Drug dealers are disguising themselves as key workers to avoid police during the UK’s coronavirus lockdown, officials have revealed. Lynne Owens, director-general of the National Crime Agency (NCA), said gangs were also dealing from supermarket car parks in an attempt to mix in with crowds. “We know that some groups Read more
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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as America’s manufacturers and retailers are hit hard by coronavirus shutdownLatest: American factories have worst month since WW2US retail sales in record slideIMF warns government borrowing will surgeIEA: oil demand faces record slumpProfits slide at Goldman and Citi 2.53pm BST Newsflash: Read more
Creative celebrations – such as with a painting, cake or dog trick – are ‘royal Shakespeare community’ projectHottest front-room seats: theatre and dance onlineThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationWhen Shakespeare was in plague lockdown in 1592 he wrote his great erotic poem Venus and Adonis. The Royal Shakespeare Company Read more
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In No10 tonight, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said people should brace for ‘hardship’ as he insisted the hit from the lockdown measures designed would be ‘temporary’. Via: Coronavirus UK: Rishi Sunak warns of 'tough times to come'