Exclusive: NHS Confederation proposes range of measures to help hospitals in England cope with severe staff shortagesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of patients will suffer worsening quality of care unless ministers…
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Harvey Parker: Met police recover body from River Thames
Student last seen before Christmas leaving nightclub near Charing Cross stationPolice searching for missing 20-year-old Harvey Parker have recovered a body from the River Thames believed to be the student.The Metropolitan police was alerted to reports …
Nurse ‘victimised’ for wearing cross at work was unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules
Mary Onuoha wins case against Croydon university hospital’s uniform policy that prohibited wearing necklacesA nurse who claimed she was victimised for wearing a necklace with a Christian cross at work has won a case for unfair dismissal.Mary Onuoha, a …
Johnson fumbles and flails under pressure from Rayner| john crace
At the first PMQ of the year, faced with tough questioning by Labour’s deputy leader, the prime minister threw truth to the windsIt’s an ill wind and all that. With Keir Starmer testing positive for Covid for the second time in a matter of months, it w…
UK Border Force could strike over Channel refugee ‘pushback’ plan
Staff may take industrial action over Priti Patel’s ‘reprehensible’ plan to turn back refugees, says PCS unionBorder Force officials could strike over Priti Patel’s “morally reprehensible” plans to turn back dinghies in the Channel, a union has said.Th…
Covid live: Italy, Netherlands and Turkey report record daily cases as Omicron surges across Europe
Italy reports a record 189,109 new cases; Dutch authorities announce more than 24,000 new cases; Turkey reports record 66,467 casesMacron rebuke to unvaccinated citizens incurs anger in parliamentChina’s locked down cities pay price of zero-Covid strat…
UK Covid live: pre-departure tests for travellers to England to be scrapped; 194,747 new cases reported
From 4am on Friday pre-departure tests no longer required for people arriving in England as UK records second highest number of daily casesAlmost 200,000 new Covid cases reported in UKFollow-up PCRs after positive LFT to be suspended in EnglandTravel s…
PMQs: Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner clash over energy prices and inflation
Prime minister talks up rising employment and makes false claims over inflationBoris Johnson and Angela Rayner have clashed over energy prices and the wider cost of living in the first prime minister’s questions of the year, during which Johnson made a…
Former peer Nazir Ahmed found guilty of serious sexual assault
Ahmed found guilty of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery when he was a teenager in 1970sThe former peer Nazir Ahmed has been found guilty of serious sexual assault against a young boy and the attempted rape of a girl when he was a teenager…