19th December 2021

Financial support is vital, and we should have heard a plan from the Chancellor by now.Many people in low paid, self employed and insecure work can't afford to take time off to isolate and recover. Businesses are also more endebted and vulnerable than they were last year. https://t.co/SMcW400Eyo— Alison Thewliss 🧡 (@alisonthewliss) December 15, 2021

The WHO's head warns that the Covid variant is being underestimated, despite its potential impact.

Experts are investigating why the birds are dying but they believe it is unlikely to be avian flu.

The TV star and former model is given a 16-week suspended jail term for driving offences in Sussex.

Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane loses a challenge against rules that passports must state gender.

If 3 staff were disciplined then CCHQ knew there was a major breach of covid rules.Yet they carried on with Shaun Bailey as their Mayoral candidate. To be in charge of holding the Met to account. Including on enforcing Covid rulesCCHQ thought that was OK #OneRuleForThem https://t.co/fXHABnAboE— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) December 14, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Extraordinary image of raucous Christmas party thrown by Tory aides at party HQ during coronavirus restrictions last year.Party hats, drinks, an entire buffet - while we were all banned from meeting just one other person socially indoors.https://t.co/ykGoZZGckk— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 14, 2021

I keep seeing that Shaun quit, which fills me with joy only to see he quit one of his roles and is still a member of the London Assembly. He should resign from THAT role. As should anyone in elected office who broke the law and public trust.— Zainab (She/Her) (@ZayZee00) December 15, 2021

‘This government will do whatever it takes…’ so they’re reinstating the nursing bursary, changing pension tax for doctors, increasing numbers of Foundation and Specialty training posts, funding social care + MH services etc? No? Empty platitudes. Show us meaningful change. https://t.co/wa8tsAg2Im— Adam Calthrop (@TheEMboardround) December 15, 2021

Some patients say their third Covid vaccine dose has been wrongly recorded as a booster jab, resulting in them being turned away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

On Tuesday, the British government will release their review of the Human Rights Act, which came into force in 2000, and will seek to introduce new legislation that would restrict the ability of foreign national offenders to fight deportation.

Patients discharged from hospital are being looked after by live-in carers in three hotels in south of England

Police say initial inquiries into Petra Srncova's death suggest it is not suspicious.

Queues of people wait for jabs in England, and ordering rapid tests online is suspended as demand spikes.

Mrs Sacoolas returned to the US after diplomatic immunity was asserted on her behalf.

Labour peer and former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti told Byline Times that new amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill are designed to frame people peacefully demonstrating as terrorists