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One in 10 Britons has signed up to a subscription service during lockdown, with companies offering regular deliveries of food and drink reporting a huge spike in the customer numbers. Companies offering gin, cheese and coffee subscriptions have all reported big increases in customer numbers, as consumers unable to get …

Exhibition of the week Jon Rafman: Nine Eyes of Google Street ViewImages appropriated from Google Street View give an eerily intimate and creepily intrusive vision of life on Earth.• Sprüth Magers online until 25 July. Also showing Annie Leibovitz Photographs of a still, silent quarantine experience that are being sold …

New “walk-through” coronavirus testing centres will help in the battle against the pandemic, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has insisted after sustained opposition criticism of the government’s stance. Hancock said that six new testing centres would be available in England offering appointments to people without cars. The move comes after …

Royal Mail has reintroduced Saturday deliveries after more than a month of temporarily stopping them. Due to the impact coronavirus had on the company, the postal service reduced its days of delivery during the week from six to five. This was mainly because of staff shortages and an increase in …

Retailer Boots is launching free drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing centres – with one of the first opening at Chessington World of Adventures – to support the Government’s plan to test NHS workers showing symptoms of the virus. The UK Government says it has launched “a new drive on coronavirus tests …

Royal Mail has warned it may have to cut back on postal services as increasing numbers of its staff take sick leave. The company, which provides letter and parcel delivery services to 30m homes and businesses, said it had taken measures to limit contact in the workplace and with customers …

Postal workers have called on Royal Mail and e-commerce sites to limit the amount of non-essential items they are being asked to deliver at a time when they are risking their health by turning up to work. Despite the UK government’s closure of non-essential retail outlets, e-commerce companies can continue …

A man who died after climbing to the top of one of the country’s tallest chimneys, was suffering a “mid-life crisis” after disclosing abuse he had suffered as a child, his estranged wife has told an inquest. Cemetery worker, Phil Longcake, 53, died in October after scaling the 290ft Dixon’s …

The coronavirus outbreak has sent the UK into lockdown. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has closed pubs, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, gyms, theatres, cinemas and schools, and asked members of the public to start working from home “where they possibly can”. Dozens of stations on the London Underground network have also closed in …

Online retail giant Amazon is stopping sellers from sending non-essential items to its UK and US warehouses until 5 April, to make space for vital items needed by its customers during the coronavirus outbreak. Amazon wrote to its third-party sellers, some of whom use the company’s logistics to store and …