Andrew Lloyd Webber has taken another swipe at the government after his new show Cinderella was forced to close down due to a coronavirus case. On Monday afternoon, the impresario announced that the musical would not be going ahead with its “Freedom Day” show after a cast member caught COVID-19, forcing a number of the
Month: July 2021
The government will not draw up a list of critical jobs that will be exempt from full self-isolation if workers are “pinged”. Instead, employers will have to apply to government departments to allow workers to effectively circumvent the rules. Boris Johnson announced on Monday that critical workers, who have been fully vaccinated for at least
A minister has not explicitly ruled out the prospect of the government requiring vaccine passports for people to go to pubs. Business minister Paul Scully told Kay Burley that ministers are “not saying crowded pubs at all” in addition to plans to require people to prove their COVID-19 vaccine status to enter nightclubs and other
Easyjet has revealed that fewer than half of UK flights for this summer have been booked as customers leave it late to arrange trips. The budget airline said capacity for the usually lucrative July-September period was just 44% sold, down from 69% in the same period in 2019 before the pandemic. It said customers “are
More than 360,000 acres (531 square miles) have been destroyed by a wildfire in the US state of Oregon, where more than 2,000 people have been given evacuation orders, while a similar number of firefighters are battling the blaze. The Bootleg fire, centred in and around the Fremont-Winema National Forest, 250 miles (400km) south of
Jeff Bezos says his dream of travelling into space was born when, as a five year old, he watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon in 1969. Fifty-two years to the day, the Amazon founder and richest man on the planet will blast off in his own rocket to make that dream
At least 35 people are dead after a suicide bomber struck a crowded market in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. The bombing in the Sadr City area on Monday also injured more than 60 people, with a number of them in critical condition, according to police. It happened on the eve of the Eid
More than 430 migrants sailed across the English Channel to the UK on Monday. The number set a new single-day record, passing the previous daily high of 416 set in September last year, according to data compiled by the PA news agency. Monday’s figure included a group of around 50 men, women, and children who
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said he is “ready”, not nervous, for his flight to the edge of space. The billionaire is set to blast off on Blue Origin’s sub-orbital New Shepard rocket from Texas, with his brother Mark, female astronaut Wally Funk who trained in 1961 but never went to space, as well as
There has been widespread criticism of the NHS COVID-19 Test and Trace app from business leaders, but new data analysis suggests it is doing what it is designed to do. An increasing number of people are being forced to self-isolate after coming in contact with someone with COVID, largely driven by the app. More than
Cinderella will not be going to the ball for now, after Andrew Lloyd Webber said the “blunt instrument that is the government’s isolation guidance” has forced him to close the show. The show, which has been written by Oscar-winning Emerald Fennell, was due to have a “Freedom Day” performance on Monday evening after the government
People will need to have proof of full vaccination to enter nightclubs and other “crowded venues” from the end of September, the vaccines minister has announced. Nadhim Zahawi said a negative coronavirus test would soon “no longer be sufficient” proof that a person wasCOVID-safe. Speaking in the Commons on the day England’s nightclubs were allowed
Clinically vulnerable children and those living with at-risk adults will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine – but most teenagers will not, Nadhim Zahawi has announced. The vaccines minister told MPs that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JVCI) has recommended that children “at an increased risk of serious COVID-19 disease” should be offered the
Downing Street has said the prime minister was already at his country retreat when he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to isolate – as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer labelled Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s initial decision to “dodge” quarantine as “crass and insensitive”. According to the prime minister’s official
A furore has broken out in India over allegations that government agencies snooped on the phones of ministers, opposition leaders, judges, human rights activists, lawyers, businessmen and journalists. An international collaboration known as the “Pegasus Project” by news and human rights organisations has alleged that multiple governments across the world hired an Israeli surveillance technology
The Chinese government has been accused of “systematic cyber sabotage” in statements by the UK and allies, including the US and Canada. The allies are announcing that they believe Chinese state-sponsored hackers were responsible for an attack earlier this year which “indiscriminately” compromised an estimated 400,000 servers worldwide, leaving them exposed to criminals. More than
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