England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty is confident the Covid-19 jab will "significantly" reduce education disruption seen during the pandemic but will not eliminate it. He also says there are "no plans" to consider vaccination for under-12s currently.
Budget 2021: key points at a glance. Rishi Sunak has delivered his budget – here are the main points, with political analysis
Government will also freeze fuel duty to make it cheaper to drive
"There are very unfair rules in the agriculture sector, and enormous subsidies some developed country members are entitled to, that severely distort international agricultural trade," Wang Shouwen, vice minister of China's Ministry of Commerce, told a press briefing. Agricultural subsidies allowed for developing countries, however, are capped at 10% of the value of production and have "very limited impact" on trade, added Wang, yet are vital for ensuring grain supply and food security.
With cuffing season upon us and the festive season just around the corner, Kiehl’s new skincare offer couldn’t come at a better time.
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Budget allocates £2m to plan Beatles-inspired attraction in Liverpool. Proposed waterfront development is one of several ‘levelling up’ projects announced for northern England
Four migrants, three of them children, drowned on Tuesday after a boat in which they and 23 others were trying to cross from Turkey to Greece sank, the Greek coast guard said. Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union for asylum-seekers crossing from Turkey in flimsy, overcrowded rubber boats. The boat sank off the Greek island of Chios where strong winds were blowing, a coast guard statement said.
Scottish city ready for ‘unprecedented’ disruption to transport network
Concerts will be singer’s first UK shows since 2017
Journalists' inboxes are filling up with emails from the Treasury. The National Living Wage - that's the minimum wage for people aged over 23 - will rise to £9.50 next April, helping around two million workers. Ministers cannot say what public sector pay will be, because the pay review bodies consider various factors for each occupation.
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John Welsby, who has died aged 83, was the final chairman of British Rail as the industry was privatised, having played a vital role in raising the nationalised BR to new heights of efficiency.
The House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection has focused some of its early work on the planning behind a massive rally at which former president Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won reelection and told his supporters to “fight like hell”
Foreign tourists will soon roam Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat temples once again, after officials on Tuesday flagged a partial reopening to vaccinated travellers.
Some drinks will see their duty levels rise when the changes come into force in 2023 due to their relatively high alcohol levels.
"I am just the same, unselfconfident person I was," Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told Sky News in August last year. A day later she would appear in an emotional video recorded clearly under duress where she said she had over-estimated her strength, that she was "still the same weak woman that I was" and would be leaving Belarus. "I was threatened with my children," she tells Dermot Murnaghan in the Sky News Daily podcast.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he will take the steps to radically simplify alcohol duty with a system designed around the principle of "the stronger the drink, the higher the rate", as well as a 'draught relief' - a new, lower rate of duty on draught beer and cider.
Members of the Tuskegee University marching band are threatening to quit performing at school events to protest what they say is a lack of resources and support
Manchester Arena bombing: MI5 officer accepts ‘different actions would have stopped plot’. Salman Abedi was not stopped and questioned on return to UK from Libya, inquiry hears
The president of Lithuania met with a mother concerned for her LGBT+ child’s future, and the future of every other child like them.
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