Conservative Party Chair Oliver Dowden has urged people not to cancel Christmas plans amid concern over the Omicron Covid variant. "People should not be worried this Christmas, we're taking appropriate and proportionate steps … keep calm, carry on with your Christmas plans, there's no need to cancel Christmas parties," he said. .
Some 29,517 NHS staff at hospital trusts in England were ill with coronavirus or having to self-isolate.
When Millie the Jack Russell was spotted on marshland near Portsmouth after going missing last Thursday, a Hampshire search and rescue team was called in to save the day.
The Doomsday Clock has remained at 100 seconds to midnight for a third year in a row, as scientists said the world is “no safer” than it was this time last year.
A prominent “Red Wall” Tory MP dismissed on Thursday as “bonkers” that she was leading a coup against Boris Johnson but suggested his future was still in doubt. Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland, a seat the Conservatives had never won before 2019, stressed she was “incredibly angry” about the Downing Street parties and the Prime Minister’s response.
At least one child was killed in northern Syria this week when a storm blanketed tented camps in snow and brought freezing temperatures, compounding the misery of thousands of people displaced by the Mediterranean country's decade-long war. The child died and its mother was in intensive care after snow caused their tent to collapse in the Qastal Miqdad area, as a result of the storm that struck on Jan. 18, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. "I was scared the tent would fall down on the kids," Abu Anas said in Zaitoun camp in northern Syria, after his family fled from eastern Gouta, an area on the outskirts of Damascus that was devastated by the conflict.
“We are spending money on harming people rather than saving them,” Sir Robert Buckland warned.
Greg Hunt says government is being blamed when overcommitted suppliers can’t deliver, and false RAT claims will be reported to ACCC
Robin Swann was speaking the day after a swathe of relaxations to the Covid restrictions were announced by the Executive.
'French and Saunders' icon Dawn French says "cheap" reality shows are killing comedy programmes, because they don't cost as much to make.
The atmosphere is buzzing aboard this Turkish train as it winds through snow-capped hills from Ankara to Kars. The Eastern Express has become Turkey's most coveted and festive train journey, making multiple stops in the country's east. Tickets were snapped up within minutes when the service started up again after a hiatus due to the coronavirus.
Humanitarian officials estimate that about 84,000 people — more than 80% of the Pacific nation’s population — have been affected.
The people of Croydon hate this label - and they're doing everything they can to get rid of it. Last year was the worst on record for teenage murders in London. There were 30 in total, and five happened in Croydon - more than any other borough in the capital.
Gardai are investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death.
Previous research has suggested that peanut allergy affects 2% of children in Western countries and most remain allergic across their lifetime.
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After weeks of work from home guidance, Plan B restrictions will be lifted on 26 January, heralding the return of commuters to central London offices. What is needed now is a concerted effort to return London to its pre-pandemic state.
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