UK News 18 February
Prince Philip, 99 years old is now in hospital. The duke has been feeling unwell for a few days. It is notN Covid. He has had the vaccine already. He is having a hospital check up and rest – not an emergency. He will be 100 years old in June. They say he is in good mood.
Boris Johnson will announce on February 22nd how UK will leave lockdown step by step slowly and very carefully. Why? Maybe in the summer Covid rates will increase again? He says he will look at the information collected by scientists across the whole country. Yesterday, there were over 12 thousand new cases with 21,000 ill people in the hospitals – There is still too much pressure on NHS.
Lord David Frost will become a minister at the Cabinet Office. He was the Brexit negotiator. He will represent UK in EU/UK relations after Brexit and will sort out problems like the Northern Ireland border. He will also look for new trade opportunities.
The HS2 protest continues at the Euston tunnel. A boy aged 16 left the a tunnel near Euston Station. He had been underground for 22 days. Paramedics looked at him then he was handed over to the police. The boy was the fourth to leave the tunnel which was dug in secret. Some protestors are still underground.
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