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Tier Four Ghost Town: London lies eerily deserted with Tube carriages empty and bars and restaurants deserted the weekend before Christmas after non-essential stores were shut under harsh new anti-Covid rules Boris Johnson revealed that a third of England - including London - will be thrust into a brutal Tier 4 lockdown Bracket will see non-essential shops shut, and travel restrictions including 'stay at home' order on Christmas  Crowds of shoppers flooded Oxford Street and Regent Street in London to get their last minute purchases But the jam-packed streets of yesterday evening looking near...

Experts predict the UK's tills will ring with a staggering £2.5million-a-minute spent before December 22   Mask-wearing shoppers rushed to get Christmas essentials in London's Oxford Street ahead of Tier 4 rules The scramble came after Boris Johnson yesterday revealed that a third of England will enter the new tier  Queues were also seen forming outside Costco in Manchester as people stocked up on Christmas essentials Newcastle high street was jam-packed with locals eager to get their last-minute presents bought In Southampton, tech-savvy buyers queued outside Currys PC World while Kent m...

BBC News By Simon Read image copyrightGetty Images Business and consumers across the UK are still facing worries that Christmas deliveries won't arrive on time. "Some things haven't been delivered yet, and it's causing stress to people waiting," said Ellie Chalkley, who has an Etsy shop in Glasgow. With just a week till the festive celebration, couriers are dealing with an unprecedented volume of parcels. "All delivery companies are experiencing exceptionally high volumes this year," said the Royal Mail. It added that the majority of the Royal Mail network is now running as usual in line wit...

Thousands of presents remain buried in mountains of post bags at sorting offices, it has been revealed.   One image posted on Twitter displayed the huge pile of Royal Mail sacks in Bristol. A second showed that sorting offices are so inundated that staff are having to stack items outside, putting parcels at risk of being damaged by rain or even stolen. Union bosses are reporting similar scenes across the country and have described the Christmas delivery chaos as a 'nightmare' after businesses complained parcels were taking up to a month to arrive. A massive switch to online shopping means t...

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