Summary

  • Updates on 9 April

  1. Esterhuizen and Obano given big banspublished at 16:52 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Harlequins centre Andre Esterhuizen is suspended for six weeks, while Bath prop Beno Obano gets a five-week ban.

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  2. Five Boris Johnson claims fact-checkedpublished at 16:34 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Investigating claims about flat renovations, vaccines and misleading statements.

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  3. Pleasure and Escapepublished at 16:26 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Having examined the sea as a source of exploration, defence and trade, David Dimbleby explores how it emerged as a source of pleasure, Punch and Judy and sand sculpture.

    Starting at Gorleston-on-Sea, David explores the creation of a seaside holiday culture that remains uniquely British to this day.

    Sailing down the Suffolk and Essex coasts and into the Thames, David also shows how the sea became an irresistible subject for our most celebrated artists and architects, before finally docking in the very heart of British maritime power - Greenwich.

  4. Johnson appoints new standards adviserpublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Lord Geidt - the Queen's former private secretary - is to examine the Downing Street flat controversy.

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  5. Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsleypublished at 16:06 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz. Using the same style as Lucy's film about the Suffragettes, the film shows their remarkable resilience, as well as the terrible suffering they endured, shining a light on the role of the front-line workers and volunteers at the heart of it all.

    The six lives at the heart of the film are 17-year-old Jewish shopgirl Nina Masel, from Essex, who reported for Mass Observation; Frances Faviell, a Chelsea artist and socialite who received just a week’s training to become an auxiliary nurse and would end up treating a dying victim in a bomb crater; Ita Ekpenyon, a Nigerian teacher who moved to the UK to study law but who took on the role of an air-raid precaution warden to rally the people of his central London patch; Barbara Nixon, an out-of-work actress who worked long hours as an ARP warden, expressing her outrage at judgemental attitudes towards East Enders who had lost everything; Frank Hurd, a full-time fireman whose day job was to keep the raging fires of the bombing raids under control; and Robert Barltrop, too young to enlist, who worked as a porter in a Sainsbury's warehouse and volunteered as a firewatcher.

  6. PM denies his government diverted Welsh Covid testspublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    A health boss had claimed his government "clearly prioritised" Covid tests for England in March 2020.

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  7. Two Met officers charged over crime scene photospublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found dead in a park in Wembley last June.

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  8. PM: I didn't make 'bodies pile high' remarkpublished at 14:29 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Boris Johnson comes under fire over comments he made last autumn, during Prime Minister's Questions.

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  9. PM on 'appalling' Post Office software scandalpublished at 14:00 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    The jailing of Post Office staff after software problems is “one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in our history”, Boris Johnson says.

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  10. What are the rules governing political donations?published at 13:53 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Boris Johnson is under mounting pressure over the funding of his Downing Street flat renovations.

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  11. Who 'initially' paid for Downing Street flat refurb?published at 13:42 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    The Labour leader wants to know who first paid for work on the Downing Street flat.

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  12. Starmer asks PM to chose multiple choice answerpublished at 13:09 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Sir Keir Starmer demands to know who made the initial payment to settle the bill for the prime minister's Downing Street flat redecoration.

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  13. Blackford asks Johnson: Are you a liar, PM?published at 12:59 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    The SNP's Westminster leader asks the prime minister about alleged comments he made late last year.

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  14. Sir Ed Davey: Boris Johnson is a serial liarpublished at 11:42 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    The LIb Dem leader says the prime minister should resign over alleged comments about the Covid death toll.

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  15. PMQs: As it happenedpublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer clashed at PMQs over the renovation of the PM's flat and other issues.

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  16. Florence Nightingale Museum to partially reopenpublished at 11:02 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Florence Nightingale museumImage source, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MUSEUM

    The Florence Nightingale Museum is to partially reopen with a series of open weekends throughout the rest of the year.

    The institution, based on the site of St Thomas' Hospital, previously announced it had closed for the foreseeable future due to the financial effects of the pandemic.

    Museum bosses said emergency funding from the Culture Recovery Fund meant it would now have a limited reopening with open weekends on the first full weekend of every month from June.

    The museum's director David Green said: "We are extremely pleased to be opening our doors again, if only for a limited time.

    "These will be very special, now-rare, opportunities to explore the life of the woman whose name has been used so much over the past year and whose legacy shines through the remarkable work of the health care professionals that have been fighting the pandemic."

  17. Teenage stab victim's brother was also killedpublished at 10:45 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Junior Jah's death takes the number of teenagers to die in knife attacks in London this year to 12.

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  18. High Court to look at PM's Patel 'bullying' decisionpublished at 10:09 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Boris Johnson kept the home secretary in post, saying she had not broken Whitehall's rules.

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  19. Exhibitions extended for Museum of London reopeningpublished at 09:47 British Summer Time 28 April 2021

    Museum of LondonImage source, Museum of London

    The Museum of London and the Museum of London Docklands are to reopen on 19 May, it has been announced.

    Exhibitions at the two sites have been extended. Dub London: Bassline of a City, external will run until 5 September, Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery, external will be extended until 22 August and The Krios of Sierra Leone, external will be open until 4 July.

    Both museums will be free to enter but tickets for timed entry have to be booked in advance.

    Sharon Ament, director of the Museum of London, said "our teams have been busy behind the scenes readying our sites to safely welcome our visitors once again".

    "From Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery at the Museum of London Docklands to Dub London: Bassline of a City at the Museum of London this will most certainly be the summer to visit us and we cannot wait to welcome everyone who does. It has been too long!” she said.