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Time for Dido Harding to go? Test and Trace reaches lowest ever proportion of contacts
"Dido Harding didn’t pip other candidates to the post at the interview. There weren’t any other candidates. She was just handed the job. This stuff is not fair and it's time it stopped."
Hancock labelled “corrupt” after handing another Covid contract to failing private healthcare company
Conservative MP Owen Paterson, who acts as a consultant for the firm, was party to a call between the company and the health minister responsible for coronavirus testing supplies.
Video – Woman arrested trying to take 97-year-old mother out of care home
The 97-year-old woman could be seen sitting in the passenger seat of a stationary car with a police vehicle parked in front of it.
‘Terribly, terribly sad’ Government slammed for lack of detail on lockdown care home visits
“I think it’s terribly, terribly sad that some people in this country will be pathetically grateful for the chance to go and look at the person they love through a window."
Eric Trump shares fake ‘ballot burning’ video as election protests continue
The city of Virginia Beach said that the papers are clearly sample ballots rather than the real thing - because they lack “bar code markings that area on all official ballots”.
Express blames Remainers as Biden scuppers hopes of the most “lucrative international partnership”
"Cheers you lot, well done, you must be so proud."
NHS chief confirms: GPs are gearing up to deliver vaccine before Christmas
Two vaccines are currently in phase three of clinical trials.
Cases worse than ‘gloom-mongers’ feared as 22 hospitals’ worth of Covid patients in England
“It turns out that everyone was wrong and that the situation looks much worse than even gloom-mongers like me had feared.”
Watch: Freudian slip as BBC anchor mistakenly reads out Margaret Thatcher tweet
"Let me just put up a tweet that Margaret Thatcher has just put out because… Theresa May, sorry."