Lockdown

Five years since the first Covid lockdown in the UK, the impact of the pandemic is still being felt

Five remarkable ways the Covid pandemic forever changed life

Wunderhorse before making their Boardmasters main stage debut

Boardmasters 2024: Wunderhorse chat main stage debut and second album

How to spend more 'quality time' with family

I'm a mum of two and I conquered "the world's toughest row"

A teenage boy has been arrested after a teacher was stabbed at a secondary school in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

Breaking Secondary school lockdown: Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbed

Downing Street has been put on lockdown after a suspcious packaged was reported

Breaking Downing Street on ‘lockdown’ after suspicious package reported

Letter to the editor

Robin Swann should be able to face strong criticism on an important issue

News Letter editorial

Authorities again seem to find little wrong in clear social distancing breach

Midsummer Night’s Dream at Riverside

Ulster's Will Addison. Pic by Getty.

Will Addison reflects on his injury absence and future ambitions with Ulster

Alex Jones has revealed she is pregnant for a third time with her first baby girl. (Photo: Matt Crossick/PA)

The One Show's Alex Jones is expecting her third child - here's how she announce...

Larne midfielder Fuad Sule. Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Presseye/Brian Little

Hard work paying off for Larne says Fuad Sule

Raksha Dave, Dr Xand van Tulleken & John Sergeant on a rooftop overlooking Leicester Square

‘Lockdown’ was used during the Great Plague

Peter Cardwell

Former SPAD Peter Cardwell’s ‘tell all’ book about life in Westminster officiall...

These are 30 world records you can try and break at home

Ian Cullen and Denis Finnegan, Directors at Grofuse, the Londonderry-based digital growth agency which created Mercury Order online ordering Software as a Service for retail

Mercury Order shortlisted for top award
Northern Irish-built online shopping platform Mercury Order is in the running for an international award for innovation during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Claire Cartmill

Riverside Theatre goes outdoors

Riverside presents Alice in Lockdown

Brendan McDowell, MD of BPerfect Cosmetics is pictured with BPerfect team mates Emma Devir and Fionulla McCormac

New heights for BPerfect Cosmetics as they experience online boom

The Black Lives Matter protestors in London and Belfast, above on Wednesday, decided they could tear up everything we were told about proximity of people and crowds. The goodwill that sustained lockdown had been hanging by a thread after the Dominic Cummings saga. The flagrant breaches of these protests were the final straw. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: Lockdown is now dead, as a result of the weakness of the authorities

Here are five ways that locked-down Brits can save money

Clare Bailey MLA is Green Party NI leader

Clare Bailey: Stormont is lifting lockdown in a measured manner

Dogs Trust asks: is now really the right time for you to get a dog?

‘A Dog Is For Life®, Not Just For Lockdown’ – Dogs Trust

Belfast City Hall, lit up for the NHS above, will be illuminated on Friday to mark VE Day

Coronavirus: Lockdown forces changes to NI VE Day celebrations

Health Minister Robin Swann and Chief Nursing Officer Charlotte McArdle at Belfast City Hospital, which has become a Nightingale hospital. Neil McCarthy says the anonymous doctor quoted in the News Letter "simply revealed something that has been reported in US and Great Britain hospitals that medical staff have almost nothing to do"

Neil McCarthy: The doctor who talked about the huge harm of lockdown had a point

Letter to the editor

Other countries have shown that lockdown is not only approach to fighting Covid-...

VIDEO Orange Lily is on lockdown
Comedian William Caulfield, who is well known for bringing the popular Our Jimmy characters back to life, has been sharing what some of the favourite characters feel about the lockdown.
Julie-Ann Spence

News Letter editorial

Lockdown has been an entirely appropriate precautionary response to a health cri...

Are you thinking it might be time for an at home haircut? (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is all the advice you need if you’re going to attempt cutting your own hair

Youth forum survey on Coronavirus

If you had to cancel your wedding because of lockdown, Channel 4 wants to hear f...

Emily Philips at the launch of Explore NI

Explore NI’s shops and services from home

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