Month: July 2021

Supermarkets and pubs close: Iceland has been forced to close shops due to staff shortages caused by people being forced to self-isolate by the NHS Covid app. 

The Daily Mail says Freedom Day was branded ‘disaster day’ by businesses today as self-isolating Boris Johnson faces fresh demands to dump test and trace

The Daily Mirror says Lockdown rule changes: from one minute past midnight today, 483 days of Covid regulations in England come to an abrupt end.

A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 40, police and rescue officials said.

The Times says Priti Patel’s proposal to penalise all asylum seekers trying to cross the Channel in small boats would cost taxpayers up to £412 million a year, new research has found.

The i says MPs have urged the Government to fix the “flawed” NHS Covid Pass scheme after an i investigation found people are able to obtain their so-called freedom passes

The Guardian says no matter who you are, or what sports you enjoy, the Olympics remains the greatest show on earth. It’s bigger than anything in football

The Times says England won this most unusual of matches by a distance to level their Twenty20 series with Pakistan at 1-1 before what will now be the decider at Emirates Old Trafford

The Guardian says the Australian government has cancelled Katie Hopkins’ visa after the far-right commentator boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions.

The i says a convicted murderer nicknamed the “Hollywood ripper” has been sentenced to death for the murder of two women and the attempted murder of a third in Los Angeles in the 2000s.