Government scraps daily Downing Street press conferences

a £1.57 billion support package handed to the arts sector by the government yesterday (July 5).The bailout will provide music venues, independent cinemas, museums, galleries, theatres and heritage sites with emergency grants and loans.The money is the biggest one-off investment in UK culture ever, helping companies, venues and institutions to survive the coronavirus pandemic without going out of business.Announcing the new funds, Boris Johnson said: “From iconic theatre and musicals, mesmerising

Covid-19, which aims to avoid another national lockdown. He explained how the approach would work in five stages, with a local lockdown being implemented only when absolutely necessary.

coronavirus pandemic in the UK have become somewhat a part of our lives. At 5pm Monday to Friday, either the Prime Minister or another senior cabinet member would address the public on how they are handling the outbreak plus take questions from the media.

coronavirus.Today (Tuesday June 23) saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce a further easing of lockdown measures from July 4, allowing for pubs, restaurants, hotels, and more businesses within the leisure industry to re-open as long as social distancing can be maintained.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterUK cinema owners have been lobbying hard for the government to relax its current two-meter social distancing guidelines in time for their re-opening on July 4, and today they are set to hear that their campaign has been successful.PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm that cinemas can re-open on that date in an address to parliament shortly, but crucially he will also outline that the country’s distancing rule will be trimmed to one meter, likely with

Tom Grater International Film ReporterUK cinema owners have been lobbying hard for the UK government to relax its current two-meter social distancing guidelines in time for their re-opening on July 4, and today they are set to hear that their campaign has been successful.PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm that cinemas can re-open on that date in an address to parliament shortly, but crucially he will also outline that the country’s distancing rule will be trimmed to one meter, likely with

Prime Minister that we were only allowed to leave the house for one of few reasons. At the end of April, Boris Johnson said the country was "past the peak" of the coronavirus pandemic and a couple of weeks later unveiled the government's 'road' map to easing the current which began on May 13.

With the region in lockdown, each person will be going through their own individual experience. Freelance writer Mairi Fraser has been taking an irreverent view of isolating with her family at her Bridge of Earn home on her blog - https://mairiscot.wixsite.com/website/blog. The Perthshire Advertiser is also sharing some of her thoughts and experiences as we continue on lockdown for the foreseeable future. This one is called 'So sweat the small stuff'........Recently, I’ve begun to resist the

coronavirus could potentially be relaxed in England first, before the rest of the UK, it emerged today.

coronavirus test which caused a scare last week, took the 5pm press conference.