Scotland’s traditional Hogmanay celebrations are to be cancelled and live sports will be “effectively spectator-free” for three weeks from Boxing Day as part of new Covid-19 restrictions, Nicola Sturgeon has
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A “well-loved” young paramedic took her own life during the national lockdown after being shamed on Facebook for littering, an inquest has heard. Charlotte Cope, from Gelli, in Rhondda Cynon
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Transmission of the Omicron variant is “eye-wateringly high”, though there is still uncertainty about its impact on the NHS and wider services, a leading expert has said. Sir Jeremy Farrar,
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A Welsh health board has apologised after cancelling all non-urgent operations with immediate effect to concentrate its efforts on the booster rollout programme. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, in north
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A man who killed a three-year-old girl while she was in his care after becoming angry that she had not finished her lunch has been jailed for 11 years. Paul
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A nursing student who was working three full-time jobs and had “fallen asleep” at the wheel when she killed a 13-year-old girl has been jailed. Gardene De Carvalho, 43, of
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A man who beat a 93-year-old widow to death at a care home has been locked up in hospital indefinitely. Alexander Rawson, 63, used a crutch to attack “kind and
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Figures suggesting that one in three NHS staff in London could be off work by New Year’s Eve have been branded “catastrophic” by a nursing leader. The possible staff absence
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People have been urged to reduce contact with others in the run-up to Christmas in a bid to limit the spread of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus. Stephen Reicher,
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Ministers have reportedly pushed back against calls from scientific advisers for new measures to tackle the Omicron variant before Christmas. Confirmed cases of the faster-spreading strain have risen by more
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