A heavily pregnant nurse working with Covid patients felt ‘pressured’ to return to work where she caught the virus, her husband has told an inquest today. Mary Agyapong, 28, was heavily pregnant and working as a nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire when she fell ill in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
The great licence fee farce: Pensioners are pressured to pay twice amid delays and system chaos… then can’t get refunds Pensioners pressured into paying the £157.50 fee twice due to processing delays They have also been left out of pocket for months as refund requests are ignored Around 4.2million pensioners were claiming free licence when … Read more
A mother was ‘pressured’ into having a caesarean as a result of her hospital’s ban on partners attending births due to its Covid restrictions – in spite of Government guidance. Ally Watson, who gave birth to her daughter Alaia-Jayne four weeks ago, was told by hospital staff that she could have her partner with her … Read more
Forty. It’s a watershed age and Victoria Pendleton — one of our greatest ever female Olympians — can’t quite work out what reaching the milestone means to her. Is she having a belated episode of adolescent defiance, denied to her in her teens because she was so fiercely committed to sport? Or has retirement from … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing allegations that he pressured his standards advisor to water down his report on Priti Patel’s bullying of staff to make the findings more ‘palatable’. Downing Street did not deny claims Mr Johnson had tried and failed to convince Sir Alex Allan to tone down his conclusion that the Home Secretary’s behaviour … Read more
A Trump administration aide pressured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts to alter its report on children’s coronavirus risks, emails obtained by Politico suggest. Paul Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods at McMaster University in Canada who was brought into the Trump administration by Michael Caputo, pressed the editor of … Read more
Donald Trump reportedly tried to get the US ambassador to the UK to arrange for the British Open to be held at his golf resort in Scotland, despite event organizers overlooking the venue since he became president. US ambassador Woody Johnson IV – who also owns the New York Jets – told multiple colleagues that the … Read more
One in five people aged over 55 admit to feeling peer pressured into drinking MORE alcohol, study finds Experts found that peer pressure is felt across all age groups — just differently Senior citizens may feel ‘older and wiser’ but they are not immune to influence Older people are less likely to identify peer pressure … Read more
One in five people aged over 55 admit to feeling peer pressured into drinking MORE alcohol, study finds Experts found that peer pressure is felt across all age groups — just differently Senior citizens may feel ‘older and wiser’ but they are not immune to influence Older people are less likely to identify peer pressure … Read more
A Catholic priest was allegedly ‘pressured’ into holding a wedding for a young couple at a Welsh church amid lockdown, with one guest saying ‘coronavirus won’t stop us having a party’. Father Sebastian Jones performed a wedding service for a young couple at St Alban-on-the-Moors in Splott, Cardiff on May 12, after the parents ‘insisted that … Read more