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Bereaved families could be asked to pay Covid funeral fines
It comes a week after a funeral director from Mansfield was fined £10,000 for holding a service in breach of coronavirus restrictions.
Man who refused to be ‘muzzled’ and labelled Chris Whitty ‘Dr Death’ dies of Covid-19
His family say Facebook groups peddling conspiracy theories were "complicit in his death".
Laurence Fox asks who he should bill for his ‘teachers salary’ as schools remain shut
The actor is estimated to be worth around $4 million.
Another U-turn? PM ditches plans to give chief Brexit negotiator top national security role
An announcement last July that he would assume the key post of NSA led to criticism because, unlike previous holders of the post, he is a political adviser rather than a career civil servant, and lacks security experience.
If only? UK should learn from other countries, says Briton quarantined in Australia hotel
“The UK should use the example of other places. There are already systems in place, so why recreate the wheel?”
‘Burned out’, ‘fatigued’ and ‘desperately sad’ – NHS staff after year of Covid
“So we’re struggling and we’re trying to get through as much as we can every day, and our staff get a huge amount of abuse on the phone… people are really rude to our staff, really quite abusive."
Brexit: Northern Ireland Protocol ‘obstructs free movement of military’
“This shows how ludicrous and unacceptable the outworking of the Northern Ireland Protocol are in practice."
Billionaire hedge funder says paying his ‘fair share’ of tax is a ‘bullsh*t attack on the rich’
“It’s just a way of attacking wealthy people, and I think it’s inappropriate,” Leon Cooperman - who was convicted for insider trading in 2016 - said.