Amelia Jenne

The case against the government in England was brought by two women whose fathers both died in care homes in the spring of 2020 as the pandemic took hold.

Across the UK, the health service is struggling to cope with staff shortages and increased demand.

Don’t talk to the press and don’t make public your payoff – the terms of a contract being offered by P&O to sacked ferry staff, obtained by Channel 4 News.  

Protests took place across UK ports today, including Dover, against P&O Ferries’ decision to sack 800 staff.

“Your last day of employment is today” – sacked, in an instant and over Zoom.

Women’s rights campaigners have won a High Court victory over the Metropolitan Police, which threatened them with huge fines if they organised a demonstration during lockdown in memory of murdered Sarah Everard. 

There are about 70,000 Ukrainians living in the UK. They will have spent the past few weeks glued to their phones, getting news from loved ones.

In north London, a woman in her 30s has been killed by a tree falling on the car she was travelling in.

It’s been another day of shame for the Metropolitan Police force. Two serving and one former police officer have been charged with sending “grossly offensive” messages on WhatsApp. 

Dozens of people have been killed by flooding and mudslides. It is feared the death toll, currently 56, will rise rapidly.

Welcome to the brave new world of biotech and robotics – where people can interact with each other through time and space in ways which were once the stuff of science fiction.

The Conservative Party chairman has admitted there were “failings” at 10 Downing Street, claiming that Boris Johnson would seek to “address the underlying culture” that led to the partygate scandal. 

Every day brings new reports of more revelry in the building that ordered the rest of us not to socialise. 

Across the UK there have been another 142,000 cases in the last 24 hours, but while daily figures are falling the number of patients admitted to hospital continues to rise.

Despite the extreme pressure on the NHS and other essential services, Boris Johnson has suggested that  England’s limited level of restrictions is the right one, although he warned that it would be “absolute folly” to believe that the pandemic was over.