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The UK’s lockdown rules have changed once again, but what does it all mean? Life as we currently know it has become quite confusing again with the arrival of England’s third nationwide lockdown, currently scheduled to...
For the third time since March, England will enter a nationwide lockdown. New year, same old story, isn't it? Despite the pages of the calendar flipping over to 2021, we're getting in a throwback to 2020 quite quickly,...
Brian Pinker became the first UK patient to receive the Oxford vaccine this morning. 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, became the first person in the world to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The Oxfor...
The tampon tax has been abolished after a six-year long campaign. The "tampon tax" has now been abolished in the UK after the government honoured its March commitment to remove VAT on women’s sanitary products. ...
Any easing of restrictions would depend on the success of the vaccine and tier system, however. With almost 80% of England set to enter 2021 in Tier 4, the year isn’t exactly set to start on the front foot. Still, with...
Tier 4 has entered the chat. Birmingham has officially entered Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions, and while we should be used to the ever-changing rules and last minute lockdowns by now, this one came as a bit of a surpr...
The region will move up a tier. Following months of restrictions here in Birmingham, it has been confirmed that the entire region will move into Tier 4 – the newly created, stricter tier which previously included Londo...
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. By December 20, over 600,000 people in the UK had been vaccinated against coronavirus – and that number is only going to go up with today’s news. UK r...
Dozens of countries have banned travel from the UK after new variant of Covid raises alarm bells. Things have gone for bad to worse, and worse to catastrophic for the UK over the last few days. A new variant of Covid-1...
If you're planning to see your family over the holidays, it'll need to be on Christmas Day. Alongside today's government press conference, which saw London, the South East, and the East of England move to Tier 4, we we...