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The coronavirus pandemic is “fuelling long-term changes” to the threat posed by online sexual abusers, with children now facing “significant new risks”, according to the country’s leading children’s charity.
Boohoo is to pay £25.2m for Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton in a deal set to catapult the fashion brands to an online-only future and result in 2,450 job losses.
GCSE and A-level students have been hardest hit by COVID-19, according to the UK’s biggest study into the impacts on young people.
Soldiers at a British military base in Kenya are being fed rations after they were placed in “enhanced isolation” following a COVID-19 outbreak.
Nearly £30,000 in fines have been handed out to a group who had an illegal shisha gathering in Birmingham.
A diagnostics company in Derby has become the first British manufacturer to supply COVID-19 tests to the government.
More heavy snowfall is forecast across parts of England as Storm Darcy continues to trigger UK-wide weather warnings.
The mother of a 22-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in a “barbaric” attack in north London has called on the prime minister for help.
A 70-year-old grandfather from Oldham has become the oldest person to row unassisted across the Atlantic Ocean – raising more than £640,000 for charity.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against the South Africa variant of COVID-19, researchers have found.
