The health secretary has played down criticism from Dominic Cummings, who described the Department of Health and Social Care as a “smoking ruin” in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Matt Hancock said the UK’s rollout of COVID-19 jabs was a “huge team effort” by the health department, the vaccine taskforce and the NHS
Month: March 2021
Uber’s announcement of basic employment rights for its drivers comes after a long-running court battle that could force a shake-up in the so-called gig economy. What is the gig economy? The term describes a way of working where work is assigned on a short-term or job-by-job basis via platforms such as Uber, a taxi app,
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to block vaccine exports to the UK and other countries with markedly higher rollouts of coronavirus jabs. The EU’s delivery of COVID vaccines has been slower compared with the UK rollout, where nearly 25 million adults have now had their first dose. With the bloc facing
Demi Lovato says she was raped when she was just 15 and working for the Disney Channel in the late 2000s. Speaking in her forthcoming docuseries – Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil – the 28-year-old said: “I lost my virginity in a rape. I called that person back a month later and tried to
For the DIR, for the next few weeks we’re only interested in one thing here and one thing only – and that’s catching bent coppers. Line Of Duty fans, almost two years since we last visited AC-12, the wait is finally over. Not since Game Of Thrones’ controversial swansong has there been such feverish anticipation
New rules to end ‘rewards for failure’ in boardrooms are to be unveiled by ministers this week with the release of a long-awaited white paper on audit and corporate governance reform. Sky News has learnt that the consultation document, which will be published on Thursday, will propose a further review that could make it mandatory
Detectives investigating the indecent assault and murder of a man at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore 20 years ago have arrested a 50-year-old man in Cheshire. Stuart Lubbock, 31, was discovered in the TV presenter’s pool on 31 March 2001 after a party at his then home in Roydon, Essex. Despite attempts to save
Funeral provider Dignity swung to a £19.6m loss last year despite a surge in the number of deaths amid the coronavirus pandemic. It said the total UK death toll of 663,000 in the year to 25 December, 14% up from 2019, was the highest since 1918. Dignity carried out a record 80,300 funerals last year,
A rare songbird’s existence is under threat because it is failing to learn how to sing love songs, new research suggests. The distinctive black and yellow regent honeyeater – once common across Australia – is now a critically endangered species with just a few hundred of the songbirds left in the wild – and many
Companies in the UK “still cannot guarantee that their supply chains are free from forced labour” from the Uighur people in Xinjiang in China, a House of Commons select committee has warned. The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee also called on the government to impose sanctions on Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses
Eight people have been killed in shootings at massage parlours in and around Atlanta, Georgia. A 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out all three shootings has been arrested. The attacks began around 5pm local time, when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlour in a strip mall near a rural area in Acworth,
An independent review into historical sexual abuse is set to be published by the Football Association (FA) later. Conducted by Clive Sheldon QC, it will look at how the FA, clubs and individuals handled reports of abuse made to them between 1970 and 2005, and make recommendations on safeguarding. Sky News sports correspondent Martha Kelner
Uber is to treat its 70,000 drivers in the UK as workers, meaning they will be entitled to a number of basic employment protections. The ride-hailing app lost a Supreme Court case last month, with a judge ruling that drivers should be classed as workers, not as independent third-party contractors. This means they have access
Dominic Cummings, the former Downing Street aide described as Boris Johnson’s “Rasputin”, is to break his silence following his dramatic departure from Number 10 late last year. The prime minister‘s former de facto chief of staff, who quit in a bitter power struggle involving Mr Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds, is appearing before a high-powered committee
The Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is safe, the health secretary has said, urging people in the UK: “If you get the call, get the jab.” Germany, France, Italy and Spain became the latest European countries to suspend use of the COVID-19 jab on Monday after reports of some people suffering blood clots after being vaccinated. But
Public Health England is investigating a new COVID variant – first reported in the Philippines – after two cases were found. The variant – VUI-21MAR-02 (P3) – has been designated a variant under investigation, rather than a variant of concern such as the Manaus strain. In a statement, the health authority said: “On 9 March
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