Coronavirus UK: Contract tracers say system is a ‘shambles’

With great fanfare, Boris Johnson last week announced a ‘world beating’ army of contact tracers whose job is to stop coronavirus in its tracks. No fewer than 25,000 have been hired. Their mission – to combat coronavirus by sleuthing down every person in danger of contracting Covid from each new case that emerges. On Thursday … Read more

RAY MASSEY: Car showrooms prepare to reopen

We’re coming back, is the defiant message delivered by one of the UK’s biggest car dealerships this week as thousands of showrooms across the UK prepare to reopen from Monday.  But in the case of Marshall Motors — whose brands include MINI, Audi, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, Peugeot, Mercedes-Benz, Skoda, Ford, Vauxhall, Volkswagen and … Read more

Norway and Denmark ban tourists from lockdown-free Sweden from entering the country

Norway and Denmark will reopen their borders to each other as coronavirus restrictions are eased, but not to their lockdown-free Scandinavian neighbour Sweden. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Friday Denmark will reopen its borders from June 15 to residents of Germany, Norway and Iceland but ‘with restrictions’, while Norway said it would do … Read more

Justin Hartley kisses his former co-star Sofia Pernas amid Chrishell Stause divorce

Justin Hartley was seen locking lips with his former The Young and the Restless co-star Sofia Pernas, after filing for divorce from his wife of two-years Chrishell Stause in November.   The 43-year-old actor appeared lost in the moment, as he kissed Pernas, 30, outside the Southern California Orthopedic Institute on Friday.  His doting new girlfriend not only dropped … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Coronavirus pandemic skewers EU

ALEX BRUMMER: No one can look at troubles inside the EU with any equanimity – it is the UK’s biggest trading partner and a critical market By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 As the world faces the deepest slump since the … Read more