crane after he became addicted to fast food
[ad_1] The fattest man in GREAT BRITAIN is pulled from his flat for treatment after his weight shot up to 50. Takeout app addict Jason Holton, 30, of Camberley, Surrey, said his condition had trapped him indoors for five years. 9 Jason Holton’s weight shot up to 50 after he …
Read More »Coronavirus: Andy Burnham is the ‘King of the North’, a crown that the prime minister believed he had won | Political news
[ad_1] It was December 13, the morning after Boris Johnson won a landslide victory and destroyed the Labor Red Wall. The new prime minister stood on the steps of Number 10 and declared that his “One Nation” government had won parts of the country that “had never returned a Conservative …
Read More »“The sense of failure is overwhelming”: what Greater Manchester MPs say about Level 3
[ad_1] Members of Parliament have expressed their dismay after the Government announced that Greater Manchester would be placed under Level 3 coronavirus restrictions. Conservative and Labor MPs have been almost unanimous in their condemnation in today’s announcement. Boris Johnson confirmed that the region will receive a £ 22 million financial …
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