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UK travellers may be banned from entering the EU from January 2021. UK citizens may be barred from entering the European Union from January 1 under current Covid-19 restrictions. When the Brexit transition period ends...
It’s welcome news for chocoholics everywhere! A new study has found that drinking hot chocolate could temporarily boost a person’s intelligence. Researchers at The University of Birmingham in the UK have conducted rese...
90-year-old Margaret Keenan has just become the first person to receive both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. In early December, the UK was the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. In...
Music festivals across the UK should be able to resume by summer 2021. The UK has officially become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer vaccine and it’s giving us all hope for a brighter 2021. Fingers...
The UK has just approved the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine—and it will be made available across the country in a matter of days. News of a vaccine has given many people hope over the last few weeks, and just this morning (De...
High street stores will be able to extend their opening hours in the run-up to Christmas. Primark recently announced that some of their stores will open for 24 hours post-lockdown, and it looks like other shops will so...
The cult-fave store will reopen its 153 stores in England next week. Following suspicions that Primark would be eyeing up new, round-the-clock opening hours – Primark has officially confirmed it’ll be extending its sho...
Birmingham will enter Tier 3 of the coronavirus alert system after lockdown ends on December 2. After Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the House of Commons on Monday to outline the government's plans for Decembe...
The Oxford English Dictionary has always chosen a single Word of the Year, but 2020 is an entirely different beast. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary names its Word Of The Year—a word that has entered our vernac...
The equation for Christmas is simple: three households, five days. With barely a month to go until Santa squeezes himself down the chimney (mask firmly on, we assume), our attention has been focused as much on the coro...