Elma Cavalida died in April after contracting Covid-19 As we continue our look-back over 2020, May continued to bring tragic news as the pandemic continued. Elma Cavalida, 49, who worked at the Harrow hospital since arriving to the UK in 2010, died on April 26 after contracting Covid-19. She was admitted to Barnet General Hospital on April 8 after her symptoms began to flare up; her husband called her a “true fighter”. Belly Mujinga, 47, a railway ticket office worker died in April of coronavirus. Ms Mujinga, a mother to 11-year-old Ingrid, was admitted to Barnet Hospital and put on a ventilator but died on April 5, her trade union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, said.
Prime Minister hopes border chaos will be resolved in a few hours after phone call with Emmanuel Macron
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Boris Johnson has said he hopes border chaos will be sorted in a few hours after a phone call with Emmanuel Macron.
The Prime Minister confirmed that he had an excellent discussion with the French President, after hauliers were banned from entering France from the UK.
He said: It was an excellent conversation with the French president he said he was keen to sort it out in the next few hours. Our teams will be working on it flat out and if we can get a result then that will be great but we ll do it as fast as we can.
Train passengers to be hit with extortionate price hikes on tickets in 2021. (PA Wire) Train passengers will be hit with a price hike in 2021, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. Ticket prices will increase by an average of 2.6% from March 1 next year, which is July’s Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation plus 1%, seeing an above inflation fares rise for the first time in eight years. Successive governments have linked fare rises to RPI since January 2014, but the DfT said this policy has been axed due to the “unprecedented taxpayer support” handed to the rail industry over the past 12 months.
Commuters facing extortionate rail fare price hike next year COMMUTERS are facing an inflation-busting £141 rise in season ticket costs next year. Ticket prices will increase by an average of 2.6% from March 1, which is July’s Retail Prices Index measure of inflation plus 1%. Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said the rise reflected unprecedented taxpayer support for rail this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. But unions have called the rise was a kick in the teeth for passengers. The Department for Transport has written to all train operators asking them to begin work on developing flexible season tickets, allowing people who travel two or three days a week to save money compared with buying daily tickets.
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