Not only did the PM announced a new full lockdown in a TV address, as others have already said, but he also specifically gave a gov.uk URL as way to check details and rules.
Huge audience plus that equalled massive traffic spike.
Huge audience plus that equalled massive traffic spike.
Like many, I was hitting F5 repeatedly on this page waiting for a document that didn't seem to be there, eager to know restrictions on various aspects of life. But the /coronavirus page just contained stale advice from December.
Eventually at 8:15pm, somebody found a link to a PDF of the new guidance and posted it on Twitter:
"This has all been done with such crashing urgency that they haven’t even been able to transpose the PDF version of the guidance into the website yet, it is here:"
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1346188409300258816
[this is how it played out for me at least, did anyone else see this differently?]