A wife whose husband tried to kill her in her sleep after they lost their jobs and ran up £25,000 in debt said he had done it “from a place of love”.Karen Sawyer, 61, was sleeping when “gentle giant” Andrew Sawyer, 69, came up to bed to cuddle her before he slashed her wrist and said: “I’ll stay with you until the end, and then I’ll do me.”Mrs...
In Frankfurt, Germany, you can’t simply grab a burger inside a restaurant, go to an indoor pool or have a drink in an indoor bar. Before doing so, you have to present either certification of full vaccination, or a negative test result from the last 24 hours. To make this work, testing centres are literally at every corner (often in converted barber shops), with results available within 10-15...
Leading lockdown sceptic Toby Young has admitted he was “wrong” to dismiss the emergence of a second Covid-19 wave, after he claimed the virus had “all but disappeared”. The right-wing columnist and free speech advocate was challenged over his views on the pandemic and government restrictions on BBC Newsnight. Presenter Emily Maitlis reminded Mr Young that in June he claimed a second wave had...
England is due to take its next step out of lockdown on Monday 17 May, with Boris Johnson confirming the country will move onto phase three of the government’s roadmap as planned. The third lifting of restrictions since the nation began emerging from lockdown in March will see all but the most high-risk businesses reopen indoors and socialising inside permitted once more. Mr Johnson also physical...
Joe Wicks is relaunching his live “PE lessons” on Monday morning as the UK enters the second week of another national lockdown. The fitness coach and author, also known as The Body Coach, first created the weekly online exercise sessions in March when the UK went into lockdown for the first time as a way of keeping children fit while schools were closed. The workouts were hugely...
The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 caused huge concern around the world when it was discovered in southern Africa in mid-November, not least because it was found to be highly transmissible and because the 32 mutations to its spike protein suggested it might be able to resist current vaccines. Prior to Christmas, UK prime minister Boris Johnson introduced a series of “Plan B” social...
England is set to move into the next stage of lockdown easing, as the Covid-19 alert level for the UK was downgraded after a “consistent” fall in cases, hospital admissions and deaths. Boris Johnson has announced that from 17 May, a number of restrictions on social mixing will be lifted – enabling people to mix indoors and hug their loved ones. The prime minister set out plans for the move into...