Daily news bulletin: Two arrested 30 years after mum murdered in car, P&O hush money and lockdown

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📰 Detectives investigating the murder of Vera Anderson, which took place on 24 August 1991 in Penketh, Warrington, have arrested two people.

A 70-year-old man from Widnes and a 61-year-old woman from Warrington have been arrested on suspicion of murder.

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Ms Anderson was found dead with her throat cut in her car in the early hours of Sunday on Tannery Lane in Penketh after leaving her home address the previous evening.

📰 Unions are calling for better employment laws despite news of a multi-million pound compensation package for axed workers from P&O Ferries.

The RMT are calling the payout hush money as they say seafarers have been told if they don't sign up to non-disclosure agreements they will not get any settlement.

📰 It's now two years on from the first lockdown of the pandemic.

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On March 23, 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced restrictions in a bid to help handle the spread of COVID-19.

Residents were told to stay at home, to only go shopping for essential items and were allowed to have one form of outdoor exercise a day.