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Coronavirus – Grand Brighton Hotel to be offered up to NHS workers
Instead the luxury seafront rooms at the Victorian hotel will be offered to “heroic” NHS staff, the establishment’s General Manager said.
Waste collection workers secure sick pay guarantee from Serco
The workers took strike action
‘Significant confusion’ in role of police in enforcing coronavirus restrictions
‘Considerable’ numbers of officers are in self-isolation, the Police Federation warned.
‘We needed a lockdown yesterday’ – MP slams Govt’s response
"More delays will only have even deadlier consequences."
Burglars steal food filled freezers from school for children of key workers
Gosfield School says it is working with police
Government strategy could lead to up to 70,000 excess deaths
A team of clinicians, statisticians and epidemiologists say the UK measures do not go far enough in stopping the spread of the disease.
Government to take over all rail franchises for “at least” six months
TSSA welcomed the move, but said it's sad that it has taken a pandemic for the government to take control of our railways.
Covid-19: UK doctors are ‘deeply apprehensive’ about a surge in cases
A consultant anaesthetist said hospitals have been working ‘very hard’ to prepare for what’s going to come.
Coronavirus UK – Nurse and mother-of-three, 36, in critical condition
Areema Nasreen is being treated at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands where she works.