Harriet Brewis is a news reporter for the Evening Standard, covering everything from breaking news to long-form features. She was one of the lead reporters on the ES and Independent’s 2019 Christmas fundraising campaign for the homeless.
Harriet Brewis is a news reporter for the Evening Standard, covering everything from breaking news to long-form features. She was one of the lead reporters on the ES and Independent’s 2019 Christmas fundraising campaign for the homeless.

Archive imagery a reminder of Christmas pasts in the capital

The latest figured were published just minutes before Boris Johnson said the Government had “no choice” but to impose a third lockdown

The latest figures come as the UK braces for tighter Covid lockdown restrictions

– It will be a ‘legal requirement’ to stay at home
– Schools will remain closed until February 1
– Scotland is ‘four weeks behind London’

Across London, the number of hospital beds filled with Covid-19 patients is around double what it was just two weeks ago

– Boris Johnson said Britain now has the chance to ‘transform our country’
– French president Emmanuel Macron condemned Brexit as the product of ‘many lies and false promises’

The landmark events from wildfires and Black Lives Matter to Covid-19 and the election of a new US president