The White House has voiced strong concern over a week of riots in Northern Ireland, with President Joe Biden joining the British and Irish prime ministers in a call for calm, according to The Guardian.Read more on the story here
Boris Johnson has urged people to keep coming forward for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab despite a study into the vaccine’s use on children being paused over blood clot concerns in adults, The Guardian reports.It points out that scientists stress side effects are extremely rare, with “great” benefits in protecting against COVID.
Boris Johnson has urged people to keep coming forward for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab despite a study into the vaccine’s use on children being paused over blood clot concerns in adults, The Guardian reports.It points out that scientists stress side effects are extremely rare, with “great” benefits in protecting against COVID.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is looking into the feasibility of legalising cannabis, according to The Guardian.
The Guardian says a new scheme in England, offering everyone two rapid COVID-19 tests each week from Friday, is billed as a way of tracking outbreaks of potentially vaccine-resistant variants of the virus.
Patients could be waiting up to two years for vital operations by the time of the next election because of a “truly frightening” backlog of care caused by the pandemic, The Guardian reports.
Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has called a government race report a “green light” for racists, The Guardian reports.
Ofsted’s chief inspector had asked for more powers to check for abuse in private schools but was ignored by ministers, according to The Guardian.
A Conservative MP has called for allegations of sexual misconduct in schools to be investigated by Ofsted as part of a “deep dive” inquiry to establish why complaints by pupils of rape, harassment and assault are not taken seriously, reports The Guardian.
