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‘Highly concerning’ variant of Covid from South Africa in UK as highest number of cases in a day recorded
Also millions more people are to be taken into Tier 4 from Boxing day.
‘Really angry and hungry’ as Christmas hopes fade for lorry drivers stuck in Kent
“I have a small baby at home, it would be first Christmas together, but that’s it, I guess we’ll do it on Facebook."
Former Tory politician unapologetic after telling free school meals campaigners ‘if you can’t feed, don’t breed’
"Many of these so-called impoverished children have smart phones and we expect the taxpayers to dip into their pockets to feed them."
Dover chaos – Man arrested as stranded lorry drivers clash with police
Dozens of drivers at the Manston site can be seen standing outside of their lorries waiting for food and water. Others have been honking their vehicle’s horns in unison to demonstrate their feelings.
Germany’s Lufthansa to airlift fresh fruit and veg to UK amid port chaos
The airline is carrying 80 tonnes of food from Frankfurt to Doncaster Sheffield Airport in a Boeing 777, as almost 3,000 lorries remain stuck in Kent.
Farage mocked for vowing Manston Airport won’t ‘become lorry park’
"We in UKIP do not want to see the Ramsgate area become a lorry park," Farage tweeted in 2015.
Xmas and Covid ‘heightening risk of domestic abuse’ as ‘thousands of children’ at risk
One in five offences – more than a quarter of a million – recorded by police during and immediately after the first national lockdown in England and Wales involved domestic abuse.
Sikh community rallies to the aid of stranded Kent lorry drivers
Volunteers from Khalsa Aid, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, travelled over 80 miles to help provide more than 800 meals to the truckers.