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David Vyner Brooks

1:00 pm 4:00 pm

Current show

David Vyner Brooks

1:00 pm 4:00 pm

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UK News

Page: 60

A jab made by the US firm Novavax could become the fourth vaccine to be approved in the UK after promising data from a late-stage trial emerged.

The UK’s coronavirus reproduction number – known as R – is between 0.7 and 1.1, according to the latest estimate.

People from ethnic minority backgrounds are far less likely to take the COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data.

A fire has broken out at a former army barracks in Kent where hundreds of asylum seekers have been living.

A huge new theme park on the banks of the River Thames in Kent has moved a step closer to reality after its application was given the government go-ahead for a public inquiry.

Prisoners in England should start being offered coronavirus vaccines from today, the prisons minister has told Sky News.

The UK is bracing for snow and downpours in the coming days, with the Met Office issuing weather warnings and telling people to prepare for travel disruption.

The Duchess of Cambridge says homeschooling has left her “exhausted” during lockdown – and joked that her children were horrified when she became their hairdresser.

With schools unable to open until March at the very earliest, many pupils, parents and teachers are despairing at the thought of remote learning being extended.

UK adults are couch-surfing their way through the third coronavirus lockdown and are less happy than they were during the first, a major study suggests.