Teddy’s mum, Beth, says he started learning from educational programmes during lockdown.
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Boris Johnson ‘joked he was at most unsocially distanced party in UK’ during No 10 lockdown party | Politics News
Boris Johnson joked he was at “the most unsocially distanced party in the UK” while attending an alcohol-fuelled Number 10
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Glaucoma sufferer learned Braille in lockdown after losing sight
Dawn Hopper was diagnosed with glaucoma three years ago and says learning Braille was a lifeline. Read more BBC News
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Research shows working from home during lockdown may have impacted health behaviors
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and
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Sheffield DJ's lockdown chart challenge keeps spinning
Jason, known as DJ Doveboy, is hoping to play every single chart record since 1952. Read more BBC News Now
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False climate lockdown claims in Oxford lead to death threats
After false claims of a “climate lockdown” in Oxford spread online, councillors receive death threats. Read more BBC News Now
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China eases Covid quarantine and lockdown measures
Officials say people with asymptomatic or mild cases will no longer have to go to quarantine centres. Read more BBC
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How lockdown changed Scotland’s high streets
This is a comprehensive, location-based directory of all public and privately-owned businesses, education and leisure services in England, Scotland and
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Glasgow Airport passengers evacuated amid police lockdown
Passengers have been evacuated from Glasgow Airport after security staff discovered a suspicious item in luggage. Police were called to
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China Covid: Unrest continues in Guangzhou as lockdown anger grows
The latest unrest follows a wave of protest in China over the weekend, triggered by a fire in a high-rise
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New York’s COVID lockdown did not lead to a rush on opioid prescriptions, says study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain While some feared that New Yorkers would refill prescriptions to stockpile opioid medications in the early
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Protests against harsh lockdown rules intensify in China as UK journalist ‘beaten and kicked by police’ covering unrest | World News
Protests against stringent COVID restrictions have intensified across China – as a British journalist was seen being beaten and kicked
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Uganda extends Ebola lockdown in two hotspots
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Uganda’s president extended a six-week lockdown Saturday on two districts at the epicenter of an an
Read more‘End the lockdown’: Protests in China after 10 killed in apartment block fire during strict COVID restrictions | World News
Huge protests have broken out in China’s Xinjiang province after 10 people were killed in an apartment building fire amid
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China Xinjiang: Urumqi rocked by Covid lockdown protests after deadly fire
Urumqi residents confronted officials amid claims Covid restrictions stopped people escaping a blaze. Read more BBC News Now retrieving an
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COVID-19: Beijing is essentially in lockdown but authorities won’t use that word | World News
In Beijing, business after business is bolted shut. The authorities won’t use the word, but this city is essentially in
Read moreLockdown frustration grows in China’s COVID epicentre despite a surge in cases | World News
The main roads that run into the district of Haizhu stood almost silent this morning. While such arterial roads would
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Covid lockdown: No police action over Shaun Bailey Tory event
Former mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey was pictured drinking with aides while London was in lockdown. Read more BBC News Now
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No let-up in China’s zero-COVID stance as cases surge to highest since Shanghai lockdown | World News
China’s COVID case load has soared to its highest since this year’s strict two-month Shanghai lockdown, with the capital Beijing
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Ebola outbreak in Uganda: Mubende, a district under lockdown
In Uganda, the government has extended a 21-day lockdown in the two districts at the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola
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