Darshna Soni , Communities Editor
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What it’s like inside lockdown classrooms
There are reports of crammed classrooms and head teachers ‘rationing places’ because too many parents in England are sending their children to school.
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Families turning to charity for help with computers
Many families will be desperate for any help now, as parents and children are having to share devices
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UK inequalities exposed by Covid death toll, says report
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in our society, and multiplied the suffering of some of our most deprived communities.
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NHS chiefs warn against mixing at Christmas, how careful do the UK public plan to be?
NHS chiefs have warned that people must think “really carefully” about mixing this Christmas – Darshna Soni is in Notingham to find out how cautious people plan to be.
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New ‘Test and Dine’ proposal offers lifeline to Birmingham restaurants
67 local authorities currently under England’s strictest measures will start enhanced community testing support programmes.
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Windrush compensation scheme architect voices frustration at implementation as victims say scheme is too complicated
The architect of the Windrush compensation scheme has voiced his frustration at how some aspects of it are being implemented.
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Family of Shukri Abdi speak of their grief as coroner rules schoolgirl’s death was an accident
In June last year, as a heatwave swept the country, a 12-year-old girl drowned in a river in Bury, Greater Manchester.
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How Leicester has struggled after 150 days of Covid restrictions
Northern Ireland will enter a circuit-breaker for a fortnight starting tomorrow. In Leicester, they know more than most about the strains of lockdown. It’s more than 150 days since local restrictions were imposed on the city’s residents and they have been living with some form of enhanced measures ever since. And today they learned they…
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Home Office broke equality law over treatment of Windrush generation, watchdog says
The Home Office broke equality law in the way it treated the Windrush generation, according to the equalities watchdog.
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Boy, 10, becomes one of UK’s youngest Covid victims
Fehzan Jamil from Bradford was laid to rest yesterday after contracting the virus.
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Hull appeals for military support as Covid infection rate remains highest in the UK
The city of Hull is struggling with the worst infection rate in the UK and council leaders have appealed for military support.
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Black and Asian people at greater risk of catching Covid-19, scientists say
It’s yet another inequality amongst the victims of coronavirus.
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Education impact of pandemic revealed – some children have forgotten how to use knife and fork
The pandemic has upended all our lives, but perhaps the most significant impact has been seen on children, with some young children going back to wearing nappies, or forgetting how to eat with a knife and fork. These worrying trends are revealed today in reports published by the education watchdog, Ofsted, which look at what…
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Manchester university forced to apologise and remove campus fences after student protests
Manchester University has apologised and promised an inquiry after protesting students pulled down security fences that had been put up round halls of residence as the lockdown began. The university said the fences were to help avoid the “mixing of households”. But students say that their anxiety levels are bad enough as a result of…
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Lockdown ‘real body blow’ for hospitality and retail, say businesses
Businesses have warned that a second national lockdown for England is a “real body blow”.
