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There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS’ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive horseracing committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS’ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive horseracing committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse … Read more
A consultant working in intensive care has described the decision to let two Stereophonics gigs go ahead at the start of the coronavirus outbreak as ‘downright insane’. David Hepburn, who made the comment on Twitter, works at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport – which has seen one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in … Read more
Ministers are using mantra of ‘following the science’ as a defence to answer difficult questions about the coronavirus, Professor Brian Cox today claimed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other Number 10 officials have often remarked in response to the pandemic that they have been guided by the science. ‘The science’ Professor Cox referred to is … Read more
Allowing the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead in March could have helped ‘accelerate the spread’ of Covid-19, a former government chief scientific adviser has warned. Sir David King, who advised the government between 2000 and 2007 criticised the decision to allow the National Hunt festival to go ahead which saw a total attendance of some … Read more
Cheltenham landlord, 67, who was pulling pints for masses at horse-racing festival dies from coronavirus after 250,000 were allowed to pack into event despite warnings Alexander Grierson, 67, died in hospital after a two-week battle with coronavirus ‘Boyzie’ ran the bar at The Beehive pub while the Cheltenham festival was on Andrew Parker-Bowles and comedian … Read more
Cheltenham landlord, 67, who was pulling pints for masses at horse-racing festival dies from coronavirus after 250,000 were allowed to pack into event despite warnings Alexander Grierson, 67, died in hospital after a two-week battle with coronavirus ‘Boyzie’ ran the bar at The Beehive pub while the Cheltenham festival was on Andrew Parker-Bowles and comedian … Read more
A leading Oxford professor has blasted the Government’s failure to introduce a lockdown sooner and says it was ‘completely out of step with almost all other European countries’. David Hunter condemned the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ attitude among ministers, while scientists have repeatedly pressed the ‘panic button’. When EU neighbours Spain, the Netherlands, France … Read more
‘Lives were lost because Cheltenham Festival went ahead’: AP McCoy says race organisers ‘followed government advice’ to let 70,000 racegoers attend Gold Cup despite coronavirus fears Sir AP McCoy has admitted that ‘lives have been lost’ because of Cheltenham Retired champion jockey spoke about Festival which took place on March 10-13 Told Good Morning Britain … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more