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Major Covid fraud taskforce is being shut down - despite £3.4billion in lost money

HM Revenue and Customs has said it will close its dedicated taskforce for getting back wrongly-paid-out Covid cash - even though £3.4billion in fraud and mistakes is still outstanding

Daily Mirror

Big relief: India to allow e-visas to UK nationals again

NEW DELHI: India is all set to resume e-visa facility for UK citizens. This service was restored for almost all countries earlier this year barring a handful of nations, including the UK and Canada.

The Times of India

A liver disease drug could be repurposed to protect against COVID – new research

Almost three years into the pandemic, we’re still regularly seeing hundreds of thousands of new COVID cases recorded each day worldwide. In a new study, involving a combination of miniature organ models, donor organs, animals and humans, we’ve shown that a drug used to treat liver disease could be repurposed…

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‘It has hit Grimsby very hard’: health in decline after years of austerity

Tory council leader dismisses suggestions years of cuts have played role, but others beg to differ

The Guardian - UK

The Kiwi company putting toddlers on mountain bikes

A couple of Tauranga dads wanting to go mountain biking with their preschoolers founded an export business that just exploded during Covid

Newsroom.co.nz

Pfizer asks FDA to clear updated COVID shot for kids under 5

Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5

The Independent UK

‘Bonkers’ Covid plans, Boris’ vaccine dance and post-affair ‘misery’: 13 bombshells from Matt Hancock’s memoir

The former health secretary’s diaries lay the blame squarely on everyone — except himself and new partner Gina Coladangelo. Katie Strick picks his standout quotes from the extracts released so far

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The deadline for getting protected against this year's flu and Covid-19 in time for Christmas Day

"Most people are aware of how ill Covid can make you: they may have forgotten that flu can be a killer,” says one Greater Manchester GP

Manchester Evening News

Airline overbooks flight, splits up family and makes children fly across the Atlantic separately

‘I was just heartbroken that our family trip was being ruined like this,’ says mother

The Independent UK

Why 150,000 schoolchildren missed a cancer-preventing vaccine last year

The jab is offered to girls and boys aged 11 to 13 to prevent mouth, anal, cervical and penile tumours, but uptake plunged due to school closures during Covid

The Independent UK

Senior citizens are hit hard as COVID-19 surges across California

LOS ANGELES — There has been a troubling spike in coronavirus-positive hospital admissions among seniors in California, rising to levels not seen since the summer omicron surge.

Los Angeles Times

Novak Djokovic branded "person of principle" and backed to win 10th Australian Open

Novak Djokovic will play in the Australian Open this January after having this three-year visa ban overturned, with the Serbian star gunning for a 10th title at Melbourne Park

Daily Mirror

Mone’s Covid lobbying ‘extraordinarily aggressive’, claims Hancock

Ex-minister claims Tory peer intimated unnamed firm she was helping was being treated unfairly

The Guardian - UK

Can you go to work with Covid?

Or, more importantly, should you? Here’s everything you need to know

The Independent UK

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France 24

Biodiversity hotspot Gabon offers safe haven to endangered species

After a two-year delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the COP15 summit will open on December 7 in Canada to address the biodiversity crisis. We take a closer look at the African nation of Gabon, which the UN considers a leader in protecting the environment. Gabon is home to many…

Evening Standard

Black Friday delivers lowest consumer technology sales since 2017

Consumers seeking to cut energy bills sent sales of air fryers up 145% in a year, according to analysts GfK.

Edinburgh Live

New Midlothian 'Warm and Well' hubs offer free soup and hot drinks over winter

The two hubs are being funded with £1.36 million of Covid recovery money from Scottish Government and will be open throughout winter with free wi-fi and games available for people to pass the time when they drop in

Manchester Evening News

Kate Winslet praises ‘extraordinary’ Marcus Rashford

"Let me tell you exactly what that guy did during Covid"

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Help sought for COVID financial woes / Govt may require local authorities to help borrowers

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is considering making it a local government obligation to help households struggling to make ends meet as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Evening Standard

Hedge fund boss told PA to break lockdown rules to come to work

Hedge fund boss, Ramy Goldstein was found by a tribunal to have wrongly interpreted Covid lockdown rules

The Independent UK

Covid vaccine: When can I get my booster jab?

UK entering a new wave of the virus, experts warn

Bangkok Post

Singapore braces for fresh Covid wave, 'new variants of concern' from China

More Covid-19 infections and a new coronavirus wave are expected amid an increase in year-end travel and as more people take part in the festivities, but it will not be something that Singapore has not experienced, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said.

Daily Mirror

'I run a year round Christmas shop and I never get tired of festive tunes'

Most of us only indulge in Christmas preparations from November, maybe October, onwards but for the owners of The Little Christmas Shop, festive is a year round feeling

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock accuses Cummings of being ‘chatty rat’ who leaked lockdown news

Dominic Cummings was ‘frightening, damaging, negative force’, says ex-health secretary

Al Jazeera

How one Chinese Twitter user exposed COVID protests to the world

‘Teacher Li’ has amassed more than 800,000 followers with his posts highlighting COVID-related unrest in China.

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