The UK’s chief medical officers have warned of a ‘material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed’ in the next 21 days as the mutant Covid strain wreaks havoc across the country. Parts of the health service are under ‘immense pressure’, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said …
Read More »Two serving postmasters will join the board of the Post Office as it seeks to repair relations with local managers and move on from the IT scandal that led to some being wrongly imprisoned. The state-owned enterprise will appoint two new non-executive directors in the spring, in a move that …
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Amazon has moved into selling medicine in the US “I think the impact would be huge,” says Ahsan Bhatti, owner of online pharmacy Quick Meds. He is concerned about the prospect of online giant Amazon moving into the pharmacy business in the UK. “I’m worried. They’ll have a massive marketing …
Read More »Cosmetic surgery is the latest lockdown trend. Apparently many people who’d been umming and ahhing over whether to submit to the scalpel have gone for it in recent months. One factor is they don’t have to worry about colleagues seeing them as they convalesce, all black eyes and scar tissue. …
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“In the US, companies like CVS and Walmart negotiate drug prices all the time, and they have a fairly significant amount of market power. They’ve been able to create monopolies on certain drugs, making it more difficult for consumers to access drugs if you’re not shopping with them. If Amazon …
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Two staff members at the delivery office in Orton Southgate have tested positive for the virus, with several more self-isolating as a result. The Peterborough Telegraph has also been informed that there has been a confirmed case at the sorting office in Werrington which has led to at least 15 …
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A New York City man allegedly attacked multiple people on Saturday, leaving one unconscious and another with a broken arm, before carjacking two vehicles. The bat-wielding man was identified as 43-year-old Bryan Thompson. According to the New York Post, Thompson started his alleged violent spree around 7pm on Saturday in …
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Coins marking Queen’s 95th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Decimal Day are among those unveiled for 2021 by the Royal Mint New special coin released to celebrate the Queen’s birthday uses phrase from her first televised address Her Majesty told the British public in address in 1957 that she …
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Rex Whistler’s family has intervened in a racism row over the artist’s giant mural in the Tate by defending the controversial piece as a “work of the past”. Descendants of the late British artist have issued a joint statement suggesting it was “perhaps unsurprising” that Whistler painted Oriental figures on …
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