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Founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse Kent Taylor died on March 18

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    The risk of suffering a serious blood clot after the AstraZeneca jab has doubled in a fortnight, new figures show, but the British regulator said the benefits still outweighed the risks for the vast majority of people. New data from the Medical Healthcare products and Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show cases have risen from 79 to 168 since April 8, and deaths from 19 to 32. The risk of getting a blood clot has also gone up from one in 250,000 to around one in 126,600 – or a rise of four in a million to 7.9 in a million. Earlier this month the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that under-30s should be offered an alternative to the Oxford jab, because the risk no longer outweighed the benefits for younger people. A source close to JCVI said the committee would be reviewing the new data carefully this week, to assess whether the risk was also still worth the benefit for older groups now that the chance of getting a blood clot had risen.

  • Man tells court how accused said he was paid £10,000 to kill actor Bradley Welsh

    The man accused of murdering T2 Trainspotting star Bradley Welsh told another male of how he was being paid £10,000 to kill the actor, a court has heard. Bradley Welsh, 48, was fatally shot at his flat in the west end of Edinburgh on April 17 2019. Giving evidence to the court on Thursday, Dean White, 49, also said that he warned the police of plans to murder Mr Welsh a month before his death. Sean Orman, 30, has pleaded not guilty to all 15 charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, firearms and drugs offences, and is on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. The witness told the court that he had seen the accused at his brother Robert's home in Duddingston Row with a man known as Peem in March 2019 - a few weeks before Mr Welsh was found dead outside his home in the city. He said they were speaking about carrying out an attack on a man and his son in the Oxgangs area for money. He said the accused then claimed he was due to murder Mr Welsh, who ran a boxing gym, for £10,000, which prompted the witness to alert Police Scotland around March 18. Mr White said: "He brought a wad of cash out and it was like thousands and he had told us that he had seriously assaulted someone in Oxgangs and the guy that he'd assaulted got in the way and that he seriously assaulted his son as well." The witness then told the court that Mr Orman had claimed to have been paid by Dode Baigrie to carry out the attack. Mr White added: "He said that his next hit he was getting £10,000 to kill Bradley Welsh. I went to the police and reported this before it happened." He also said the accused had turned up at his brother’s home with an "old-styled" shotgun, which he was showing off and misfired into the floor of the property. Mr White said he then told officers about the incident and that they may be able to recover a bullet. Richard Goddard QC, advocate depute, asked how he had felt about the events in his brother's property. Mr White said: "Extremely nervous and I went straight to the police station and told them exactly what happened in my brother's house. "I told them what their plans were, that they were going to get Bradley Welsh and this was a month before the guy got murdered." The trial, before judge Lord Beckett, continues.

  • Exclusive: Hollyoaks' Callum Kerr on George's departure from the show

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  • Sir Tom Jones recalls words of advice from late wife Linda

    The pop superstar has dedicated a song on his new album to her.

  • Failure to honour black and Asian troops a 'grave injustice'

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that "everybody who died fighting for Britain or the Commonwealth in any conflict deserves to be recognised and remembered equally”. The opposition leader’s comments come after a report found up to 350,000 predominantly black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire were not properly commemorated due to "pervasive racism".

  • William and Kate release new picture of Prince Louis to mark his third birthday

    A new photograph of Prince Louis has been released by his parents to mark his third birthday today. The Duchess of Cambridge took the picture of her youngest child in the grounds of Kensington Palace on Wednesday shortly before he left for his first day of nursery school. Louis was probably welcomed by the sight of his favourite toy or a picture from home when he arrived at Willcocks.

  • Jake Paul calls for Pete Davidson to be banned from boxing commentary after comedian ridicules him to his face

    Paul also said he believed Davidson was creating drama for ‘more clout’

  • French fishermen block British lorries carrying UK-landed fish

    Boulogne-sur-Mer, France (Reuters) - French trawlermen angered by the slow issuance of licenses to fish inside British waters after Brexit on Thursday blocked lorries carrying UK-landed fish as they arrived in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Europe's largest seafood processing centre. Britain's post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc's fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a license. Those licenses were expected to be issued swiftly but instead some 80% of the French fleet in the northern Hauts-de-France region, from whose coastline Britain's southern shores are visible, were still waiting, French fishermen said.

  • Majority of schools will ‘prioritise exam-style papers when deciding grades’

    The survey findings come after this summer’s GCSE and A-level exams were cancelled for the second year in a row.

  • New Zealand’s stance on China has deep implications for the Five Eyes alliance

    New Zealand’s stance on China has deep implications for the Five Eyes alliance. Analysis: Country has confirmed itself the weak link in the intelligence chain it joined with the US, UK, Canada and Australia

  • TV tonight: Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend on The Who Sell Out

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  • Covid vaccine passports ‘ready for summer’, travel industry told

    Certificates for international travel could be used from next month as ministers step up plans to allow Brits to holiday abroad this summer

  • Australia urges AstraZeneca to send 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to PNG after EU clearance

    Australia's Minister for Trade has urged AstraZeneca to dispatch 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Papua New Guinea amid concerns about the spread of the virus there, saying the EU had pledged no hindrance to the exports. "We have very clear assurances (from Brussels) that AstraZeneca does not have to apply through the EU export transparency regime to send those one million doses to Papua New Guinea," Minister Dan Tehan told reporters in London on Thursday, speaking during a trade mission to Europe. "There is nothing that is preventing them from sending those one million doses, from Europe to PNG and the ball is clearly in AstraZeneca's court."

  • Kent council fined after mother and son left to live in tent in pandemic

    Kent council fined after mother and son left to live in tent in pandemicMedway council missed five chances to help family despite being informed they were at riskCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage A tent in a graveyard. The mother and teenage son slept in a tent for almost two months. Photograph: Avpics/Alamy

  • Labour would lose snap general election, Starmer ally admits

    Rachel Reeves claims progress has been made after poll shows Labour down on last election

  • Tyson Fury tips Billy Joe Saunders to shock Canelo Alvarez and unify middleweight world titles

    The undisputed world heavyweight title fight is due to take place this summer but terms are yet to be finalised

  • Malaria: World's most effective vaccine developed in UK for disease which kills hundreds of thousands of children each year

    The world's most effective malaria vaccine has been developed by scientists in the UK. Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners reported their Phase IIb trial of a candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, showed 77% efficacy over 12 months. Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute, and Lakshmi Mittal, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, led the research behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

  • Best garden furniture 2021

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  • It's 'fair' to call me a private education hypocrite, says Scottish Labour leader

    Anas Sarwar has admitted it is a “fair” to call him a hypocrite after he unveiled plans for an attack on private education despite sending his own children to a fee-paying school. Scottish Labour’s manifesto, published Thursday, calls for the charitable status of private schools to be revoked and for any public sector backing for them to end. The document states that such a policy would serve as “a contribution towards achieving a more socially just and inclusive society”. Mr Sarwar, the party leader, sends his own children to Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow, which he also attended, and currently charges annual fees of up to £12,924 per pupil. Asked whether he was a “hypocrite and humbug” for sending his own sons to a private school despite his own party presenting them as a force for social injustice, the father-of-three admitted criticism of him was valid. “I'm open about the fair question and the fair criticism that people make around the decision that my wife and I made for our children,” he said. “I want every child to have opportunity and that's why we put our education comeback plan at the heart of this manifesto. “There are different forms of inequality and prejudice that my children will face that other children won’t face, [but] that still means I accept the criticism around the choice I've made for my children's education.” Mr Sarwar also insisted that his support for the Union was “unequivocal” dispute pledging to “double down” on his attempt to win back support from pro-independence voters in the final fortnight of the Holyrood campaign. The manifesto includes a commitment not to support an independence referendum, warning a repeat vote would cause economic instability and “constitutional turmoil”. Mr Sarwar claimed the “political bubble” was wrong to focus on the constitution and that, despite failing to so far make a breakthrough in opinion polls, his plan to appeal across the constitutional divide was working. He was introduced at the manifesto launch by a business owner from Glasgow who said she was a lifelong SNP voter before switching to Labour. “I'll consider each issue on its merits,” Mr Sarwar said about potentially offering support to Nicola Sturgeon's SNP in the next parliament. “But does that mean I'm equivocating on the constitutional position? Absolutely not. I don't support independence, and I don't support a referendum.” Labour rebranded its manifesto a ‘national recovery plan’ and proposes handing every adult £75 to spend on high streets and offering state subsidised holidays in Scotland to boost the ailing tourism industry. The party did not propose immediate increases to income tax, however. It said if there is a need to raise revenues in the next term, rates should rise for those earning £100,000 or more. The better off could also be hit if Labour gets its way on council tax, which the party said should be scrapped and replaced with “a fairer alternative based on property values and ability to pay”.

  • ‘You’re old, impotent and an embarrassment’: Lincoln Project targets Trump with Mar-a-Lago advert

    The ad will air starting on Thursday in Palm Beach, Florida – where Mar-a-Lago is based