- The Independent Feed 03:46December 5, 2021At-home Covid pill pilot will reportedly be rolled out before ChristmasThe UK has secured enough supplies of the drug to treat 480,000 people with the order set to be delivered to the UK by the end of the year
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- The Independent Feed 03:20December 5, 2021Travel industry fury as Covid pre-departure tests returnMinisters said they were responding to new data showing the spread of the new Omicron variant.
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- The Independent Feed 03:18December 5, 2021People urged to get booster shot as nearly 20 million top-up doses given across the UKMore than a third of people aged 12 and over have received a Covid-19 booster vaccine
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- Breaking Defense 03:15December 5, 2021SecDef Austin ‘very concerned’ about Russian aggression toward Ukraine“They’ve invaded before, and as we look at the numbers of forces that are in the border region, as we look at some of the things that are occurring in the information space, as we look at what’s going on in the cyber domain, it really raises our concern,” Austin said.
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- The Independent Feed 03:01December 5, 2021William reveals Tina Turner hit brings back memories of mother DianaThe Duke of Cambridge has recorded an audio walking tour for the Time To Walk series featured on the Apple Watch.
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- The Independent Feed 03:01December 5, 2021William still moved by traumatic moment from his air ambulance daysThe Duke of Cambridge spent two years working as a helicopter pilot with East Anglian Air Ambulance.
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- The Independent Feed 02:56December 5, 2021Jury shown footage of Sir Richard Sutton murder suspect leading police on 135mph chase through LondonThomas Schreiber dragged from Range Rover after collision in Chiswick
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- The Independent Feed 02:35December 5, 2021Unvaccinated mothers tell of ‘terrifying’ ordeals as they urge pregnant women to get jabbedNo fully vaccinated pregnant women were admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 in England between February and the end of September 2021
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- The Independent Feed 02:27December 5, 2021Sir Lewis Hamilton: I had nothing to do with Grenfell dealSir Lewis has said that the deal between Mercedes’s F1 team and Kingspan has ‘nothing’ to do with him.
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- The Guardian(UK) 02:13December 5, 2021Call for Tory peer Michelle Mone to resign as accuser speaks out in alleged racism rowExclusive: Lord Strasburger says conduct rules need to be strengthened after no action taken against peer following complaintThe Liberal Democrat peer Lord Strasburger has called for the House of Lords’ conduct rules to be strengthened after no action was taken on a complaint that the Conservative peer Michelle Mone allegedly sent a racist message to a man of Indian heritage.Strasburger has also said Mone should resign from the Lords due to the complaint, which alleges that she told the man, Richard Lynton-Jones, he was “a waste of a man’s white skin”. Mone is accused of sending the messages, screenshots of which have been seen by the Guardian, during a disagreement following a fatal yacht crash off Monaco in May 2019. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 02:09December 5, 2021PM ‘concerned’ as thousands still left without power a week after Storm ArwenAround 4,700 homes are still without power, prompting Boris Johnson to say he will offer more help from Government.
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- The Guardian 01:20December 5, 2021Biden and Putin to hold call amid tensions over Ukraine – White HouseStatement says Biden will underscore US support for UkraineAnalysis: Russia activity on Ukraine border has west on edgeThe White House said on Saturday Joe Biden would hold a call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, to underline US concerns about Russia’s buildup of forces on the border with Ukraine.Diplomats indicated earlier this week that Biden and Putin would talk. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 00:57December 5, 2021Tories break ranks on immigration to demand safe routes to UK for asylum seekersExclusive: Resettlement scheme is ‘only viable alternative’ to deaths in Channel, says backbencher
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- The Independent Feed 00:04December 5, 2021PM ‘concerned’ as thousands still left without power a week after Storm ArwenAround 4,700 homes are still without power, prompting Boris Johnson to say he will offer more help from Government.
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- The Guardian(UK) 00:00December 5, 2021Johnson faces trust crisis as sleaze shatters faith in MPsPoll reveals huge public cynicism, with just 5% of respondents believing politicians work for public goodTrust in politicians to act in the national interest rather than for themselves has fallen dramatically since Boris Johnson became prime minister, according to figures contained in a disturbing new study into the state of British democracy.The polling data from YouGov for the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) shows a particularly sharp fall in trust in the few weeks since the Owen Paterson scandal triggered a rash of Tory sleaze scandals. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 00:00December 5, 2021Home Office borders bill could ‘create a British Guantánamo Bay,’ says Tory MPFormer Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel’s plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention campA former Conservative cabinet minister has warned that the Home Office’s controversial borders bill risks creating a “British Guantanamo Bay,”. David Davis, who served as Brexit secretary from 2016 to 2018, said that the home secretary’s plans to send asylum seekers to another country while their claims are processed may create a facility as notorious as the US detention camp in Cuba.Guantanamo Bay has been described as a “stain on the human rights record” of the US and the “gulag of our times” with detainees making repeated allegations of torture, sexual degradation and religious persecution. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 23:54December 4, 2021Couple use thousands of lights to create elaborate charitable Christmas displayPeter Elliott has spent a month putting up the lights on his east London home.
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- The Independent Feed 23:07December 4, 2021Wind, rain, and snow forecast as thousands still stuck without powerForecasters predict more ‘unsettled’ weather, while engineers work to reconnect around 4,700 properties to power supplies following Storm Arwen.
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- The Guardian(UK) 23:00December 4, 2021UK’s progress on Covid now squandered, warns top scientistSir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from overCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end”, one of Britain’s most senior scientific figures has warned, as he lamented a lack of political leadership over Covid.Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust who stepped down as a government scientific adviser last month, said the progress in combatting Covid-19 since its emergence was “being squandered”. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 22:50December 4, 2021Sentences for killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes to be reviewed for leniencyAttorney general to consider whether jail terms for Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are long enoughThe jail sentences given to the couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”, the attorney general has announced.Arthur was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of his stepmother, Emma Tustin, who was jailed for life on Friday after being convicted of murder. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 22:49December 4, 2021Labour rift deepens as Angela Rayner aide suspendedComms adviser denies allegation of personal data breach
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- The Independent Feed 22:39December 4, 2021UK travel rules tightened as Covid omicron cases riseSajid Javid orders pre-departure tests for all travellers to UK, regardless of vaccination status
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- The Guardian(UK) 22:10December 4, 2021Storm Arwen: PM faces rage of ‘freezing and forgotten’ northCalls for inquiry after thousands left without power for a week in the north-east and ScotlandBoris Johnson faces calls for an urgent inquiry into the “appalling” response to Storm Arwen and the resilience of the country’s electricity networks after thousands of people were left without power for more than a week.Local residents say they felt abandoned after the failure to restore power to more than 9,000 homes, mainly across the north-east and Scotland. MPs said it was a “national scandal” that the elderly and vulnerable had been put at risk in bitterly cold conditions. Continue reading...
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- Breaking Defense 22:05December 4, 2021Top Army officer ‘very, very concerned’ about Russian military buildup near Ukraine borderThe Kremlin could be preparing a multi-front invasion of Ukraine early next year, US intelligence reportedly says.
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- The Independent Feed 21:47December 4, 2021UK travel rules tightened as Covid omicron cases riseAll international travellers to the UK will have to take a Covid test before their departure in a bid to curb the spread of the omicron variant, the government has announced.
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- The Independent Feed 21:36December 4, 2021Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Review into whether sentences of boy’s killers were too lenient
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- The Guardian(UK) 21:27December 4, 2021Covid news: pre-departure tests return for all UK arrivals to tackle Omicron, Sajid Javid confirmsFollow all the day’s coronavirus news from around the world as it happensWHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as variant spreadsRio de Janeiro’s New Year’s Eve celebrations amid Omicron fearsGerman government announces lockdown for the unvaccinatedSage scientists seek balanced UK response to Omicron concernsSee all our coronavirus coverageUK government officials and scientific advisers believe that the danger posed by the Omicron variant may not be clear until January, potentially allowing weeks of intense mixing while the variant spreads.Across Westminster, invitations to Christmas drinks are landing in embossed envelopes or on WhatsApp groups. Departmental staff parties are set to take place, as well as a reception for journalists with Rishi Sunak at No 11. Even Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are hosting a joint bash. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 21:13December 4, 2021Public sexual harassment to be made a crimeBoris Johnson planning week of law and order announcements with focus on drugs and protection for women
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- Business Insider 21:05December 4, 2021Biden warns Putin he will make it 'very, very difficult' to attack Ukraine after US intelligence says Russia is planning military offensiveUS intelligence has determined that Russian military is planning an attack on Ukraine using as many as 175,000 troops as early as next year, The Washington Post reported.
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- The Independent Feed 20:53December 4, 2021What happened to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes?Arthur’s step-mother and father were sentenced to more than 20 years in prison each
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- The Independent Feed 20:52December 4, 2021Woman taken to hospital after falling on tracks at central London tube stationTransport for London said an investigation has been launched after the incident occurred at Tottenham Court Road Tube station.
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- The Independent Feed 20:39December 4, 2021GPs welcome cuts to paperwork to focus on Covid booster jabsThe BMA said ending ‘tick-box’ exercises will free up staff but warned the service remains under ‘significant’ pressure
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- The Independent Feed 19:58December 4, 2021Police hunt three men who tried to ‘buy’ child from mother after stopping them on school runApproach in Sheffield comes after similar incident reported in neighbouring Doncaster
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- The Independent Feed 19:45December 4, 2021RNLI takes down its website after reporting ‘suspicious activity’The charity also said it had reported ‘threatening emails’ it had received to the police.
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- Business Insider 19:21December 4, 2021The co-founder of a San Francisco pizza chain says he received no applications for an assistant manager, despite raising the salary to $70,000The co-founder of Square Pie Guys told the WSJ he couldn't find an assistant manager, even after hiking the salary to $70,000.
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- The Independent Feed 19:16December 4, 2021‘We will all go to England, one hundred per cent’: Despite tragedy, migrants still determined to get to UKDespite the risks, many people are still willing to try and get to the UK
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- The Independent Feed 19:01December 4, 2021Met Police considering complaints that Christmas parties at No 10 during lockdown broke Covid rulesScotland Yard says it does not routinely investigate retrospective breaches of Covid regulations
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- The Guardian(UK) 18:30December 4, 2021Bereaved families demand investigation of every UK gambling-linked suicideDespite an estimated 400 such deaths in England a year, charity claims regulator has looked at only two since 2015On a summer’s day in 2015, mathematics graduate Joshua Jones put on his suit and headed to his gleaming office block overlooking the River Thames in London.It was the trainee accountant’s day off, but he was in turmoil after gambling away most of his monthly pay and an annual bonus. He told a friend he needed to “pop into the office”. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 18:14December 4, 2021Romance fraudster conned women in UK out of thousands, say policeNCA says Osagie Aigbonohan used series of online aliases to form relationships with victims including terminally ill womanA romance fraudster conned a victim out of thousands of pounds and targeted hundreds of others, including a terminally ill woman, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).Osagie Aigbonohan, 40, used a number of aliases to contact women online through dating and social media sites, and in one case cheated a woman out of almost £10,000, the agency said. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 18:12December 4, 2021Six-day deadline to avoid drastic cuts to London trains and buses, Sadiq Khan warnsWithout more government cash, network faces ‘managed decline’
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- The Independent Feed 16:49December 4, 2021Facebook down for thousands of users two months after major outageFacebook users have reported outages on the site just two months after the platform crashed costing the company millions.
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- Business Insider 16:23December 4, 2021A corporate Christmas party turned into the biggest Omicron 'super spreader event' outside South Africa, with up to 60 people infectedThe outbreak at a Christmas party in Oslo, Norway, is the biggest outside of South Africa, where researchers first detected the new Omicron variant.
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- Business Insider 16:10December 4, 2021A Trump-loving former KKK leader who was jailed for beating a Black man is running for office as a Republican in Georgia, say sreportChester Doles served four years in prison after being convicted of beating a Black man in Maryland, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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- The Guardian(UK) 16:01December 4, 2021Environmental activists challenge ‘unlawful’ UK fossil fuel plan in high courtClimate campaigners claim the government is giving billions of pounds in subsidies to oil and gas producers Environmental campaigners will this week ask the high court to rule that the government’s fossil fuel strategy is unlawful, in a case that could undermine the UK’s claim to be leading the fight against climate change.The campaigners will argue that the government is effectively subsidising oil and gas production with billions of pounds in handouts, which conflicts with its legal duty to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 16:00December 4, 2021Police treated us like criminals, say families of girls trafficked to Islamic State in SyriaBritish authorities accused of interrogating parents who came seeking help when their daughters went missingDetails of how police attempted to criminalise British families whose children were trafficked to Islamic State (IS) in Syria are revealed in a series of testimonies that show how grieving parents were initially treated as suspects and then abandoned by the authorities.One described being “treated like a criminal” and later realising that police were only interested in acquiring intelligence on IS instead of trying to help find their loved one. Another told how their home had been raided after they approached police for help to track down a missing relative. Continue reading...
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- The Independent Feed 15:48December 4, 2021Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ father and stepmother filmed tucking into ice cream as he starves in hallwayArthur’s father and stepmother who sentenced to more than 20 years in prison each
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- Huffington Post UK 15:31December 4, 202150 Cent Apologises To Madonna After She Accuses Him Of 'Trying To Humiliate' Her With Comments About Instagram Pics
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- Business Insider 15:26December 4, 2021Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle says travelers are not panicking over the Omicron variant as sales remain strong"I think consumers, as well as our employees, they're just not panicking and overreacting," Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle told Fox News.
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- Business Insider 15:02December 4, 2021Omarosa says that 'superspreader' Trump doesn't care if he exposed his staff or Secret Service agents to COVID-19Omarosa Manigault Newman told MSNBC that she thinks former President Donald Trump was a "superspreader" of COVID-19 within the White House.
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- The Guardian(UK) 14:42December 4, 2021Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: abuse cases missed due to cuts, Climbié inquiry chair warnsPeer who led inquiry into death of Victoria Climbié says social care cuts hitting child protection servicesA crossbench peer who led the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié has warned that “marked” cuts to social care funding had taken their toll on child protection services that could have saved Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.Herbert Laming said the reduction in funding for social care in the last 10 years meant children like Arthur, whose abuse and death has shocked the nation, are being missed. Continue reading...
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