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Pair first met at Oxford University and have remained friends ever since

‘We’re now in a race to the finish line,’ says NHS England chief

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‘This feels like propaganda,’ infant school headteacher says

Keir Starmer slams the abuse as ‘disgraceful’

Vaccinated patients ‘should seek immediate medical attention’ if they get new chest pain or shortness of breath

‘Most of the breeders I’m talking to are blaming the atmospheric conditions — possibly a solar storm above the clouds that created static in the atmosphere,’ says pigeon fancier

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group write to Boris Johnson, telling him to fire health secretary

The coin is legal tender but will not be entering general circulation

Pressure grows for investigation as prime minister branded ‘spineless’ for failure to act

Exclusive: The party also wants to introduce ethnicty pay gap reporting

Health secretary’s meeting with Gina Coladangelo would have to be ‘reasonably necessary for work purposes’ to be legal

Ziggy Desmond Mombeyarara has expressed his ‘disappointment’ of an IOPC ruling which clears the officers of any wrongdoing

Cancer Research UK boss calls new figures ‘worrying’

Labour and Lib Dems have called for health secretary to go, while Boris Johnson ‘considers matter closed’

Killer was first man convicted of murder on basis of DNA evidence in 1988

‘We got Hancocked’: Dominic Cummings claims health secretary ‘failed terribly’ at outset of pandemic

‘This horrendous experience must be stopped,’ says leading domestic abuse charity’s director

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A 59-year-old man will appear before Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Friday

One 25-year-old, one 19-year-old and two 18-year-olds are charged with conspiracy to murder

The German government is hinting at tweaks to an agreement between the European Union and Britain on how to set border controls with Northern Ireland that could help resolve on ongoing dispute between Brussels and London

Britain’s health minister has apologized for breaching social distancing rules after a newspaper ran pictures of him embracing a woman with whom he allegedly had an affair

Minister has been hit with barrage of claims from Dominic Cummings and called ‘poor man’ by the Queen

Judges say there should be ‘degree of tolerance to disruption’ caused by right to protest

AA says traffic was down at 22 per cent of pre-pandemic levels

‘Hypocrite Hancock should go’: Labour and Lib Dems call on Boris Johnson to sack health secretary

Health secretary gave adviser role at his department – but there was no public record of appointment

Labour has called for Matt Hancock to be sacked after he was photographed in a clinch with a female adviser at the Department of Health in breach of Covid safety guidelines.

Embrace of university friend Gina Coladangelo - captured on camera - follows controversy over her appointment to director’s role

According to Mr Hancock, ‘social distancing rules are very important and people should follow them’

Minister condemned scientific adviser after he was found to have arranged lockdown visits with lover