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Hancock admits test and trace is “not quite there” after system misses target for ninth week in a row
Sage targets isolating 80 per cent of contacts of coronavirus cases within 48-72 hours.
Non-EU countries drive net migration to highest level in four years
The Office for National Statistics published figures on Thursday.
Reactions as Fox News presenter defends teen charged with killing BLM protestors
"An innocent black guy is killed by police and Tucker Carlson calls him a thug. A guilty white guy murders two people and Tucker Carlson calls him a patriot."
Daily Express headlines go viral as reality dawns on the pro-Brexit paper
From Project Fear to Project Fact - has the Daily Express finally come to its senses?
‘Slap in the face’ as Hancock offers £13 a day isolation payments
“The figures that the Government have introduced are really a slap in the face for those people who sadly test positive and there is no incentive in my opinion for those people to self-isolate."
Boris Johnson branded a “joke” and a “hypocrite” as NHS workers protest outside Downing Street
A senior member of staff said workers are struggling so much on their current pay that some take the night bus to work because they cannot afford the tube.
A timeline: How the right wing media manufactured the Proms fiasco
The Proms fiasco had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter or 'wokeism', it was a story entirely engineered by the right wing media - and we all fell for it.
Asylum system ‘deeply inhumane’ says Sturgeon after Mercy Baguma’s death
“I find myself consumed with sadness but also with real anger at the death of Mercy Baguma and first and foremost my thoughts – and I’m sure the thoughts of all of us – go to her family and friends following her tragic death.”
The Other Prison Pandemic
Prisons have managed to avoid devastating outbreaks of Covid-19. But the measures used to contain the virus have exacerbated a burgeoning mental health crisis for inmates - and those they leave behind.