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GB NEWS 24 DESK// A Romanian lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to smuggle people out of the UK, report The Sun and birminghammail.co.uk. The 37-year-old was arrested at the Port of Dover on Thursday afternoon…

GBNEWS24 DESK// LONDON, Oct 1: British factory activity grew for a fourth month in a row in September, though more slowly than in August, and the sector cut the fewest jobs since before the COVID-19 lockdown, a survey showed on…

GB NEWS 24 DESK// The European Union on Thursday launched a legal case against Britain over its new Internal Market Bill that undercuts London’s earlier legal commitments under its Brexit divorce treaty, the head of the bloc’s executive…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Britain reported 7,143 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest single figure to date, and 71 deaths, the biggest toll since July. Lockdown measures are being imposed across the country as the government tries to…

GB NEWS 24 DESK// A British police officer has been shot dead by a man who was being detained at a custody centre in south London in the early hours of Friday. Police said the incident occurred while a man was being detained…

GB NEWS 24 DESK// Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her family are facing a 35 million pound ($45 million) hit from the coronavirus pandemic, partly due to a shortage of tourists, the monarch’s money-manager said Friday, reports AP.…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The UK could be the first country in the world to carry out Covid "challenge trials" - where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to test possible vaccines. It is understood the studies - first…

GB NEWS 24 DESK// The government has warned of "tougher measures" if people do not follow the latest coronavirus restrictions. In a television broadcast on Tuesday night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said "we must reserve the right to…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned. Sir Patrick Vallance said that would be expected to lead to about…

GB NEWS 24 DESK// Britain's health minister said on Friday that the novel coronavirus was accelerating across the country, with hospital admissions doubling every eight days, but refused to say whether or not another national…