Nick Knowles reveals he got wedged in Grand Canyon after lockdown weight gain: ‘It was seriously terrifying’ The presenter recalled the scary experience after gaining weight during the pandemic Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023
Isabel Oakeshott says Hancock leaks ‘in public interest’ despite criticism The journalist said she makes ‘no apology whatsoever for acting in the national interest’ over her disclosure of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Democrat Jamie Raskin hits back at Lauren Boebert with Trump quotes: ‘Pin it on your favourite President’ Maryland Democrat responds as Colorado Republican blasts pandemic-era mask and vaccine mandates The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Matt Hancock ‘sent menacing message’ over leaked texts as row grows You’ve made ‘a big mistake’ says former Health Secretary as he hits out at reporter’s ‘breach of trust and betrayal’ Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023
Teachers blast 'sneering' Gavin Williamson WhatsApps saying they 'hate work' Leaked WhatsApps between Sir Gavin Williamson and the-then Health Secretary Matt Hancock show the pair criticising hard-working staff for wanting to ensure schools were safe during the pandemic Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023
Millions of pounds worth travel vouchers STILL left unclaimed - don't miss out During the Covid-19 pandemic, many airlines controversially started to issue travel vouchers rather than cash refunds for travellers whose flights had been cancelled and many are still to be claimed Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023
UK ministers considered 'culling all cats' at start of Covid-19 pandemic Former NHS Test and Trace chief Lord Bethell said the concern about pets showed how little was known about the disease at the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 Dublin Live · Mar 2, 2023
The missing evidence in the COVID origins debate The missing evidence in the COVID origins debate Axios · Mar 2, 2023
Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID lab leak theory seriously Citing a classified intelligence report provided to members of Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Energy Department has now concluded with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began after an unintentional laboratory leak in China. Chicago Tribune · Mar 2, 2023
Biden begins push for funding for pandemic fraud measures President Joe Biden's administration is starting a push to get Congress to fund measures to help prosecute fraud in government coronavirus pandemic relief programs The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Teachers say Gavin Williamson pandemic texts reveal ‘secret contempt’ Teaching unions react with fury to leaked Matt Hancock messages they say show ‘appalling lack of respect’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
Teaching unions brand Williamson remarks ‘contemptible’ after WhatsApp leak The messages appear to show the then education secretary accusing school staff of looking for an ‘excuse’ not to work during the pandemic. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Shoe polish stands lose some shine Shoeshines are losing some luster The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Gavin Williamson ‘accused teachers of looking for excuse to avoid work during pandemic’ The then-Education Secretary also said teaching unions ‘really really do just hate work’, according to reported leaked messages Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023
Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023 GMB's Susanna Reid horrified as government 'considered asking people to kill their pet cats' Susanna Reid was left stunned on Good Morning Britain today as she discussed claims that the government had considered asking people to kill their cats to prevent the spread of coronavirus at the start of the pandemic
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 Who is Isabel Oakeshott? The controversial reporter Matt Hancock trusted with 100,000 Whatsapp messages Political journalist at cente of storm over claims Matt Hancock rejected scientific advice to Covid test people going into care homes during the pandemic
Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023 Matt Hancock ‘hugely disappointed and sad’ after WhatsApp messages released The former health secretary has accused journalist Isabel Oakeshott of a ‘massive betrayal’.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023 Jean-Claude Juncker says protocol deal better for EU than some in UK saying and calls Boris Johnson ‘a piece of work’– as it happened Former EU chief says Rishi Sunak’s deal gives Europe more authority than it seems and says, though he liked Johnson, he could not be categorised
Los Angeles Times · Mar 2, 2023 Robin Abcarian: Mask mandates? COVID origins? Why are we still having these debates? On Monday, the White House announced there is no consensus in the Biden administration about whether COVID-19 sprang from a leak in a virus laboratory in China or was the result of a leap from another species to humans.
Tribune News Service · Mar 2, 2023 An at-home COVID-19 and flu test gets FDA emergency use authorization The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test that can detect and discern between COVID-19 infection and two strains of the flu, Influenza A and B, continuing the shift from clinical to home-diagnostic care that blossomed during the height of the pandemic.
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 Matt Hancock labelled teaching unions 'arses' with Gavin Williamson saying they 'just hate work' in leaked messages It came amid disagreements over schools opening during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023 Matt Hancock hits out at 'massive betrayal' by Isabel Oakeshott as more pandemic WhatsApps emerge The ex-Health Secretary is facing a political storm after an incendiary tranche of his pandemic-era WhatsApps were published
The Guardian - US · Mar 2, 2023 How did the Covid pandemic begin? We need to investigate all credible hypotheses The news has reignited the overheated public debate over the two prevailing hypotheses for the origin of Covid-19, but the case remains far from closed
Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023 Isabel Oakeshott says Matt Hancock sent her a ‘menacing message’ Mr Hancock denied sending the journalist a menacing message
Irish Mirror · Mar 2, 2023 Scientists warn 'utmost caution' needed as H5N1 bird flu mutates to infect people and young girl dies The medical science community is now on high alert, with health authorities in the UK modelling scenarios for a bird flu pandemic in response to the threat