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Morrisons Chief Executive, David Potts said: “Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won’t be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt. … [Read more...] about Panic buyers raid supermarket shelves again as Boris Johnson warns of tighter lockdown if people don’t comply

Four million Brits have had a vaccine - including half of over 80-year-olds and care home resident Five million over 70s are set to start getting vaccines this week 24 hour vaccination clinics will begin being trialled in London A shocking new study showed one in eight Covid patients die within 140 days of recovery Police officers, teachers, supermarket staff and other key workers could be next in line for the jab Matt Hancock will give a press conference at 5pm Mr Zahawi said today the Government was on track to meet the mid-February target to vaccinate 13 million of the most vulnerable Brits and lockdown could start to be eased a few weeks after that. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson vows lifting lockdown won’t be ‘open sesame moment’ after February 15 & will come ‘gradually’

The Covid-19 mass vaccine programme will not have an impact on hospital admissions or death rates until 'well into February', national medical director for NHS England Stephen Powis warned today;  Ministers are facing a major Tory revolt over whether to extend the £20 a week uplift to Universal Credit during pandemic;  First Minister Mark Drakeford has defended the slower rollout of the vaccination programme in Wales – saying the Pfizer vaccine could not be used all at once;  NHS data showed the North East and Yorkshire made most headway in the first month of vaccinations, reaching 44 per cent of all over-80s  NHS figures revealed one in six Covid-19 patients in English NHS hospitals arrived without the virus but were infected there since September; Another 671 deaths were recorded, the highest number for any Sunday of the pandemic so far, along with 38,598 new cases; Ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption sparked a row after … [Read more...] about Dropped the ball again, Matt? Hoodie-wearing Health Secretary plays rugby with his sons as he’s seen for second time over weekend… after Boris issued urgent plea for public to ‘stay at home’

But, incredibly, what regaining control of our coastal waters meant was reducing, not increasing, Scottish catching quotas for no fewer than eight demersal species. An outraged letter from the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations to Boris Johnson declared: 'It is not that in the end that you were forced to concede in the face of an intransigent and powerful opponent that has caused such fury across our industry, it is that you have tried to present the agreement as a success which it is patently not'. … [Read more...] about Police fine 15 Scottish sea food truckers £200 each for making ‘unnecessary journeys’ as they descend on No10 after vowing to dump tons of rotting fish on PM’s doorstep over Brexit border chaos

'And of course the fishing industry is going to want to increase its capacity to take advantage of those increased stocks and that is why we are putting in £100million to shore up, to strengthen the fishing industry right across the whole of the UK to make sure that this really important opportunity of leaving the EU and leaving the transition period can be properly grasped.'  … [Read more...] about Dominic Raab insists ministers are trying to fix post-Brexit border ‘teething problems’ as the Scottish fishing industry warns many firms are days from collapse