Category: Daily Updates

Brexit – UK-EU trade agreement takes effect The UK-EU trade agreement, which contains new rules for living, working and trading together, took effect from 23:00 GMT on 31 December 2020. Resume: trade and tariffs There will be no tariffs on goods (taxes) or limits on the amount that can be traded (quotas) between the UK...

Green number plates are set to be rolled out from autumn, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed on 16 June. As part of the government’s plans to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, drivers will be encouraged to make the switch to electric vehicles through the introduction of green number plates. The plates will make it...

99 years Brazillian WW2 veteran Emanda Piveta has become the country’s oldest person to recover from Covid-19 and 106 year old Connie Titchen is thought to be Britain’s oldest survivor. H&M has started to produce protective aprons and UK clothing brand Barbour has also changed it’s production line in order to create protective gowns. A...

News from the Office for Budget Responsibility says that GDP could plunge by more than a third in the second quarter of the year and 13% for 2020 on the whole. The economics forecaster has warned that Britain’s economy could shrink by 35% during Q2. EU countries have continued to take steps towards easing lockdowns,...

A 5km running challenge has raised over £1m for NHS staff in just over two weeks after going viral on social media. The Run for Heroes campaign challenges people to use their permitted daily exercise to run 5km, donate £5 to help frontline NHS workers, and then tag five others to do the same. It has quickly...

As we approach Easter, Cadbury’s has donated 13,000 Easter eggs to NHS workers around the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, while chocolatiers in Belgium have donated around 10 million to the country’s care home residents and workers. The NHS has launched a free mental health hotline to offer support to hundreds of thousands of...

Starting with some good news, the BBC announced a special Big Night In show, with Children in Need and Comic Relief. The special, which is set to air on 23 April from 7pm, will feature the likes of Peter Kay, Matt Baker, Zoe Ball, Lenny Henry and Gary Barlow. The event sees BBC’s Children in...

Starting with some good news, a charity campaign which called for people to camp out in tents and leisure vehicles in the gardens has raised more than £90,000 for the NHS.  Ian Alcorn, from Nottinghamshire, started the campaign on Just Giving and has originally hoped to raise around £100. For more information on Ian’s campaign,...

In a regular news cycle, the appointment of Sir Kier Starmer as the new head of the Labour party might have been given a little more column inches and screen time… but this is no ordinary news cycle. This weekend also brought with it a historic moment as The Queen delivered an address to the...