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Piers Corbyn tricked into taking £10,000 bung to stop criticising AZ vaccine
A pair of YouTube pranksters convinced Corbyn to take an envelope stuffed with £10,000... in Monopoly money.
Deliveroo and Uber offer discounts to young people getting Covid jabs
Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims are among the brands who will be offering incentives to encourage younger people to get vaccinated.
‘Despicable approach:’ Home Office set up fake website to deter asylum seekers from travelling to UK, it’s claimed
"Whenever I think that I’ve now seen it all when it comes to the Home Office, there is a new low. This one is particularly low though," Tweeted Prof Tanja Bueltmann.
Boris Johnson and wife Carrie expecting second child
Carrie Johnson also discussed fertility issues after suffering a miscarriage.
Court quashes acquittal of man who filmed Grenfell Tower bonfire and now faces retrial
The prosecution at the original trial argued that the footage, in which cardboard figures burned as the model went up in flames, was racist in showing black and brown characters representing victims of the Grenfell Tower blaze, which killed 72 people in 2017.
Costa: UK anti-vaxxers boycotting coffee chain over its vaccination policy in different country
"Makes me even more likely to keep using @CostaCoffee knowing that nutters like Lozza won't be allowed in. Well done #CostaCoffee," wrote one twitter user.
Councils lose active travel funding for ‘prematurely’ axing new cycle lanes
A number of councils reversed the schemes following vocal opposition by motorists.
Best responses as UK among 5 countries most likely to survive global civilisation collapse
'Buddy we aren't even surviving Brexit,' wrote one bemused Twitter user.
‘Got to be f*cking kidding me!’ Dismay as Latin offered in state schools to make language less ‘elitist’
Michael Rosen tweeted: "If you can read a bit of Latin you must be clever. If you are bilingual in English and Welsh, or English and Punjabi or English and pretty well any other modern language, you're not clever."