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‘Fans make it and they always will’ – Sir Alex Ferguson on life after Man Utd
In a special interview with Clare Balding, Sir Alex reflects on life, family and football.
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AstraZeneca pauses trial of vaccine on children after concerns over rare blood clots
This programme exclusively reported that the UK’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, is looking closely at the planned roll out of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine among younger groups.
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‘The risk of death from Covid is greater than risk of blood clots’ – University of Edinburgh’s Prof Linda Bauld
Earlier we spoke to Professor of Public Health Linda Bauld and started by asking her about the relative risks of getting a blood clot from the vaccine.
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FactCheck: why are countries suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine?
AstraZeneca said the numbers of people reporting serious blood clotting disorders after receiving its Covid vaccine were “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size”.
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Argentina football legend Diego Maradona dies aged 60
He died of a heart attack after having brain surgery earlier this month.
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Conjoined twins: Doctors separate brothers joined at the head
Their parents were told that from their birth, the boys were unlikely to survive. Twin boys from Turkey, joined at the head.
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: facemasks, high blood pressure and a new disease in children
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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Coronavirus Debate: What does the future of the world look like?
As the world continues to fight the spread of coronavirus, what can it expect at the other end? Will we face a Great Depression, as many have predicted? Will globalisation, the root of much prosperity and inequality survive? Will there be a Green Revolution? Will nationalism triumph? And do our bizarre locked down lives give…
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A Chancellor is gone before he’s even delivered a Budget. That’s not meant to happen.
Dominic Cummings’ push to decide who works in the Special Adviser tier across government and his desire to lash the Treasury to No. 10 has led to one of the biggest reshuffle upsets in living memory.
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Police officer accused of baton strike on student protester cleared of gross misconduct
An independent panel ruled that PC Mark Alstons was not the officer who struck Alfie Meadows over the head.
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Growing division on future of NATO
There’s growing evidence of division among leaders on the future of NATO – as a war of words continued throughout the day between Presidents Trump and Macron.
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‘No evidence at all’ of Syrian hospital bombings, says new Russian Ambassador to the UK
With its leaders trading insults, the NATO summit being held in London next week could be a prickly affair.
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‘We were sidelined from Idris Elba project’, say female writers at Manchester International Festival
It’s billed as 18 extraordinary days of art, but the Manchester International Festival, which opens today, has been caught up in an row about who wrote one of the plays that is having its premiere there. “Tree” was the brainchild of Idris Elba, but two women writers who were involved in the early stages say…
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FactCheck: what is the row about transgender athletes all about?
Martina Navratilova has been accused of being “transphobic” after saying that some transgender women should not be allowed to compete against other women in sport. The tennis star has criticised International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, which say transgender athletes can compete as women if they reduce their testosterone levels. Trans activists have accused her of…
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Len McCluskey on Brexit and Labour’s future | Politics: Where Next? podcast
Union leaders headed into Number 10 this week as Theresa May’s cross-party Brexit talks continued. I grabbed half an hour with the man of the moment Unite leader Len McCluskey and picked his brains over Labour’s Brexit strategy and what a Corbyn government could look like. Listen and subscribe Listen to the episode ‘The Labour Party: Brexit…
