It’s elderly hour: Iceland, Lidl and Nationwide open up early for pensioners as confusion reigns over Boris Johnson’s coronavirus advice for the over-70s to ‘stay inside’ (and even PM’s own FATHER vows to go to the pub)

Iceland, Lidl and Nationwide opened up early for pensioners today amid confusion over Boris Johnson’s official advice to the over-70s to ‘stay inside’ – as even his own father vowed to continue going to the pub. The PM has told everyone to avoid visiting pubs and shops, but says this is particularly important for over-70s due to their increased vulnerability to the disease, as he prepares to tell everyone in the age group to self-isolate for 12 weeks starting this weekend. But today many appeared to be defiantly continuing with their daily routines, including his 79-year-old father, Stanley, who told This Morning: ‘Yes of course I’ll go to the pub if I need to go to a pub.’ Meanwhile, others took to social media to insist older people should ‘decide for themselves’ whether to self-isolate, as MailOnline columnist Janet Street-Porter, 73, accused the government of treating all old people like ‘crumbling wrecks’. Meanwhile, Esther Rantzen, 79, led calls for Britons to support their elderly relatives and neighbours, as she warned of the need to protect them from the ‘modern plague of loneliness’. It came as nationwide death toll hit 55 as the government braced itself for more emergency measures, including a… Read full this story

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