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Pubs will shut before schools in a Covid upsurge, says PM
Boris Johnson has stressed that ministers will prioritise keeping schools open this winter as they tackle any upsurge in coronavirus cases. The government intends to continue using local lockdowns to…
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UK coronavirus live: lockdown restrictions to be lifted in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire – as it happened
Lockdown restrictions will be lifted for over 1 million people in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire for the first time in a month after a fall in…
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The Guardian view on Trump’s convention speech: the unwitting truth amid lies | Editorial
There are lies, there are damned lies – and then there was this week’s Republican national convention: a four-day cavalcade of brazen falsehoods from the president and his enablers. Wild…
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Covid lockdowns to be eased for over 1m people in north-west England
More than 1 million people in north-west England will be allowed to mix with other households for the first time in a month after a fall in coronavirus cases. Restrictions…
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UK businesses offering incentives to coax staff back into the office
Businesses are offering incentives such as free food, extra childcare and even executive parking spaces to coax staff back into the office but could fall foul of employment law if…
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Boris Johnson has given us a new mantra: Leave home. Forget the NHS. Save Pret | Marina Hyde
Like me, you will have been transfixed to discover that failed former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is being lined up for a senior role on the UK’s new Board…
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Coronavirus to worsen in coming months, Germany’s Merkel warns
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday the coronavirus pandemic was likely to worsen in coming months, and that life would not return to normal until a vaccine to combat…
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Property agent Midland posts worst interim results in four years as Hong Kong market hammered by coronavirus, social unrest
Midland Holdings, one of Hong Kong’s largest property agents, lost HK$24.3 million (US$3.1 million) in the first half, a reversal of the HK$94 million profit it reported a year ago…
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Football was fine in its biosecure bubbles – now it’s not looking so simple | Paul Wilson
Now the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season is over and a new one is ready to start, it is easy to believe some sort of normality is around the corner, that football…
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What my agonising back pain taught me about coronavirus complacency | Emma Brockes
I was in the upstairs bathroom of the Airbnb, bending down to – there’s no gilding this – wipe the bum of one of my children, when I felt something…