Thousands defy social distancing rules to cram onto English beaches amid hot weather
Police around the southern English coastal town of Bournemouth urged people to stay away as thousands defied social distancing guidelines and flocked to local beaches on what has been the U.K.’s hottest day of the year so far.
English town mourns victims of suspected terror attack
The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker.
U.K.’s Boris Johnson creates anti-racism panel, but critics want more
Writing in Monday's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Johnson said the body would look at “all aspects of inequality — in employment, in health outcomes, in academic and all other walks of life.”…
U.K. drops plan to get all young children in school by summer
The British government has abandoned plans to have all younger children return to school in England before the summer holidays following concerns raised by principals that they could not meet coronavirus-related social distancing requirements.
We close the week with an uplifting tale from the United Kingdom. Amid shortages of essential supplies during the coronavirus era, a picturesque water mill of the medieval period has been pressed back into service -- to provide bakers and…
The scarecrows, of all shapes and sizes and made by adults and children alike, stand like cheerful guards, showing their appreciation to members of the National Health Service.
The British government has replaced its “stay at home” coronavirus slogan with a new “stay alert” message, a move that has met with widespread criticism ahead of a speech Sunday in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lay out the…
The three-minute video was posted Wednesday on the Instagram accounts of Save With Stories and Save the Children U.K.
Newly released data show that the United Kingdom has Europe’s highest COVID-19 death toll: at least 32,000, second globally only to the United States. But people of color there are being both infected and killed at higher rates than are…
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