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Nightingale hospitals in London and across England have been ‘reactivated’ to be ready to admit patients as the capital’s NHS facilities struggle under the pressure of a new wave of coronavirus cases.  The Excel centre site has been readied after laying deserted for months as Britain yesterday recorded 981 Covid …

B ritons should brace for a bitterly cold end to 2020 as icy showers and widespread frost sweep the UK. Temperatures could plunge below -5C in the glens of Scotland overnight, with rain, sleet and snow flurries making their way south throughout New Year’s Eve, the Met Office said. A …

Notorious British traitor George Blake has died aged 98 half a century after he claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War, Russian foreign intelligence announced today.  The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs …

L ONDON has been hit with nearly 60,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in a week, official figures reveal today. As the crisis escalates, more than 1,100 coronavirus patients were admitted to London hospitals in just three days to December 19. Some hospitals including St George’s in Tooting, south west London, …

London stocks were set to fall at the open on Friday as investors continue to eye Brexit talks. The FTSE 100 was called to open 26 points lower at 6,525. CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson said: “Asia markets have finished the week slightly on the back foot, after the Bank …

China’s plans to build a huge embassy at a historic site in central London has sparked fears it could unearth thousands of bodies of bubonic plague victims. The People’s Republic of China wants to use the former Royal Mint, which sits opposite the Tower of London, as its new embassy …

Albert Finney left £100,000 from his £400,000 estate to NHS cancer hospital the Royal Marsden where he was cared for before he died aged 82, documents reveal The five-times Oscar nominee bequeathed a £402,743 estate after he died  The Hollywood star passed away after a chest infection in February last year …

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told Christmas shoppers to keep off public transport and wear face masks at all times as they splurge £1.7billion on the high street ‘before the capital plunges into Tier 3’.  More than £3million is expected to be spent every minute over the nine hours of …

Prince Andrew’s Pizza Express ‘alibi’ is in tatters following a bombshell Daily Mail investigation. In the first instalment of an exclusive four-part series we can reveal astonishing details about the day he is alleged to have slept with his teenage sex accuser Virginia Roberts. She says she was trafficked to …

Britons flocked to the High Street after for the first weekend following the lifting of the nationwide lockdown – but footfall remained lower than pre-pandemic levels.  The number of shoppers out this weekend was down 30% on the same period in 2019.   Crowds keen for a Christmas bargain flocked to …