WATCH: Baroness Heather Hallett outlines damning findings from Covid report
The UK was “ill prepared” for the outbreak of Covid and planned for the wrong type of pandemic in the years before the worldwide outbreak, the damning first report of…
Jay Slater’s mum issues new appeal for help after return to UK
Jay Slater’s mother Debbie Duncan has asked for more public donations to a crowdfunding appeal in a drive to give her son “the send-off he deserves”. Duncan urged the public…
Fake or Fact: Is chocolate good for you?
Andrew Eborn’s “Fake or Fact” examines claims, misconceptions and disinformation spread across all forms of media every day. Fake or Fact is a popular regular feature on GB News and…
Housewife spared jail after bedbug poison kills girl who lived next door
A housewife has been spared jail for accidentally killing her 11-year-old neighbour with poisonous gas she used to exterminate bedbugs. Mother-of-two Jesmin Akter, 34, had illegally imported aluminium phosphide from…
Surgeons call for Welsh Government to make NHS waiting lists a ‘top priority’
Surgeons have called on the next Welsh First Minister to make cutting NHS waiting times a “top priority”, as figures hit another record high. The latest NHS Wales statistics have…
Train services to be brought into public ownership from early 2025 – minister
More train services are set to be brought under public ownership from “early next year”, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said. Effectively nationalising all train operation in Britain was a long-standing…
Army cadet accused of lying about psychotic symptoms cleared of murder
A man has been acquitted over allegations he murdered his stepfather and lied about voices in his head telling him to do it. Vladimir Ivashikin, then a 16-year-old A-level student,…
Key points in the first Covid-19 inquiry report
There were “several significant flaws” in pandemic planning in the UK before Covid-19 struck, according to the official probe into the disaster. UK Coivid-19 Public Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett…
Migrant dies and 71 others rescued in English Channel, French coastguard says
One migrant has died and a further 71 were rescued after their boat deflated in the English Channel, the French coastguard has said. Patrols off the coast of Gravelines in…
Welsh response to Covid ‘hampered by undue complexity’
The Welsh government’s response to the Covid pandemic was “hampered by undue complexity,” a public inquiry has found. In its first report into preparedness for a pandemic, the UK Covid-19…