Archive for 2020
Bruce Castle Museum awarded £40K grant to boost digital offerings
Bruce Castle Museum & Archive has received a grant of £40,000 from the Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine programme to deliver a new project, #Unlocking the Castle: The Key to a Digital Future.
The project will use innovative approaches to …
Cyprus authorities confirm 248 COVID-19 cases from PCR tests, 104 cases from rapid tests
Cyprus authorities confirmed on Saturday 248 COVID-19 cases through PCR tests, while another 104 cases were found positive through antigen rapid tests. From the 248 cases, 69 were found positive through rapid tests in the past days and were confirmed …
Cyprus COVID-19 cases need to drop to 100-150 per day for measures to be eased
Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology at the Medical School of the University of Cyprus, Petros Karayiannis, has told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) that measures aiming to curb the spread of COVID-19 cannot be eased from one day to the other …
Cyprus Police book 59 citizens and 4 premises for violating measures against COVID-19
Cyprus Police carried out 2,557 checks during the last 24 hours, in the framework of the campaign for the implementation of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, booking 59 citizens and four premises.
Citizens were reported for violating movement …
COVID-19 cases in Cyprus increase between 11-24 November, according to National Report
A total of 2,817 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Cyprus in the last 14 days (11-24 November), out of 69,252 tests that have been performed, according to the National Report released Friday by the Ministry of Health.
Although the mortality …
Greeks in Erdogan’s sights
From the beginning of the year, when Greece blocked Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attempt to blackmail Europe with the mass movement of migrants, Turkey has been trying, with increasing persistence, to “isolate” Greece from its European Union partners.
At first, Turkish …
Record 121 deaths from coronavirus in Greece
There were also 1,747 new cases raising the total of confirmed cases to 103,034.
The northern city of Thessaloniki again had the most cases (486), followed by the Attica capital region with 273 and the former Pieria prefecture, just south …
House fire Walthamstow
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at a house on Elmsdale Road in Walthamstow.
A storage cupboard in a loft conversion at a two-storey terraced house was destroyed by the fire. Firefighters assisted one …
More than 150 arrests made during protest in central London
The Met has made 155 arrests while policing a number of demonstrations in central London today, Saturday 28 November.
Those arrests were for offences including breaching coronavirus regulations, assaulting a police officer and possession of drugs.
Officers made a number …
Premier League
Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw at Brighton after conceding a VAR-inspired stoppage-time penalty while Riyad Mahrez scored a hat-trick in Manchester City’s 5-0 crushing of Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday.Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton suffered their fourth defeat …
