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One intensive care consultant called for Wales to go into immediate lockdown to help deal with a surge in patients

Matt Hancock announced that Greater London as well as parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will face Tier 3 restrictions from Wednesday.

Home Secretary Priti Patel made the announcement on Monday.

The body of Roberts Buncis was found on Saturday in Fishtoft, near Boston, Lincolnshire Police said.

The duchess has backed Clevr Blends, and Oprah Winfrey went on to promote the brand on Instagram.

In one school, inspectors were told that nearly 95% of students had at least one coronavirus-related absence this term.

The shadow home secretary could be heard shouting ‘absolute rubbish’ as Priti Patel spoke.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Greater London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will face England’s toughest restrictions from Wednesday.

Arlene Foster also called for further clarity on implementation of the protocol agreed last week between the British Government and the EU.

GCHQ chief says UK is ‘working at pace’ with US partners in government to understand cyber threat.

The Swedish telecoms firm says its investment in rolling out 5G across the UK will create hundreds of new jobs by 2022.

The supermarket chain said it will be deploying extra security on the doors of all its 421 large superstores between December 19 and December 24.

The phrase ‘boys will be boys’ is still commonly heard in education when boys misbehave, researchers found.

Universal Credit should be extended and the two child limit should be abolished, says Gordon Brown.

The Health Secretary will use a Commons statement to confirm the move.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot urged ministers to do ‘whatever it takes’ to put improving health and wellbeing at the ‘heart’ of all Government policy.

The developers of the Sputnik V vaccine say they will create a report to submit for accelerated registration in various countries.

The Paris-based organisation said the UK economy was 9.6% smaller at the end of the third quarter in 2020 than at the same point last year.

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming says the UK is ‘operating even more closely with our European colleagues than we were at the point of the referendum’.

Deloitte has been appointed to the business, which was rescued by the Scottish Government in 2017 and bought by DF Barnes the following year.