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First post-pandemic study of attainment gap finds pupils from low-income families have fallen further behind richer peers except in London

With the end of direct cash payments, poverty levels are moving up.

With three out of four Europeans planning on travelling over the summer, the era of border closures, mandatory testing and vaccine certificates seems a half-remembered nightmare to many. But with more than 1,700 people still dying every week across the world from Covid-19 and vaccine coverage declining among at-risk populations,…

Catalogue of errors by government and health officials includes the deliberate winding down of PPE stockpiles