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Thousands left without power in wake of Storm Eunice
Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power in the wake of Storm Eunice as forecasters said more wet and windy weather could hamper efforts to restore supplies.
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Storm Eunice: Travel across UK disrupted leaving passengers stranded
Storm Eunice has been causing massive disruption to travel across the UK.
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Storm Eunice: Woman killed by falling tree in north London
In north London, a woman in her 30s has been killed by a tree falling on the car she was travelling in.
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Pregnant women endangered by stretched maternity wards, whistleblower says
Women and babies are potentially being put in danger by stretched and understaffed maternity wards, a whistleblower has told Channel 4 News.
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Covid: Johnson hopes to ‘ride out Omicron’ without another lockdown
Schools are short of teachers, supermarkets are struggling to find staff, trains are cancelled and hospitals are declaring critical incidents.
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Omicron: New NHS Nightingale hubs to be set up in England
The health secretary has warned that the supply of Covid tests will be “constrained” for two weeks as people scramble to get hold of home testing kits and PCR appointments – although Wales has now promised to lend England 4 million kits to help meet demand.
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Covid: Working from home guidance comes into effect in England
The new advice to people in England to work from home has had an immediate impact on transport.
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Covid: 150 deaths a day in UK an ‘unacceptably high number’, says professor
We spoke to Professor Peter Openshaw of Imperial College London who’s also Vice Chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group.
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England A&E departments at record high with 10,000 patients waiting over 12 hours for treatment last month
High numbers of Covid cases are expected to put more pressure on the NHS – which is already under tremendous strain.
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Omicron Covid: Third case of variant confirmed in UK
A third case of the Omicron variant has been confirmed, with contact tracing now underway in Westminster and in Essex and Nottingham.
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New Omicron Covid variant in UK as two people test positive
Hours after it emerged that a more transmissible Covid strain had arrived in the UK, the prime minister announced new restrictions to try and slow its spread.
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‘Normal for governments to go through these patches’ – Jeremy Hunt on recent criticism
A shortage of trained staff is affecting every part of the NHS, and today a move to oblige the government to publish an independent assessment of staffing every other year was defeated in parliament.
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Rotherham child abuse: Police without right skills still taking on child sexual exploitation cases, says police watchdog
Police officers without the right skills or training expected to take the lead on child sexual exploitation cases in South Yorkshire – that’s not a situation from the past, but one of the problems identified today by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
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‘Serious failings’ in sickle cell care, say MPs
A new report by an all-party parliamentary group has found “serious failings” in the treatment of people with sickle cell disease.
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COP26 climate summit begins in Glasgow
As the conference formally began here on the banks of the Clyde, hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to the climate summit by train were stranded after a tree fell on the tracks halting services from London.