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'It feels great!' - Newcastle restaurateur Terry Laybourne on reopening St Vincent for first time since Covid

Top city chef and 21 Hospitality Group owner Terry Laybourne talks about the March 9 re-launch of quayside restaurant St Vincent, the effects of the pandemic, the cost of living crisis and Newcastle's current dining scene

Chronicle Live

Matt Hancock hit out at Rishi Sunak amid concerns over Eat Out to Help Out Covid scheme

The details emerged in the latest tranche of leaked messages from the former health secretary, published by the Daily Telegraph

Manchester Evening News

Matt Hancock's 41-hour battle to save career after Gina Coladangelo affair revealed

Disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock scrambled to save his political career in the hours after footage of him kissing aide Gino Coladangelo during the Covid pandemic

Daily Mirror

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‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid

Whether it’s a terrorist attack or Donald Trump becoming US president: how do you live with being the person who foresaw a cataclysmic event?

The Guardian - UK

There was a time when I wanted to quit acting: Mahira Sharma

Mahira Sharma, who rose to fame after Bigg Boss 13 three years ago, has been away from the limelight for a while. Ask her about it and she says, “I haven’t consciously stayed away. It just happened that after I did BB in 2020, the pandemic struck. I have done…

The Times of India

'Government's Covid shambles laid bare amid Matt Hancock's WhatsApp message mayhem'

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

All COVID-19 origin theories remain on the table, WHO leader says

The World Health Organization said all hypotheses for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic are still on the table, after U.S. authorities this week backed the theory that the virus originated from a lab.

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Latest WhatsApp leaks reveal Hancock and Sunak clashed over UK lockdown policy

Leaked messages appear to show former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock were at loggerheads during the pandemic over the extent of Tory lockdown measures

Daily Mirror

Hancock mocked Eat Out To Help Out amid concerns about virus spread

Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak clashed over the course of the pandemic on Covid restrictions and the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

The Independent UK

Nikki Haley declares ‘wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic’ as she bashes Don Lemon

The presidential candidate sidesteps Trump

The Independent UK

WHO Still Working to Identify the Origins of COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) is still working to identify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its director general said on Friday, after a US agency was reported to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by a Chinese laboratory leak. "I have written to and spoken with high-level…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Did Boris Johnson ‘follow the science’ on Covid? He couldn’t even do the maths

Leaked WhatsApps reveal his ignorance needing constant correction by advisers, says Kit Yates, director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail to raise stamp prices by 'record breaking' amount in April

Royal Mail has said the decision to up the price was made after "careful consideration" and in light of the 25% drop in letter volumes since the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson may have misled Parliament over ‘partygate’, MPs say, as new picture emerges of ex-PM next to champagne

Privileges Committee published initial report including some previously unseen photos of Downing Street parties

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OPINION - These WhatsApp leaks: yet again more heat than light on lockdowns

To lock down, to not lock down, when, for how long, what tier and what level of financial support, masks at school, outside, or only on crowded undergrounds? This was where debate raged during the pandemic. In every home, on What’s App, over Zoom, between colleagues and family, doctors and…

Birmingham Post

Brewers that took risks during Covid became more resilient, researchers find

Studies led by Northumbria University also found urban-based breweries fared better during the pandemic

Evening Standard

The 10 most excruciating leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

The more than 100,000 leaked texts shed light on the Government’s haphazard handling of the pandemic. Ethan Croft has combed through the data and dug out the most salacious

Salon

FBI director believes lab leak theory

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, fanned the flames of speculation that blame the Chinese government

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Daily Mirror

Tragic faces of kids killed in lockdown as UK faced 'pressure cooker' care crisis

Government statistics show that between April 2020 and March 2021 that 223 children died in instances where abuse or neglect is known or suspected

The Conversation

Tabloid newspapers are seen as sensationalist - but South Africa's Daily Sun flipped that script during COVID-19

Tabloid journalism usually refers to short, easily readable and mostly human-interest news, presented in a highly visual and sensationalist style. “Tabloidisation” has become shorthand for the deterioration of journalistic standards.

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: How Isabel Oakeshott became the week’s main character

In today’s newsletter: The journalist who ghostwrote Matt Hancock’s pandemic memoir – then exposed over 100,000 texts he entrusted to her

The Guardian - AU

Australian university sector makes record $5.3bn surplus while cutting costs for Covid

Department of Education figures reveal all but three universities reported a surplus, including $1bn for the University of Sydney

Daily Mirror

Two-faced Tories give key workers no recognition, praise or reward post-pandemic

The only people who failed to appreciate this were Matt Hancock and the then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who, like silly schoolboys, sent puerile messages in which Williamson accused teachers of being lazy

Daily Mirror

Ministers joked about locking up travellers to UK in quarantine hotels during pandemic

Matt Hancock's leaked messages reveal that ministers and officials made jokes about people arriving in the UK during the Covid pandemic being locked up in quarantine hotels

Insider UK

Scottish footfall perks up, but remains below pre-pandemic levels

The number of people visiting Scottish stores rose by 14.5% year-on-year in February

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