Care home workers say employers are playing "Russian roulette" with their lives as personal protective equipment (PPE) is withheld or rationed amid unclear guidance, according to a union.

A dating app is providing London bus drivers with free face bandanas, amid fears of a lack adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline transport staff.

Military-style discipline will be needed from every individual to get the country safely back to work, the Defence Secretary said today as ministers started preparing to modify the two-metre social distancing rule.

Headteachers are planning for life after the lockdown to ensure the return to school will be safe for all children and staff.

London's Nightingale hospital will be put "on standby" within days as a result of the capital passing the peak of coronavirus cases.

The UK will use a mobile app to try and control the spread of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

US president predicts economic surge later this year as several states begin tentatively re-opening for business after weeks of shutdown

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Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

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The coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen to more than 32,000 - and may now be the highest in Europe.

Union bosses have written to Sadiq Khan to demand a reversal of Transport for London's "disgraceful" decision to deny free travel to London Underground's cleaners.

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A new survey suggests people think the behaviour of drivers and cyclists has deteriorated since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two 20-year-old men were arrested on suspicion of public order offences

A French hospital which has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had Covid-19 as early as December 27.

A London war memorial has been vandalised in what police described as a "senseless" act.

Dominic Raab has said that criminal gangs are "actively targeting" both national and international organisations responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A woman has been arrested for suspected murder after a reported stabbing outside a shop in South Wales left an elderly man dead and several others injured.

Italy has already taken its first steps towards easing lockdown restrictions and now the country has revealed how restaurants could look once they re-open.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will today celebrate the first birthday of their son Archie while under lockdown in the US.

A man has died after being attacked by a water buffalo in Wales, police say.

Hundreds of O2 and Vodafone customers have reported problems with the networks.

The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of coronavirus, then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist has alleged in a whistleblower complaint.

A man has told how he pulled his young daughter to safety before a "horrific" crash that left his husband trapped between two vehicles in north London.

A key figure of Columbia Road flower market and a campaigning businessman dubbed "Mr Highbury" are among the latest victims whose deaths show how coronavirus is tearing through London's communities.

Two Londoners who celebrated the end of the Second World War 75 years ago with street parties have urged the country to "clap and sing" on VE Day.

Main roads and town centres across London are to be rapidly transformed to create safe space for a massive increase in pedestrians and cyclists, City Hall announced today.

Tomorrow night a rare "Super Flower Moon" will light up the UK's night skies.

The top scientist, Professor Neil Ferguson, whose research aided Boris Johnson's decision to impose a lockdown, has resigned after reportedly allowing a woman to visit his home in an "error of judgment".

At least nine people have been killed and hundreds were rushed to hospital after a chemical gas leak in southern India.

Grimes and her boyfriend Elon Musk want to call their newborn son X Æ A-12 Musk, but California law might prevent it.

A new project capturing the stories of veterans has been unveiled by Poppyscotland for the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

The Government has cautioned the public against overexcitement at the prospect of the coronavirus lockdown being eased.

The sister of a man whose body was found dumped in woodland launched an appeal today on the first anniversary of his disappearance to catch the "monsters" who killed him.

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Two young children had their throats cut during an attack by their father at the family home in east London, an inquest has heard.

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Today's extraordinary projections of the course of the economy over the rest of the year from the Bank of England are, bizarrely, both worse and better than might be feared.

Around 500 people have been forced to flee their homes due to raging wildfires in the Florida Panhandle, authorities have confirmed.

Drug dealers are adopting new disguises so they can move around freeley during the coronavirus lockdown, a gang expert has said.

Nicola Sturgeon has extended the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland by three weeks, insisting that any easing of restrictions could be "very risky".

Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, marked the end of the Second World War in Europe, when Germany surrendered to the Allied armies.

Full-scale tracking and tracing of new coronavirus infections by the end of this month was today made an official Government target.

Low staff numbers and a lack of PPE are among the challenges facing schools as they draw together plans to reopen.

The Government is requesting a refund or replacement for 400,000 medical gowns flown over from Turkey which were later deemed "unusable".