The Prime Minister had a net approval rating of 19% on Friday but a poll by Savanta ComRes today has him on -1% after he and senior ministers leapt to Mr Cummings’ defence and refused to sack him. Via: Dominic Cummings scandal: Boris Johnson's popularity plummets
Laurent F, 56, a French-born builder living in Germany, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his children Maya, two, and Leo, 5, and the attempted murder of their mother. Via: 'Construction foam killer' who murdered his children is jailed for life in Germany
A Kent Police spokesman said: ‘We were called at 1.23pm yesterday to a report a child had fallen from a window.’ Via: Baby suffers serious injuries plunging from fourth-floor window
The Department of Health has yet to update the official figures. The preliminary toll is calculated by adding up the individual tallies of each of the home nations. Via: Britain announces preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 142
Douglas Ross resigns as under-secretary of state for Scotland over adviser’s actions; Scotland’s test and protect scheme to launch later this weekCummings refuses to resign or apologise for lockdown breach‘Political gale’: world press on Dominic Cummings’ self-defenceGlobal coronavirus updates – liveCoronavirus latest: at a glanceSee all our coronavirus coverage 3.01pm Read more
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Police in England issue at least 22% of fines for contravening lockdown to 15.5% of populationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBlack, Asian and ethnic minority people in England are 54% more likely to be fined under coronavirus rules than white people, it can be revealed.Analysis by the civil Read more
Follows the resignation of Douglas Ross, junior minister at the Scotland Office, over top advisor’s lockdown trip to Durham Via: Dominic Cummings: Scottish Tory leader calls for resignation of top Boris Johnson aide
The picture we have of the prison estate’s drug epidemic is far from complete and, crucially, overlooks the policy of prescribing and dispensing synthetically-produced opiates for addicted inmates Via: 'A chaotic cycle of abuse and crime': The truth behind prescription drugs and prisons