Oxford Street to get cycle lanes and more space for shoppers to aid recovery

Cycle lanes are to be installed in Oxford Street and its pavements will be widened to help the West End economy bounce back from coronavirus.more

No feasibility study has yet been commissioned on the idea of a bridge linking Scotland and Northern Ireland.more

A 24-year-old Polish man Wiktor Konrad Karasek has been missing 2nd of May 2020. He was living in London.more

The new Madeleine McCann suspect was unmasked last night as it emerged he had been on the police radar for more than two decades - and he could be let out of jail on parole within days.more

Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, its boss has told the BBC.more

Face coverings are to become compulsory for people using public transport in England from Monday 15 June.more

A further 176 people with Covid-19 have died in the UK, taking the coronavirus death toll across the four nations to 39,904.more

Thousands of primary schools in England have defied the government’s call for schools to reopen amid concerns that coronavirus is still too prevalent to do so.more

Boris Johnson has said he wants to reduce the 2-metre rule for physical distancing despite the government’s chief medical officer saying it would need to stay in place for the whole epidemic.more

Transport for London are expected to announce that the Night Tube will be suspended until March 2021 as soon as today.more

Pockets of protesters clashed with police after thousands of people flooded into central London for a Black Lives Matter demonstration in response to the death of George Floyd.more

One in five Brits are now following lockdown rules less strictly than before – and a third of those people say Dominic Cummings behaviour is a factor in that change. more

A suspect being investigated in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been locally identified as Christian Brueckner, according to reports, as German officials reveal the case is being treated as a murder.more

Scientists are running a trial to see if ibuprofen can help hospital patients who are sick with coronavirus.more

Today nominations for the British Academy Television Awards, BAFTA Television Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have been announced. The production of HBO and Sky stations - "Chernobyl" became the king of the hunt. The series about the reactor disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was nominated in 14 categories.more

A father has today appeared in court charged with double with murder after his wife and 18-year-old daughter were found with their throats cut. more

Bus drivers have suffered at least 60 cases of being spat at since lockdown began, London’s transport chief revealed. more

The government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there could be 8,000 new cases of Covid-19 a day in the UK. more

Shoppers have seen the price of goods tumble further as clothing and furniture retailers increased discounts to pull in customers and offset the impact of coronavirus, data has showed.more

Andrew Bailey held a conference call on Tuesday with Britain’s biggest lenders in which he emphasised that they needed to step up their plans for Britain failing to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU before a deadline at the end of 2020, Sky News reported.more

Thousands of activists have gathered in Trafalgar Square, outside the Houses of Parliament and by the US embassy to protest the death of George Floyd in the US, as well as acts of police brutality in the UK.more

Water companies are urging people to use water more carefully during the coronavirus lockdown.more

Global Drug Survey finds big rises in binge drinking and poor health during lockdown.more

The United Kingdom will not walk away from the people of Hong Kong if China imposes a national security law which conflicts with Beijing’s international obligations under a 1984 accord, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.more

People from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus, a report by Public Health England says.more

People in Britain are being urged to 'take the knee' on their doorsteps on Wednesday in a show of solidarity with activists in the United States.more

EasyJet says it hopes to resume flights on 75% of its route network by the end of August, although the number of daily services will still be significantly down for a normal summer season.more

Overall, a total of 4,615,146 tests have been carried out and 277,985 cases have been confirmed positive. more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly spending £7,000 a day on security while they stay in Los Angeles. The royal couple are understood to be living in producer Tyler Perry’s mansion in the Californian city, where they arrived shortly before the border between Canada and the US closed to slow the spread of coronavirus.more

Concerns have been raised that routine dentistry such as fillings will not be available to patients until next year.more

Some 300,000 more UK workers have been furloughed in the past week, raising the total to 8.7 million since the start of the coronavirus crisis.more

About 62,000 have died since the start of the coronavirus epidemic in Great Britain. people more than the average for this period of the last five years, of which Covid-19 was the cause of about 48,000 from these deaths - according to data from the ONS statistical office published on Tuesday.more

The majority of Britons want the economy to be "significantly" different after the pandemic passes, according to a poll for Sky News.more

Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.more

The British government faced a wave of mockery in connection with the coronavirus ban on staying at home the night before, which some tabloids called a ban on sex by non-residents.more

House prices fell 1.7% in May from the previous month, the largest monthly fall for 11 years, according to the Nationwide.more

The government is looking at ways to relax the 14-day quarantine rule for people entering the UK over the coming months, BBC Newsnight has learnt.more

Police in England can tell people to leave someone’s home if they are breaching new lockdown rules but cannot make them go, according to guidance issued to forces.more

The UK has recorded a total of 39,045 coronavirus-related deaths since the beginning of the outbreak, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced - confirming the lowest 24 hour increase in fatalities relating to the virus since lockdown measures were implemented.more

Scotland's coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if "even a minority" continue to flout them, Nicola Sturgeon has said. more

A Polish father living in the UK for over 15 years has been forced to turn to his Perthshire community and raise nearly £2,000 for citizenship fees amid the coronavirus pandemic.more

More people in London are working from home during lockdown than in any other part of the country, official figures reveal today. Londoners are also the least likely to have checked on their neighbours and the least aware of the Government’s “stay at home” order during the pandemic.more

Along with the wider easing of coronavirus restrictions, the Government has also updated the guidance for those shielding, allowing some of the nation’s most vulnerable to cautiously emerge from their homes for the first time in 10 weeks.more

Primark is planning to reopen all of its 153 stores in England on 15 June when lockdown restrictions are lifted, its owner AB Foods has said.more