There are "no plans" to give everyone who tests positive for coronavirus a one-off payment of GBP500, Downing Street has said.The dramatic proposal, which would cost the government a massive GBP453m a week or...
The percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 in England has decreased slightly but remains high, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Around 1 in 55 people who are not...
The brother of one of the Reading terror attack victims has spoken on what would have been his 40th birthday, saying his life had been "taken away for no reason whatsoever".American Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39,...
Retail sales in 2020 saw the largest annual fall in history as retailers continued to suffer from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Despite a 0.3% rise in sales volumes during December, the figure for...
Joe Biden has warned that the fight to bring coronavirus under control in the US is a "wartime undertaking" - devoting much of his first full day in office to tackling the pandemic.The new...
Everyone who tests positive for coronavirus could soon receive a one-off payment of £500, in a government move to persuade more people to get a test and self-isolate after a positive result.
