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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. London's 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 raves and gatherings held tonight and will slap organisers with £10,000 super-fines.  Though score...

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 risk of pressure on the NHS The highest risk group, of over-70s, those with health conditions and heal...

Britain will need draconian lockdowns until AT LEAST the summer and Tier 4 rules can't 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 stop transmission Young people are currently not on the vaccination list so even a successful roll-out...

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 illegal raves sent the r-rate soaring. Three quarters of England is now in tier four, with some 44 mill...

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 England's population. Some 12million people will be in tier three, or 22 per cent of the population, while no area will be in tier two. Only the Isles...