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Private members club brags of flying super-rich overseas for ‘luxury’ Covid vaccines
“It’s like we’re the pioneers of this new luxury travel vaccine programme," the group's founder boasted.
‘I’m really struggling mentally’ – Asylum seeker describes ‘unbearable’ conditions at military barracks
"Thirty-four of us share one shower and one toilet."
JVT: Vaccines will work against mutant Covid strains for ‘many months’
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said his “hunch” is that vaccines will not be “outwitted” by new variants for many months.
‘Nature, for us, is the life of the Indian’ – Forests almost twice the size of UK destroyed in global hotspots
“Nature, for us, is the life of the Indian. Why? It gives pure oxygen, it gives natural food to us, hunting, fishing, native fruits of the jungle, medicine, so, it is important to us, because we live off the jungle,”chief of the Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous peoples said.
Hospital patients to be sent to hotels to free up beds for Covid sufferers
“Our NHS is unable to cope with this level of demand for this duration and ultimately it will end in everyone’s health suffering.”
America carries out first execution of a female inmate since 1953
Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Matt Hancock made to squirm on GMB as Morgan asks: “Do you regret voting against free school meals?”
It comes as pictures of paltry food parcels sent out to vulnerable families were shared on social media.
‘Where has the rest of the food gone?’ – ‘Mean’ food parcel was depressing, says mother
“I said I was going to picture it because I didn’t think it looked like a lot and I could see the child’s realisation that this is what I’ve been given to eat for a week, and just the sense of sadness."
‘It’s free. Stop moaning’: Unsympathetic Mail readers react to ‘degrading’ food packages
The packages - which supposedly are worth £30 - have been described as "degrading", with one mother accusing the Government programme of treating disadvantaged families "like dirt".