Brian Whittingham News Today

As a month long lockdown begins today in england, well be answering your questions on it. You can tweet me Annita Mcveigh or by posting with the hashtag bbcyourquestions. The bank of england says it will inject an extra £150 billion into the economy to help with the pandemic and Interest Rates remain unchanged. The chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to give details later of how furlogh will work if more parts of the uk go into a wider lockdown. Sainsburys announces it is cutting 3,500 jobs. T...

SIR – Letters concerning the failure of the Church of England to provide replacement vicars (December 21) quite rightly bemoan the loss of someone to lead them in worship. Yet this is not the only loss.

Plus: the ethics of doctors' strikes; the climate threat; a confiscated overdraft; in defence of SUVs; and Philip Larkin on agnosticism

A new poet laureate has been named for Renfrewshire in a move that comes as no surprise to his former primary school teacher.

Fears are growing that a change to a digital system will leave many isolated – including those who need the telephone the most

Homes that have had old phone lines ripped out left stranded

SIR – The world, especially the West, stood by while Vladimir Putin rigged elections, imprisoned political opponents, authorised killings on foreign soil and supported international law-breaking by Belarus.

11 December 2020 • 12:02am Fishy choice: turbot was for dinner for Boris Johnson and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen Credit: ImageBROKER / Alamy Stock Photo SIR – It is clear that the EU does not want a deal. Serving a fish supper to the Prime Minister can be taken only as the diplomatic equivalent of a V-sign. Let’s stop these pointless negotiations and play the EU and its members states at their own intransigent game. Let’s offer a large financial package to the car industry and subs...