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BBC News By Caroline Lowbridge image captionJessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk. The women were also told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were "classed as a picnic". Guidance for the current lockdown says people can travel for exercise as long as it is in their "local area". The po...

Crowther v Crowther & Ors [2020] EWHC 3555 (Fam) Successful application for indemnity costs on preliminary issues in financial remedy proceedings when allegations of fraud and conspiracy were withdrawn and claims discontinued shortly before the trial. Mr Crowther applied for Mrs Crowther to pay his costs of preliminary issues on an indemnity basis. There had been highly acrimonious and litigious financial remedy proceedings since late 2019. Mr and Mrs Crowther had run a successful shipping bu...

Pubs, parties and parliament: Your countdown to 2020’s most flagrant coronavirus lockdown breaches Colin Drury © Provided by The Independent Dominic Cummings pictured giving a statement from Number 10’s Rose GardenJonathan Brady/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Rules, so they say, are made to be broken – and, if this year has taught us anything, it’s that even in the middle of a global health crisis some people will look at measures designed to keep them and their loved ones...

26 Dec 2020 Stalking dog walkers, fines for unauthorised car journeys, telling Britons to snitch on their neighbours, and arresting protesters at Britain’s sacred space for free speech are just some examples of British policing during 2020, the year of the Chinese virus. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson passed the emergency coronavirus legislation on March 23rd, he also gave police expanded powers to enforce it, telling Britons: “If you don’t follow the rules, the police will have the p...

SIR – On Friday the Government put an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph telling readers how many hundreds of millions of pounds it had spent on the development, purchase and distribution of Covid vaccines. However, the primary care health group to which my GP surgery belongs has no idea how many vaccines it will receive, or when. My wife is over 80 and would like to know. Dr Martin Henry   SIR – Further to Lesley Wright’s letter (December 19) regarding invitations for Covid vaccinati...

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:53 UTC A general view of a family delivering Christmas presents on December 19 before going into a lockdown at midnight in Cardiff, WalesSome of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire. Christmas Day wasnt much better and when I eventually made it home I...

20 Dec 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump has slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to “cancel Christmas” in much of England with a new “tier four” regional lockdown, saying the “cure” to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic “cannot be worse than the problem itself!” The American leader responded on social media to his British counterpart’s decision to scrap a partial five-day respite from lockdown rules over Christmas and plunge London and much of southern England into ...

19 Dec 2020 Lord Sumption, who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom until 2018, has branded lockdowns “useless” and a “profoundly immoral” imposition on the young. Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, who still serves on the Supplementary Panel of Britain’s top court, suggested that Boris Johnson’s government has “adopted a succession of on-off lockdowns or semi-lockdowns” because “a permanent lockdown would have been politically impossible, socially in...

PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday 22:01 19 Dec 2020, updated 01:53 20 Dec 2020 294 shares Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire. Christmas Day wasnt muc...

« 17 years ago Saddam Hussein had just been captured and I was on my way across the desert to to Baghdad, to write this... | Main | For a course in how to think, read my books » PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column   Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas! Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under...