We’ve gone potty for Channel 4’s Great Pottery Throw Down during lockdown – here are the best ceramic museums and attractions to visit once restrictions lift London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has the finest collection of masterpieces Emma Bridgewater, based in in Stoke, offers free tours and demonstrations The Centre of Ceramic Art in York … Read more
‘You are doing a great job’: Boris Johnson sends an open letter to all Britain’s parents as No 10 plans to relax exercise rules and reopen schools when lockdown is finally relaxed to ease the pressure on our physical and mental health The Prime Minister penned an open letter to parents, carers and guardians Said they … Read more
Bereaved families will have to pay Covid fines if funerals break rules, undertakers say after police issued £10,000 penalty when 150 attended service Families who have lost loved ones may have to guarantee to pay cost of fines National Association of Funeral Directors have suggested new rules to members Suggested an alternative option of arranging … Read more
Married At First Sight Australia gains another celebrity fan as Duncan James admits he’s ‘obsessed’ – after Sam Smith called it ‘incredible television’ By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:11 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 08:24 GMT, 30 January 2021 Married At First Sight Australia has become a smash hit in the UK. … Read more
Mail Force hit the jackpot yesterday with a thumping £1million donation from Camelot. The National Lottery operator’s awesome offer to match reader donations sent the campaign to get laptops to lockdown pupils soaring. In less than a week, £5million has been raised and thousands of computers pledged – and this is just the beginning. Cheques, online … Read more
Boris Johnson wants exercise rules in lockdown relaxed as schools reopen to ease the pressure on our physical and mental health Boris Johnson is planning a roadmap to ease the nation’s strict Covid lockdown Last week he admitted that the current lockdown would last until March 8 Mr Johnson wants schools to be the first … Read more
More than 100,000 people are likely to die from non-coronavirus causes because of the pandemic, according to an official government estimate. By the end of next month the chaos in hospitals and care homes will have led to 46,000 avoidable deaths, Department of Health research has suggested. Cancellations to routine operations may cause 18,000 excess … Read more
France will shut its borders to all non-EU countries, including Britain, for all but essential travel, but has ruled out a third national lockdown. French Prime Minister Jean Castex made the announcement on Friday, saying that the travel ban will come into force from Sunday to try to limit the spread of new variant cases … Read more
There was no holding back the world’s finest travel photographers. Even amid the Covid pandemic they managed to deliver incredible images to the 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year contest. The organisers received 25,000 entries in total from photographers in 147 countries. Some submitted images taken close to home during lockdown, while others photographed countries in which they … Read more
SAGE urges No10 to make face masks compulsory outdoors in crowded areas to help stop the spread of super-infectious Kent variant Recommendation on January said advice on masks should be ‘strengthened’ SAGE called for people to consider wearing them outside in crowded areas In face of new variant mask wearing even more ‘important mitigation strategy’ … Read more