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‘Incredibly worried:’ London’s Mayor fears fire, police & NHS staffing gaps due to Omicron spread
A further 341 people with Covid were in hospital in London on December 17, rising from 1,193 on December 10.
‘Little boy’s right to life:’ Mother ‘heartbroken’ after landfill site appeal loss
“Our village continues to stink and suffer, and my little boy still struggles to breathe. Hearing him cry ‘Mummy, mummy, I can’t breathe’ motivates me to do everything I can to fight for his health.”
Watch: Violent scenes as lockdown protestors clash with police
"I see the lockdown fan club is full of Christmas cheer," wrote Brendan May sarcastically.
Passenger rush to beat French entry deadline leads to long freight queues
Travellers are trying to beat the country’s incoming ban on UK tourists.
BBC’s Nick Robinson in Twitter spat with Telegraph editor over John Redwood…of all things
"You based an entire column on John Redwood’s inaccurate claim that he’d been cancelled & didn’t acknowledge he’d actually been on the programme," wrote an angry Nick Robinson.
Watch: PM appears to blame the public and media for his failings
"I’m sorry but it is genuinely funny that Boris Johnson‘s response to everything is “the media has spent too much time reporting on my various crimes," wrote Nish Kumar.
Circuit-breaker lockdown after Christmas would be too late, expert warns
“Now, you could have it after Christmas, the problem is after Christmas it’s probably too late, it’s probably by then we will have had a huge surge of infections with all the impact upon society."
Watch: Tory MP ‘openly laughed at’ when explaining Covid rules
Well this is embarrassing...
Astonished reactions as Express front page demands we put ‘faith in Boris’
"'We must put faith in Boris’ screams Tory fanzine aimed at the under 10s and the wildly gullible. Why. On. Earth. Would. We. Do. That?" Said one Twitter user.