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Max Verstappen prevailed in his final-race shoot-out with Lewis Hamilton to claim the Formula One world championship after a dramatic final lap. The Red Bull driver looked out of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at various points but, after a safety car came on to deal with a Nicholas Latifi crash, he was given a reprieve. He changed his tyres during the delay and, after lapped cars were allowed […]

The Government does not have plans “at the moment” to vaccinate primary school-aged children, according to the Education Minister. Nadhim Zahawi said vaccination experts were still reviewing the evidence on what level of protection a coronavirus jab would give those aged under 12, and that a decision would await their verdict. It comes after the Sunday Times reported that healthcare staff have been told to start preparing for the mass […]

More Covid-19 measures may be needed to tackle the fast-spreading Omicron variant with the UK facing an “inevitable” large wave of infections, the chief medical adviser for the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. Dr Susan Hopkins said people will have to reduce social contact as much as possible, adding that lateral flow tests should be used before going out to meet anyone. Her remarks came as Education Secretary […]

A missing children’s hospital worker was last seen on a bus home after withdrawing money from a cashpoint, police have said. Petra Srncova, 32, a senior nurse assistant at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, has been missing since November 28. She is thought to have left work at about 7.45pm that Sunday and withdrew the money before getting on a bus towards Elephant and Castle, south London. A Metropolitan Police spokesman […]

Russia would face “severe consequences” if it invaded Ukraine, the Foreign Secretary has warned ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Liverpool. Liz Truss said the UK would aim to damage the Russian economy if it made an incursion into Ukraine, as she prepared to lobby allies during weekend talks to become less dependent on Moscow for cheap gas. During the meeting as part of the UK’s year-long […]

Some Treasury staff who worked on the Autumn Spending Review last year had office drinks while England was in lockdown, it has been reported. It comes after more than a week of controversy over allegations of rule-breaking festivities in Downing Street in the run-up to last Christmas. The Times reported that around two dozen civil servants were present for the drinks on November 25, 2020. The newspaper quoted a Treasury […]

They died between June 2014 to September 2015 Police mistakes “probably” contributed to the deaths of Stephen Port’s victims, an inquest jury has found. Officers in Barking, east London, missed repeated opportunities to catch sexual predator Port after he plied first victim Anthony Walgate with a fatal dose of date-rape drug GHB and dumped his body. Port struck three more times before he was caught, killing each of his young, […]

He was isolating after a positive case at Holyrood on Wednesday Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is no longer self-isolating after testing negative for Covid-19. Mr Ross took a PCR test after a member of his staff tested positive for coronavirus. The unnamed worker was in Holyrood, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, but received a positive result from a lateral flow test later that night. Mr Ross did a lateral flow test […]

That's according to a ruling from the High Court Julian Assange’s lawyers intend to take his case to the Supreme Court, his fiancee has said, after the High Court allowed the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US. Assange, 50, is wanted in America over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq […]