Watch in full: Boris Johnson press conference on new coronavirus restrictions
Boris Johnson has announced that Greater Manchester is being offered a support package worth just £22 million to go into tier 3 coronavirus restrictions on Friday evening.
An offer of a further £60m in financial support for business in the city put forward by the government earlier in the day appears to have been taken off the table.
Mr Johnson told a Downing Street press conference that he was ready to “consider” support for businesses, but dodged questions about the scale of any package.
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October 20, 2020
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Live: Matt Hancock updates parliament on coronavirus
Health Secretary Matt Hancock addresses parliament on the latest coronavirus restrictions as millions of people across the UK move into tier 3 lockdown measures.
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October 20, 2020
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Boris Johnson announces just £22m support package for Greater Manchester's Tier 3 move
Boris Johnson has sparked fury in Greater Manchester after announcing the city is being offered a support package worth just £22 million to go into tier 3 coronavirus restrictions at midnight on Friday.
An offer of a further £60m in financial support for business in the city put forward by the government earlier in the day has been taken off the table.
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October 20, 2020
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Andy Burnham: Tier 3 verdict for Greater Manchester is 'brutal, disgraceful'
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has accused the government of “playing poker” with people’s lives.
Announcing that Manchester will be moved to Tier 3 restrictions, Boris Johnson said regulations will be put to parliament on Thursday and will come into effect at midnight.
Greater Manchester will receive £22m, he said – significantly less than a reported prior offer of £60m – adding that he “regrets” an agreement was not reached.
During a live reaction to the government's offer, the Mayor called the sum "brutal".
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October 20, 2020
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Greater Manchester will move to Tier 3 restrictions, Boris Johnson announces
Boris Johnson has confirmed Greater Manchester will move to the tier 3 coronavirus alert level at midnight on Friday.
The announcement came minutes after the city's mayor Andy Burnham accused the Government of "walking away" from talks over a financial support package for the region.
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October 20, 2020
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Live: Boris Johnson press conference on new coronavirus restrictions
Boris Johnson is speaking to reporters at Downing Street about the government's next steps over a potential Tier 3 lockdown in Greater Manchester.
The prime minister has spoken with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham following the passing of the deadline for an agreement on further controls in the region.
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October 20, 2020
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Ancient 'Peru cat' found carved into mountain
Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered an enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert of the famed Nazca Lines. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years.
The figure is made up of a long body, striped tail and head with distinctive pointed ears. It emerged during work to improve access to one of the hills that provides a natural vantage point.
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October 20, 2020
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UK exposes Russian cyber attacks against Tokyo Olympics
Britain has accused Russian intelligence of carrying out a series of cyberattacks on the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with security officials warning that the postponed Games due to take place next year may also be targeted.
UK and allied intelligence services discovered that the Russian military intelligence service, GRU, attempted to disguise itself as Chinese and North Korean hackers in “false-flag” operations to disrupt the Games.
The attacks started, according to security officials, in September last year, days before the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) threatened to ban Russian athletes from the Olympics and other major international sporting events.
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October 20, 2020
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Trump says Dr Fauci is a 'very nice man'
Donald Trump has called Dr Anthony Fauci a "very nice man" after labelling America's top infectious disease expert a "disaster" in a leaked campaign call.
The president delivered an off-the-cuff assessment of the widely respected government scientist, telling campaign staffers on a conference call: “Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,”
Mr Trump has accurately noted the senior National Institutes of Health official initially said face-coverings were not necessary, only to later say masks would help slow the spread of the virus.
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October 20, 2020
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Coronavirus may never fully disappear even with a vaccine, says Patrick Vallance
It is "unlikely" that a coronavirus vaccine will be able to completely stop the spread of infection, the government's chief scientific advisor has warned, adding that the disease may well become endemic in the global population – much like influenza.
Sir Patrick Vallance told a select committee on national security that the UK government would likely need to manage Covid-19 on a year-by-year basis in the same way as flu.
He insisted that the strategy of attempting to eradicate the disease, which has been adopted in countries such as New Zealand and Australia, was “not right because it’ll come back”.
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October 20, 2020
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Ireland to be placed in second lockdown
Ireland will enter a second lockdown in a bid to limit the spread of coronavirus, says the country's premier Micheál Martin.
The Irish Government has agreed to impose the highest level of restrictions under its five-tiered plan for living with Covid-19 from midnight on Wednesday for six weeks.
In doing so, the country will adopt one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe.
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October 19, 2020
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Highlights from Trump's Arizona rallies
President Donald Trump spent Monday in Arizona, with campaign pit stops in Prescott and Tucson.
At his first rally, Trump blasted CNN and made controversial comments about his hypothetical ability to sway large energy companies, like Exxon Mobil, into funding his campaign.
At the second, the president downplayed the Covid-19 pandemic, while Arizona's governor appeared to mock Joe Biden's stutter.
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October 19, 2020
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Trump says he could trade government favours for $25m ExxonMobil campaign donation
Donald Trump told supporters that he could theoretically fundraise by calling on the head of energy company ExxonMobil; he suggested trading government permits for campaign donations.
Federal law prohibits such quid pro quos.
The president also claimed he could raise $1bn a day if he "wanted to" when speaking at a rally in Prescott, Arizona.
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October 19, 2020
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Donald Trump says the American people are 'pandemic'ed out'
The president declared that America is "rounding the turn on coronavirus'", when speaking at a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona on Monday.
Mr Trump said that people are "pandemic'ed out" and praised Arizona's governor, Republican Doug Ducey, for the state's limited Covid-19 restrictions.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch again: Donald Trump campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona
Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona on Monday with just over two weeks left of voting before the presidential election.
It was the president's second rally of the day in the south-western state.
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October 19, 2020
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Live: Donald Trump campaign rally in Arizona
Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona on Monday with just over two weeks left of voting before the presidential election.
It's the president's second rally of the day in the south-western state.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch again: Donald Trump campaign rally in Arizona
Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona on Monday with just over two weeks left of voting before the presidential election.
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October 19, 2020
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Live: Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Arizona
Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona on Monday with just over two weeks left of voting before the presidential election.
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October 19, 2020
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‘You dumb bastards’: Trump lays into CNN over amount of coronavirus coverage
Donald Trump revved up a rally crowd in battleground Arizona by declaring CNN hosts "dumb bastards" for the amount of coronavirus coverage on the cable network.
He opened his first of two Monday campaign events in the state by declaring, as he reportedly did on a call with campaign staff earlier, the American people are "over" the virus – even as it spreads anew in most states.
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October 19, 2020
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‘This virus is on the offensive’: Matt Hancock confirms Covid deaths doubled in last 12 days
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today voiced concern about the number of older people contracting coronavirus in the north west of England, admitting the infection rate has doubled in the last 12 days.
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October 19, 2020
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