Professor Chris Whitty has said he will take any Covid-19 vaccine offered to him, adding it is a “society” and “political” decision as to when restrictions are lifted. England’s chief
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A paranoid schizophrenic woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl with a craft knife in a park on Mother’s Day has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a
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A teenager who threw a young boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern has had his appeal against his 15-year minimum prison term dismissed. Jonty Bravery (pictured), 19,
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A 90-year-old grandmother has become the first person in the world to receive Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme. Margaret Keenan (pictured) received the jab at
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Campaigners are threatening the Government with legal action over guidance which they claim imposes a “blanket ban” on elderly care home residents making visits to family and friends at Christmas
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People over 80 should not be worried if they are not called for the Covid-19 vaccine this month as the vast majority will have to wait until the new year
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Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Fry, Brian Cox and Dame Harriet Walter have called on the Government to fulfil its election promise to double investment in dementia research. During the last
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A victim of trafficking has been left “unemployed, dehumanised and penalised” as a result of the Home Office’s “astonishing” delay in deciding whether she has leave to remain in the
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Care home providers have appealed for patience after the Government said a mass roll-out of rapid result tests would enable residents to receive visitors by Christmas. More than a million
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Doctors may have made blanket decisions about “do not resuscitate orders” without the input of patients or their families during the first wave of the pandemic, the care watchdog has
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