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Today’s increase is the second biggest Britain has seen so far, but with 51 fewer deaths than yesterday, there could be hopes that the figures are beginning to plateau. Via: UK coronavirus death toll increases by 209 from 1,019 to Read more

Amid mounting criticism, Michael Gove insisted the government was ‘very concerned’ about the growing death toll and was doing ‘all that we can’ to ‘accelerate’ the numbers of tests. Via: Michael Gove says coronavirus tests have FINALLY hit 10,000 a Read more

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to announce a huge repatriation effort as early as tomorrow amid mounting fears over safety. Via: RAF 'could help bring stranded Britons home amid coronavirus chaos'

A city more reliant than most on oil and gas reserves hopes to profit from a shift to net zeroAberdeen is one of the few cities in the world where your taxi driver is almost guaranteed to know the global Read more

Lockdown will be in place for ‘significant period’, says Gove; Labour MP and doctor Rosena Allin-Khan says Boris Johnson should self-isolate for 14 daysBoris Johnson to warn: tougher lockdown may be necessaryMichael Gove appears to blame China over lack of Read more

Britons donned gloves and facemasks on trips to supermarkets nationwide today, after the death toll from the virus reached 1,228 over the weekend. Via: Tesco limits customers to just ONE item of milk, bread and toilet roll each

Michael Gove said it was right to put the UK into lockdown to limit the spread of the disease, even though it meant spiralling UK debt, as you cannot ‘put a price on lives’. Via: Michael Gove hints at looming Read more

(Merge)Sobriety can smooth any artist’s fuzzy edges. Named after the Alabama creek that runs behind her childhood home, Katie Crutchfield, AKA Waxahatchee, ditched alcohol for good before making her fifth album, Saint Cloud, which sees her sound leap from reverb-laden Read more