First Bus have released timetables for the next few weeks. Buses are running roughly once an hour. For more information see here
Useful information for employers & the self-employed. MDC have provided an outline of the support available for businesses & the self-employed in light of Coronavirus and the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce have pulled it all together on one page on their website.
National
With warm weather forecast this weekend, in a moving moment during the daily news conference the chief nurse Ruth May pleaded with people to remember Aimee O’Rourke and Areema Nasreen, two nurses who died after contracting Covid-19. “Please stay at home, for them”.
The health secretary Matt Hancock issued a call for more volunteers to take part in “essential” clinical trials. He said the bigger the trials, the greater the data, the faster treatments can be rolled out.
UK hospital deaths saw a record daily rise of 684, bringing the total to 3,605 patients who have died after testing positive for Covid-19.
The NHS Nightingale Hospital in London was opened by the health secretary and the Prince of Wales (via video link). In addition to ones in Birmingham and Manchester, two more temporary hospitals were announced in Bristol and Harrogate.
The Welsh government is to make it a legal obligation for companies to ensure employees stay 2 metres apart. The law will come into effect on either Monday or Tuesday next week.
The Premier League will ask footballers to take a 30% wage cut and it is committing £20m to the NHS and £125m to lower leagues. It also confirmed the league would not resume at the end of May.
Confirmed cases among inmates rose by 20% in the last 24 hours to 88 across 29 prisons in England and Wales.
The prime minister Boris Johnson remained in self-isolation as he continued to have a high temperature.
Road travel fell to levels not seen since 1955 as all forms of travel plunged in urban areas.
The exam regulator unveiled plans for how GCSE and A-level students will get their grades: a combination of teacher assessment, class rank and school performance will determine grades.
And finally, the Queen has recorded a special coronavirus broadcast, which will be aired on Sunday. It will be only the fourth time she has issued a televised address to the nation in troubled periods.
First Bus have released timetables for the next few weeks. Buses are running roughly once an hour. For more information see here