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Advertisement Just four per cent of Britons say they will break Covid regulations to celebrate with loved ones tonight as the country prepares to see in the New Year under draconian lockdown. Londons monuments have been fenced off to deter revellers from throwing illegal street parties, with Trafalgar Square and the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament boarded up in the Tier 4 city.       Police forces across the country have warned that officers will break up and disperse any illegal r...

Who will we sacrifice to get out of lockdown? Return to normal life by Easter depends if No10 will accept immunising only a fraction of the 31million most vulnerable people and giving up on herd immunity Experts say lifting lockdown rules will be a risk whenever it happens and it must be a political decision There are around 31million people on the vaccine priority list, each of whom must get two doses of a jab But rules could be loosened before the list is complete is ministers can tolerate ri...

Britain will need draconian lockdowns until AT LEAST the summer and Tier 4 rules cant contain new mutant strain, scientists warn as SAGE expert fears national action by end of January is inevitable Experts say it will take months before effect of mass vaccination is broad enough to loosen lockdown rules Although Matt Hancock claimed normality could return by spring, scientists expect lockdowns into summer Social distancing and mask-wearing will have to continue for far longer, they said, to sto...

Updated: 31 Dec 2020, 15:33 A STRING of illegal New Year’s Eve raves are being secretly planned across Tier 4 London, the Sun Online can reveal.  Thousands of people are expected to attend the events which could send Covid spreading even faster through the capital.  12 12 Organisers face being slapped with a £10,000 fine for breaching Covid rules Organisers are not being deterred by the prospect of £10,000 fines and are planning events similar to those in the summer when a string of ill...

Millions more Britons were plunged into the toughest tier four lockdown restrictions today, while the rest of the country was moved up into tier three. Among the areas of England moving to tier four from midnight tonight are the Midlands, parts of the North East and North West and parts of the South West. An additional 20million people will moved to the highest tier. This means a total of 44million people will be in tier four, or 78 per cent of Englands population. Some 12million people will be...

Plymouth moves into Tier 3: what it means for restaurants, cafes, hairdressers and more Matt Hancock made the announcement in the House of Commons this afternoon The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Politics, environment, farming and more in your new free Western Morning News newsletter - direct to your inbox every dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes the...

Updates from the tumultuous day it was announced Teesside will go into Tier 4 Large parts of the north will go into the top tier Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Teesside is to go into Tier 4 lockdown on Thursday along with large swathes of the north, the Government has confirmed. Health Secretary Matt Hancock made the announcement in the House of Commons on Wednesday as a new variant of covid-19 spreads across the country. Teesside has been in the Very High tier 3 level si...

TIER WE GO Full list of areas going into Tier 3 from tonight including parts of the South West, Liverpool and Dorset Updated: 30 Dec 2020, 18:42 Invalid Date, MILLIONS of people will be plunged into Tier 3 restrictions from tonight as Britain grapples with the new mutant Covid strain. 5 The rules mean all shops can stay open and people can meet outdoors in groups of up to six. But pubs and restaurants must close except for delivery and takeaway service. Among those moving into Tier 3 from mid...

New contractors appointed to roll out fibre broadband across Devon and Somerset Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet selected to roll out full-fibre networks on behalf of the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme Share this item with your network: By Published: 24 Dec 2020 10:30 Undeterred by criticism from a parliamentary committee inquiry for the unrealistic nature of its gigabit broadband roll-out targets, the UK government has announced the companies it will rely upon to expa...

Does 70% of England REALLY need to be in Tier Three? How 86 areas under harshest restrictions are recording fewer Covid cases than national average — and five parts of the country with the quickest-growing outbreaks escaped toughest curbs Total of 38 million people will be faced with Tier 3 come Saturday after swathes of South East hit with curbs  Tory MPs said it was totally unacceptable that low infection towns dragged into Tier 3 due to hotspot areas  A lockdown split did emerge today in...