The coronavirus vaccine programme must be speeded up, politicians and business leaders said on Wednesday night. Jeremy Hunt led calls to accelerate the roll-out as the pandemic tightened its grip with a fast-spreading new variant. ‘Time is against us with this new strain so we now need a great national effort to turbocharge the vaccination … Read more
The full list of hospitals where Pfizer jabs will be given to the first British recipients were revealed last night as the UK military carried out dry-run drills for the country’s biggest-ever mass vaccination. Fifty trusts are poised to roll out Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine when the first of 40 million doses are administered from next week, … Read more
Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan reveals the programme had its highest EVER ratings this week as he celebrates five years on the show By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 14:22 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 14:49 GMT, 25 November 2020 Piers Morgan has revealed Good Morning Britain achieved its highest ever viewer ratings … Read more
Listeners slam ‘woke’ BBC R4’s Today programme for replacing the word fishermen with ‘fisherpeople’ – despite women making up just 2.7% of trawler crews Europe editor Katya Adler used the gender neutral description on air yesterday Critics argued that people working on trawlers are overwhelmingly men Ashley Mullenger, who calls herself the ‘female fisherman’, joined … Read more
Singer Sinead O’Connor has announced that she has cancelled her upcoming tour dates to enter a ‘one-year programme for trauma and addiction’ starting next week. The Irish singer, 53, took to Twitter to reveal her news on Tuesday, after saying she had ‘lost someone beloved’ and had endured a ‘traumatic six years.’ Sinead admitted she … Read more
Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith reveals she skips breakfast and lunch when judging the programme to keep in shape By Dominique Hines For The Daily Mail Published: 01:58 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 02:07 GMT, 2 November 2020 Prue Leith skips breakfast and lunch when judging The Great British Bake Off – to … Read more
Mass testing and a better contact tracing regime could bring the UK’s coronavirus outbreak under control, SAGE has claimed in another dig at Number 10‘s bungling test and trace system. Government scientific advisers endorsed Boris Johnson‘s £100billion Operation Moonshot, which would see 10million people tested a day regardless of whether they have symptoms, in a … Read more
NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has admitted the programme is not a ‘silver bullet’ for solving the coronavirus crisis as Michael Gove defended giving police access to self-isolation data. Baroness Harding said the £12 billion programme is ‘undoubtedly a very important’ part of the Government’s efforts to tackle the spread of infection. But she … Read more
A council who published documents over its tree felling programme in the middle of the night to ‘avoid scrutiny’ has apologised for its ‘lack of… honesty’. Sheffield City Council was forced to issue a public apology after a report found it acted with a ‘lack of transparency, openness and, on occasion, honesty’ in the … Read more
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for ‘its efforts to combat global hunger’ The UN’s World Food Programme has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Judges said the prize was to recognise its efforts in tackling global hunger Award is a snub to WHO, also a UN body, amid … Read more