Schoolboys made to apologise for 'stuff we didn't do' during assembly about sexual assault

A boy who was made to apologise to female classmates for the "behaviours of (his) gender" says he was forced to "apologise for stuff we didn't actually do".

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    Covid UK: coronavirus cases, deaths and vaccinations today. The latest daily updates on coronavirus cases in your local area and nationally. Check week-on-week changes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the latest figures from public health authorities

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    The Government’s mass testing plan has been criticised as a waste of “time and money”, as MPs heard in some areas 10,000 people would need to be tested to find one positive case. The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus heard evidence from experts on the benefits of mass testing using lateral flow tests (LFTs) for controlling the pandemic and hosting large events. Seven days worth of rapid tests were made available for everyone in England for free earlier this month, through both an online ordering system and a new "Pharmacy Collect" service. Layla Moran, chair of the APPG, said mass testing “seems to be the panacea at the moment” for the Government, but questioned “how reliable is it?” Professor Jon Deeks said there is “no evidence” to show mass testing works. “For this mass test, the Innova test, we have the Liverpool study and the University of Birmingham study, that’s a total of 78 cases where we know how well it detects (positive cases)," he said. “That is absolutely outrageous that we are now testing the whole population based effectively on data from 78 people, which actually showed it doesn’t work very well." If those cases were not tested at all they would have been missed, he added, so the tests have “some benefit but at what cost?” “In the South West at the moment, I think we are down to 0.09 per cent prevalence and that probably means we would be using 10,000 tests to find one case in the next few weeks,” Prof Deeks said. “I don’t think that’s a good use of people’s time or money or public health capital to do that. There are far better things we could be doing,” such as fixing test and trace, he added. The Department of Health and Social Care were contacted for comment.

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  • Boris Johnson accused of ‘false promises’ after again threatening to suspend Northern Ireland Protocol

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  • UK records 33 Covid deaths as ‘possible’ blood clot link discovered in another vaccine

    The UK has recorded 33 more Covid-19 deaths with 2,524 people tested positive in the past 24 hours. Yesterday the country recorded just four deaths as cases continued to fall with weekend reporting lags usually behind the very low number. The official UK death toll now stands at a total of 127,307.

  • SNP leader's 'bitter and blind hostility' can't accept UK vaccine programme bolsters case for Union

    Nicola Sturgeon's "bitter and blind hostility" to the UK means she cannot accept the vaccination programme bolsters the case for the Union, the Tories have said after she insisted a separate Scotland would have performed just as well. Donald Cameron, the Tories' health spokesman, accused the First Minister of "delusional nonsense" after she insisted there was "absolutely no evidential basis" to suggest fewer Scots would have been vaccinated outside the UK. Ms Sturgeon was challenged during an STV election interview that no other European country has vaccinated anything like the UK's total, with the Republic of Ireland hoping to complete its over-70s by the end of next month. She said a separate Scotland "could have chosen to procure the way it thought was best" and anybody claiming the situation would have been worse was "basically plucking this out of thin air." Ms Sturgeon insisted a separate Scotland would have fared just as well came after she received her first dose of the Oxford vaccine last week. But a series of her ministers demanded the UK sign up to the EU's vaccine procurement plan last year and expressed outrage when the Prime Minister refused.

  • ‘I don’t need lectures from you’, Keir Starmer tells anti-lockdown landlord sharing misinformation

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  • UK unemployment rate falls to 4.9%

    Britain's unemployment rate has dropped for the second month in a row as the jobless rate fell to 4.9% between December and February, down from 5% in the previous three months. Official figures show job vacancies surged as businesses prepared to reopen after lockdown.

  • Mike Lindell pranked on livestream by caller pretending to be Donald Trump

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  • Boris Johnson Announces Plan To Find Covid-19 Tablets You Can Take At Home

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  • Florida just signed into law one of the most dangerous bills in America

    The ‘anti-riot’ bill brought in by Governor DeSantis means fully peaceful protesters can be arrested — yet includes protections for counter-protesters who kill people with their vehicles

  • Boomtown 2021 cancelled as organisers cite lack of government-backed Covid insurance

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  • No man-to-man for Prince Charles and Harry as Duke heads back to US

    The Duke of Sussex will return to California without having a private meeting with his father, The Telegraph understands. Many family members had hoped the pair would take the opportunity to spend some time together alone, to air their differences face to face. But despite a 10,000-mile round trip, the Duke was either unable, or unwilling, to pin down the Prince of Wales, who is still coming to terms with the death of his father. While the Duke’s travel plans have not been disclosed, he is thought likely to return home to his pregnant wife, the Duchess of Sussex, 39, and their son Archie, who turns two next month, within the next day or two. The lack of any time spent with his father suggests that feelings over his Oprah Winfrey interview are still running high and the fallout remains raw.

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