Tag: Lockdown

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Travel and tourism firm TUI has announced it is cancelling all holidays from the UK until mid-May amid ongoing coronavirus restriction across the country. The news comes as leaders of the devolved nations begin plans to lead the UK out of lockdown. Under current plans, 17 May is being targeted as the earliest possible date for foreign travel …

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TUI is ‘preparing intensively’ for holidays to resume, with the European giant in talks with the key destinations of Greece, Spain and Cyprus. Chief Executive Fritz Joussen predicted customers will be able to travel this summer, and declared there was ‘no doubt’ a vaccination passport would ‘restore freedom to travel’. “Travelling in Europe will be …

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Airlines and travel firms are experiencing a surge in demand following Boris Johnson’s road map for how coronavirus restrictions will be eased. The Prime Minister said on Monday that a Government taskforce will produce a report by April 12 recommending how international trips can resume for people in England. Foreign holidays could be permitted from …

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Consumer watchdog Which? has warned travellers not to book flights until clarity emerges over international travel after revealing more than two million passengers lost money during Covid. The warning came amid research which found people were left out of pocket after missing flights that continued to operate during the pandemic. The watchdog said local Covid …

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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scots are unlikely to be able to travel abroad this summer. She says they might not even be able to take domestic holidays this Easter. While school children will return to the classroom this month, there will be no wider relaxing of lockdown rules she says. In an update …

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Takings are down by a staggering 80% Landlords refusing to cut rents By Andrew Atkinson Many bar and restaurant owners are fearful of closing for...

Mandatory Covid testing will be introduced for everyone arriving in England from 4am on Friday, the Government has confirmed today. All visitors and all residents travelling back to England will need proof of a negative Covid-19 test taken no more than three days before departure. The Department for Transport (DfT) said the test must be …

National lockdowns in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make it illegal for anybody to undertake non-essential travel. Yet, British Airways and Ryanair continue to refuse to offer refunds for passengers who would have to break the law to take their flight. When asked the UK’s five biggest airlines if passengers in England, Scotland, Wales …

The General Director of Public Health in Murcia, José Carlos Vicente, announced at a press conference held by the Covid-19 Monitoring Committee meeting, that...

BY LISA JONES I came ‘home’ for just a few weeks, it was never meant to turn into 5 months here.  My travel plans were...

A video shows the state of the pub area this weekend and causes outrage on social media A number of shocking images have emerged today...

Maisie May Carey and brothers Jac and Conor Bentley didn’t spend Lockdown in their Bedrooms moaning, watching television and playing videogames.  Instead they used...

The Ministry of Health has authorised the 14 health departments that remained at phase zero of the de-escalation plan to move to phase 1...

Mojácar’s weekly Wednesday market has returned to the Pueblo’s Plaza del Rey Alabez, with strict adherence to government guidelines and security measures, although for...

Social distancing has put plenty of sports on hold. Playing outside sports games has become a problem. Local, federal, and state governments have implemented...

Pilar de la Horadada council, has identified three access routes to the sea, so that professional athletes, high-level qualified athletes, and other federated athletes...

According to the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, only 20% of local businesses entitled to do so re-opened their doors on Monday within phase...

Better not to open than open to go bankrupt "For Rent". The notice that, on Friday, was hung symbolically on the doors and windows...

Quote: ‘The reason scientists didn’t want us to move earlier is because once you go into lockdown, the resilience and people’s willingness to stay in lockdown and the economic consequences, mean there is only a certain amount of time that you can hold that in place’. In a special report ANDREW  ATKINSON looks at the […]

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As almost six million children were able to leave their homes for the first time in 42 people took to social media to express...

So, (have you noticed how many sentences begin with the word ‘so’ these days?) how yawl doin’? I’m doing time – even though I am...

Torrevieja Civil Guard has detained a man of Romanian nationality who had previously been warned by local police on three occasions, for breaking the...

Children may venture out, under supervision, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. with bikes and scooters but without access to parks. Following days of...

Parent may take out up to 3 children for up to an hour Although the conditions are still being debated by the Spanish government...

At a press conference held mid-morning on Tuesday the government announced that children would be able to leave their homes from Sunday 26 April,...

'Germany hopes to combine the lifting of restrictions with a more efficient tracing of the spread of Covid-19, by increasing testing and aiming...

State of alarm to be extended to 9 May Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, announced in a live TV broadcast on Saturday night that he...

By Andrew Atkinson The Civil Guard have posted photographs of people in Guardamar beach areas - surfing and sunbathing - during the strict no go...

By Percy Chattey The Hondon Valley, this gem of inaudibility nestling amongst the Mountains about an hour’s drive from the Costa Blanca coast. About two...