Exclusive: NHS leaders understood to have been briefed on plans to vaccinate children, beginning from 22 September• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coveragePlans for Covid vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds across the UK are to …
New Thames tunnel will make London pollution worse, warn climate activists
Campaigners say Sadiq Khan’s support for a four-lane road under the river is at odds with his environmental aimsBurrowing deep under the Thames, Silvertown tunnel is scheduled as the first new road link across the capital’s river for 30 years. But, the…
A year that changed the world – and medical companies’ fortunes
While Covid sent many firms to the wall, others prospered by spotting opportunities, from test kits to mask coatingsThe pandemic has taken a heavy toll on business, gutting high streets as familiar names fell into receivership. But for some less well-k…
Statue celebrating the NHS’s Windrush nurses unveiled in London
Memorial commemorates health workers across Commonwealth who answered service’s decades-long call for recruitsA statue commemorating the 40,000 Windrush and Commonwealth midwives and nurses who have answered the call to work for the NHS has been unveil…
Coronavirus live news: UK records a further 156 deaths; thousands protest in Turkey against Covid measures
Overall death toll for UK now stands at 134,144; more than 2,000 demonstrate in Istanbul against coronavirus mandates including vaccinations and masksA year that changed the world – and medical companies’ fortunesAwaiting a ‘tsunami of Covid’: UK lectu…
What we expect from next week’s Apple event
We’ve been scouring the latest rumors and leaks and playing all of The Mamas and The Papas songs forward and backward to get the best possible picture of what we’re in store for with next Tuesday’s “California Streaming’” event. The invites, which went out a week in advance, don’t appear to give the game away […]
Ending universal credit boost will hit sickest areas the hardest, study shows
New research finds scrapping the £1,000-a-year benefit uplift will ‘trigger mental illness and poorer health’ for thousandsScrapping the £1,000-a-year boost to universal credit next month will trigger mental illness and poorer health for thousands of p…
UK medicines regulator approves Covid vaccines for use as booster shots
MHRA says third jab of Pfizer or AstraZeneca would be safe as JCVI meets to decide on booster programmeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK’s medicines regulator has granted emergency approval for the Pfizer and AstraZenec…
Treasury to decide how much of social care levy goes to NHS after 2025
In first three years, less than one pound in six will go to social care sector, then chancellor will allocateThe chancellor will decide what proportion of the £12bn annual proceeds from the health and social care levy will go to the NHS after 2025, leg…
Marietta resident completes massive puzzle
County Public Defender Ray Smith, a US resident of Marietta, Ohio, has completed a massive puzzle with over 40,000 pieces, according to a non-satirical news source. “When Smith was working on the 32,000-piece puzzle, Judge Janet Dyar Welch asked if he’…