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What could turn out to be a very big development is reported on the front page of the Times on the progress that is being made towards developing a vaccine. The prediction on the timings comes from Oxford University’s Professor Sarah Gilbert, who told the paper that she was “80 per cent confident” this could be achieved. The Times report goes on: “The government signalled that it would be willing to fund the manufacture of millions of doses in advance if…

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One of the features of the current lockdown is just how thoughtful and generous people are. Shopping is a massive challenge for us at the moment because it is almost impossible to get delivery slots from the supermarket and we cannot countenance the risk of going ourselves Then while we were pondering this neighbours pushed a note through the door saying they’d managed to get a Tesco click and collect slot for tomorrow and could they get things for us….

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More polling like this will add to pressures on ministers The Standard is reporting a new study by Kings College London and Ipsos-MORI on how the public is coping with the lockdown restrictions. Overall there was strong, 89%, backing but a number of possible health issues were highlighted. In particular the study found: 49% said they were more anxious and depressed 38% said they were having less sleep 35% said they were eating more or less healthy food than normal…

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Normally the Thursday afternoon and evening before Good Friday is just about the busiest it gets on the roads during the year. Huge traffic jams build up on the roads and it can be mighty frustrating. Well today has been different. Everything is so different this year. Bring back the bank holiday traffic jams. Mike Smithson

I don’t know about other Pbers but on my permitted daily exercise bike ride there has been a noticeable increase in road traffic with people going to parks ans other open spaces simply to get out of the house. My sense is that there is just a level of easing taking place and that’s going to be exacerbated by continued good weather and the Easter Weekend. This is one of those things that is very difficult to police but that…

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63% of Brits support a national unity government for the duration of the #covid19 crisis – including a majority (54%) of Conservative voters https://t.co/rSTOdNTVxP https://t.co/5iT8aOkAai — YouGov (@YouGov) April 8, 2020 This latest polling which was published overnight is really quite remarkable and shows the impact of two things; the growing crisis and sense of helplessness as the lockdown looks set to go on and on and secondly how the political world has changed with Sir Kier Starmer now being…

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