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Coronavirus UK – Ensure children don’t go hungry if schools close, charities urge Govt
Ministers have been asked to make cash available for low-income families.
Inspectors voice ‘serious concerns’ over UK-run immigration detention facilities
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons visited holding centres at Coquelles and the ports of Calais and Dunkerque over two days.
Equity agrees out-of-court settlement with Laurence Fox after ‘disgrace’ comment
A source close to Fox said it had been a ‘very difficult period for him and his family’.
Coronavirus UK – London tube driver tests positive
The man recently returned from holiday in Vietnam, said sources.
US judge orders release of WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning
The former Army intelligence analyst had been in prison since May.
Photos show tons of rubbish piled up in dock turning water into sea of litter
Driftwood, plastic, rubbish and even car tyres filled the Bull Nose off the River Ribble in Preston, blown in overnight
All French schools and universities to shut due to coronavirus
French President Emmanuel Macron urged people over 70 to stay at home.
Lack of political commitment in some countries to control coronavirus, says WHO
The director-general of the World Health Organisation was briefing on Covid-19.
Coronavirus – ‘Wash hands’ written above Sydney in skywriting
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, an unknown skywriter reminded residents to wash their hands.