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At least six killed in Turkey as wildfires sweep Europe
At least six people have been killed in wildfires which have swept along the Aegean coast in southern Turkey over the last four days.
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Big top pop-up: clinics offer Covid jabs in vaccination push
Pop-up vaccine centres are appearing this weekend at festivals and sporting events to attract more people to get vaccinated.
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Former UK Sport anti-doping director: ‘Until the penalties are a life ban, we are going to see athletes returning to compete again’
We’re joined by Michele Verroken, former Director of Ethics and Anti-Doping at UK Sport.
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FactCheck: What’s behind the vaccination slowdown?
The UK has some of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the world. But the rate has slowed in recent months. Why?
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Tim Renkow in Jerk: turning uneasiness into awkwardness
He’s a jerk and it’s fine not to like him. The latest series of Jerk, starring the stand-up comedian and actor Tim Renkow begins this week, and is based on a heightened version of his own experience of living with cerebral palsy.
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Syria: returning home for first time since civil war began
About 100,000 Syrians, out of four million refugees in Turkey, have been allowed temporary rights to visit their homeland during the Eid al-Adha holiday.
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Debate: How can the police tackle racial inequalities?
We spoke to the former Greater Manchester chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, and Parm Sandhu, who was the highest ranking female Asian police officer in the Met until she resigned in 2019 claiming systematic and long-term discrimination on grounds of her race and gender.
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Racial inequalities in policing 22 years after Macpherson report, say MPs
Policing is still riddled with racial disparities, say MPs – more than two decades after the Macpherson report into the Stephen Lawrence murder exposed the extent of “institutional racism” in the police.
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First Afghan interpreters evacuated to US
More than 200 former Afghan interpreters who worked alongside US forces have arrived at a military airbase near Washington DC, under a new visa scheme to help relocate them out of harm’s way.
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Labour MP Apsana Begum not guilty of housing fraud
Labour MP Apsana Begum has been cleared of housing fraud, saying the case against her had been driven by “malicious intent” and had caused “great distress and damage” to her reputation.
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Drug deaths in Scotland hit record levels
The number of drug deaths in Scotland has soared to record levels for the seventh year in a row, with more than 1,300 people losing their lives to drugs.
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‘Contact tracing app has been effective in the reduction of Covid cases’, says Prof John Edmunds
We spoke to Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and started by asking whether cases of the Delta variant had peaked.
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Starmer calls for earlier end to self-isolation rules for double jabbed in England
Businesses up and down the country have been struggling to fill shifts as hundreds of thousands of workers get pinged by the NHS Test and Trace app and told to self-isolate.
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Pregnant women urged to get Covid jab by England’s chief midwife
Pregnant women in England are being urged to get the Covid vaccine, as new research suggests they are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill with the Delta variant.
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Freedom Day’s winners and losers
Today on The Fourcast we speak to a representative of the hospitality industry, to ask if “Freedom Day” can save businesses on the edge, and a chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patient, who’s been forced to go back into shielding.
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Queen should not be able to seek to amend legislation in her personal interests, says campaigner
There’s growing controversy in Scotland over the Crown’s involvement in changing legislation that’s designed to cut carbon emissions.
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‘Super committee’ to examine government’s Online Safety Bill
A new “super committee” of MPs has been set up to examine the government’s Online Safety Bill, which aims to crackdown on online harms such as hate speech and revenge porn by threatening tech companies with huge fines.
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Infected Blood Inquiry: Families accuse Ken Clarke of being ‘arrogant’ and ‘pompous’
The families involved in the Infected Blood Inquiry have once again shown their anger towards Ken Clarke by tabling a question where they called him “arrogant, pompous and contemptuous of people who have suffered so much”.
