Yeah, it's changed now, wasn't there earlier. Some chap selling copper coloured stone as copper, COVID, Zayn Malik and a womans Champions league tie live were the pictoral headlines an hour back.
I've just been on the BBC website to look for updates. There's around 50 clickable stories on the front page (some appearing twice), this one isn't one of them yet if you go to the top 10 most read stories this sits at number 1. What's that all about?
It's my favourite time of the week, the wife is happy watching the masked singer and I won't be mithered for an hour or so. Tonight i'm trying to go for obscure stuff i've forgotten about over the years. Quite hard to find something when you don't remember what you're looking for but i've...
You can probably add Russia to the list too. Their deputy prime minister admitted 80% of their excess deaths involved COVID so around three times what their official count is. As he's not disappeared or been poisoned i'm inclined to believe he wasn't speaking out of turn.
First and foremost, I've not seen any family since a funeral the week before the first lockdown. My 13 month old daughter has not seen any of my side of the family in 12 months. That's been the biggest miss.
Aside from that i've lost my business and as my wife worked for me she lost her job...
1012 deaths (from various dates) announced in the daily NHS update today. That's the highest I've seen them ever announce. Add in all the other areas and today's going to be the highest yet, probably by some distance. Grim.
He's trying to get across the seriousness of the situation. I don't see the issue here? With Boris promising this that and the other it's good that we have someone sensible willing to say it how it is. I doubt he expected to become a household name when taking this job on but he's handled it and...
I would think we get announcement from Boris in the next 48 hours closing schools and probably putting the whol3 country into tier 4. It seems most primaries by me have decided not to open this week.
The worrying bit of that is the R rate of the new strain during the recent 'lockdown' was 1.45. I'm sure that will have in part been driven by schools remaining open so hopefully having them shut recently will bring that figure down to some extent.
If we are going to regain any sort of control...
981 deaths is down to the lag in reporting over Xmas. We went from 700 odd a day in the days before Xmas, then 3-400 for 4 days and now we are catching up. Expect tomorrow to be higher again. Scotland were giving 40 odd deaths a day before Xmas and have announced less than 50 in total for the...