Day: November 10, 2020
Matt Hancock ambushed live on TV by Good Morning Britain
November 10, 2020To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Matt Hancock was ambushed live on air by Good Morning Britain on the 196th day of the Government’s refusal to be interviewed on the programme. He was outside BBC Broadcasting House in London when correspondent Nick Dixon […]
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NHS told to be ready to deploy COVID-19 vaccine from start of December
November 10, 2020The NHS has been asked to be ready to deploy a coronavirus vaccine from the start of December, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told Sky News. It was announced on Monday that a COVID-19 vaccine, being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, has been found to be 90% effective in preventing people from getting the virus. […]
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Redundancies hit record 314,000 as coronavirus take further toll on jobs
November 10, 2020A record 314,000 redundancies were recorded in the three months to September as the coronavirus took a further toll on jobs. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed the unemployment rate rose to 4.8%, its highest level since November 2016 and up from 4.5% the month before. ONS data for October also […]
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Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years
November 10, 2020It shows a silvery naked everywoman figure emerging free and defiantly from a swirling mingle of female forms and, thanks to a 10-year slog of fundraising, is the world’s only memorial sculpture to a woman known as the “mother of feminism”. “It will definitely start a conversation,” said the writer Bee Rowlatt, who has led […]
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