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People ‘will die’ due to care home staff shortages, warns care provider
Care providers have told Channel 4 News that elderly and vulnerable people “will die” due to an unprecedented shortage of staff.
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Care sector recruitment crisis ‘worse than it’s ever been’, says UK Homecare Association CEO
Jane Townson is chief executive of the UK Homecare Association, which represents providers of care in peoples own homes.
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Covid: First vaccine booster jabs begin in England and Wales
The vaccine booster rollout has begun with third jabs being offered to people in care homes, the over 50s, frontline health and social care staff and vulnerable people.
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China and France criticise UK-US-Australia submarine pact
Aukus sounds like a creature from gothic sci fi. It is in fact the name of the submarine security pact signed by Australia, the UK and the US.
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Submarine pact ‘manifestation of global Britain’, says former UK national security adviser
We’re joined from Washington by Richard Fontaine, who was foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign,
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Grenfell: Victims visit Milan in search of a fitting memorial
Amid those ongoing concerns about cladding, a recent tower block fire in Milan has raised fresh concern about unsafe buildings. The fire at the 18-storey block has been likened to Grenfell by the city’s mayor.
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Grenfell: Further deadly cladding fires ‘a possibility’, says London Fire Brigade Commissioner
We spoke to the commissioner of the London Fire Brigade Andy Roe. He was the senior firefighter who ended up reversing the policy of telling residents to stay inside Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire.
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Syrians seek solace in ancient tradition of horse racing
In the past 10 years Idlib in North East Syria has become synonymous with war and resistance to the Assad regime.
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SpaceX launch makes history as four amateur astronauts orbit Earth
According to the experts in these things, the holiday of the future could involve hurtling around the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour. Sickbag included.
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Emma Raducanu’s rise: only just the beginning
There’s the impossible and then there’s the completely unbelievable.
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Australian wildfires released more CO2 than annual emissions of Germany, say scientists
From Greece to Australia, California to Siberia: for the last year wildfires have wrought havoc around the world, devastating communities and land. But their impact isn’t measured just in the destructive force of the flames. Scientists in the Netherlands investigating last year’s Australian fires have discovered that far more harmful carbon dioxide was released than…
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MPs back non-binding motion to cancel universal credit cut
MPs voted this evening to back a Labour motion to cancel the £20 a week cut in universal credit, but it was something of a hollow victory, as the motion is non-binding. The uplift, which was brought in to support families during the pandemic, will be phased out from September. The Department for Work and…
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Inflation rise “not as serious as the headline figures” suggest, says, economist
We were joined by Sarah Hardy, from the North Brewing Company, and Mark Rhodes, Professor of Financial Economics at Leeds Beckett University.
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UK inflation sees record rise as price of food soars
There are signs of hope of a post- pandemic bounceback. But it’s not been without challenges – will today’s inflation hike be another one? It comes as the government presses ahead with its plan to end the £20 a week uplift to universal credit for millions. That’s money out of individuals’ pockets, of course, but…
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Simone Biles and other gymnasts give evidence to Senate in Larry Nassar assault probe
The US gold medallist Simone Biles and three fellow gymnastics stars have begun giving evidence at the Senate Judiciary Committee, as part of their investigation into Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor convicted of sexually assaulting or abusing more than 150 girls and women. At times, overcome with emotion, Ms Biles told the committee…
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Shamima Begum makes appeal to return to UK to appear in court
Shamima Begum, who left east London as a schoolgirl to join the Islamic State, has appealed to be allowed back into Britain to appear in court, she insists, to refute claims that she’d been involved in terrorism. Speaking from a camp in Syria, the 22-year-old said she regretted every decision she’d made and would “rather…
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Afghanistan: Hazara minority fearful of future under Taliban rule
Dozens of female footballers and their families have managed to escape from Afghanistan across the border to Pakistan, including one group who’d been in hiding after their homes were burned down and some relatives were captured by the Taliban. But there are entire communities left behind who are now living in fear, like the Hazara…
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More women in cabinet gives ‘great deal of encouragement’, says Tory MP Caroline Nokes
We spoke to Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who knows something about what it’s like to be sacked by Boris Johnson, having been dropped by him in 2019.
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Williamson ‘should have been sacked a long time ago’, Conservative Home founder says
We were joined by columnist and founder of the Conservative Home website, Tim Montgomerie, and Caroline Slocock, who as a civil servant was private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and John Major
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Boris Johnson reshuffles cabinet as Williamson sacked and Raab replaced by Truss
A wide-ranging reshuffle has been long promised in government, and today it finally arrived. Boris Johnson promoted Liz Truss to be foreign secretary in place of Dominic Raab. His consolation prize is to be deputy prime minister. There are at least three new faces in the cabinet, including Nadine Dorries, who becomes culture secretary. But…
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FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
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Miami’s ‘climate gentrification’
Where the rich move to safer ground and force other communities to bear the brunt of the climate disaster.
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Covid vaccine: Why Nicki Minaj is calling out Boris Johnson on Twitter
A bizarre war of words has broken out between the prime minister and his chief medical adviser on the one hand and Nicki Minaj on the other.
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Debate: How will schools handle the vaccine rollout for 12-15 year olds?
We’re joined by Sir John Townsley, the Chief Executive of The Gorse Academies Trust, which runs 12 schools, and Laura Edwards, a parent of a pupil at this school.
