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Tory MP tells firefighters using food banks to ‘learn how to budget’
“You are a public servant that should be helping people instead of making grubby suggestions about how they should live their lives", one person said in response.
‘No signs’ new XBB variant causes more severe illness
Spooked by the recent emergence of the XBB variant? A collective of health experts have now set-out to ease concerns.
‘Ask nicely and I’ll save your son’: Vile Andrew Tate tweet resurfaces
"Do you feel like a failure that the amount you need to help your own son is less than a quarter than I spent on one of my 5 cars?"
Government urged to declare national NHS major incident
The last time such a declaration was made was in March 2020 as Covid-19 began sweeping through hospitals.
Anti-GP violence ‘on the rise’ – as patient TRASHES waiting room
A leading GP has pinned the blame on 'negative media coverage', after an irate patient destroyed a waiting room in Derby.
Croatia rings in New Year by switching to euro and entering Schengen area
"This goes beyond eliminating border controls, it is the final affirmation of our European identity,” Davor Bozinovic said.
Extinction Rebellion ‘to temporarily shift away from public disruption’
The climate activists said they are making a ‘resolution to temporarily shift’ from disruption tactics because ‘very little has changed’.
Senior medic advises people against doing long runs as NHS grapples with ‘twindemic’
Soaring flu admissions and the impact of Covid is “hitting staff hard” and threatening to overwhelm hospitals.
Reaction as British passport holders face long queues at Geneva Airport
"The ultimate metaphor for Brexit: a soul-sapping, boring, regressive waste of everyone’s time while the rest of the world overtakes us," Sarah Murphy said.