Coronavirus

• The Feelgood Food Feed - cheery news during the coronovirus crisis

  If you're looking for news stories to take your mind off the awfulness of the current coronovirus crisis, you've come to the right place. Here's what the food world are doing to make things just a little bit better.

• All restaurants, cafes and bars in the UK ordered to close (but can still offer takeout)

  

  Well, there we have it. After days of uncertainty over the status of the hospitality industry, the Prime Minister came down firmly in today's Covid briefing. All restaurants, bar and cafes are to close as soon as possible today and they are not to reopen.

  Anyone tempted to go out tonight one last time was urged not to: "You may think you're invincible but there's no guarantee you'll get

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• The Chancellor offers new government support for restaurants, pubs and the hospitality industry

  

  A day on from announcing that everyone should avoid going to pubs, clubs and other hospitality industry (which left the people responsible for those restaurants justifiably angry), the Prime Minister and Chancellor have been back at their podiums for a second day's

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• Government advice to avoid pubs and "social spaces" could have a dire effect on the hospitality industry

  

  Yesterday, the government stepped up its plans for dealing with coronavirus. In his first daily briefing, the Prime Minister said it was now time to avoid non-essential contact and travel and that the British (Londoners, in particular, are weeks ahead of the rest of the country in the pandemic curve) "should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues".

  This was a far cry from the clarification the hospitality industry needed and here's

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