The government and institutions are under threat from a “sophisticated” actor, PM Scott Morrison says.
Read More »UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model
Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.
Read More »Coronavirus: South Asian people most likely to die in hospital
Patients are younger than white counterparts and far more likely to have diabetes, analysis shows.
Read More »Coronavirus: ‘Outbreak’ reports in Leicester and Cleckheaton
Leicester sees hundreds of confirmed cases in two weeks, while an outbreak in Yorkshire is reported.
Read More »Bank and Church of England apologise for historic slavery ties
The Bank said it was “inexcusable” that former senior figures had profited from the slave trade.
Read More »Coronavirus: Calls for awareness of long-term effects
Researchers want to establish if “post-Covid syndrome” should itself be recognised as an illness.
Read More »Vera Lynn, singer and British forces’ ‘sweetheart,’ dies aged 103
British singer Vera Lynn, whose sentimental ballads during World War II provided the soundtrack for the Allied war effort, has died at the age of 103, according to a statement from the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity on Thursday.
Read More »Macron meets Johnson, at a safe distance, for anniversary of de Gaulle’s wartime speech
French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to London on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a historic World War Two speech with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the first major face-to-face meeting between two European leaders since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More »Turkey and USA to cooperate on Libya, says Turkish FM
Turkish foreign and defense ministries and intelligence will soon work with US counterparts on Libya, Turkey ’s top diplomat said on Thursday. Speaking at a webinar with the US-based Turkish American National Steering Committee, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his US counterpart Donald Trump to …
Read More »A letter to authorities from John Tossell family
The family of John Tossell have formally written to the UK and Greek governments, as well as UK and Greek police departments in regards to John’s disappearance. The letter, below, sets out the timeline of John’s disappearance, including where he was last seen and what he was doing. The family …
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