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Bereaved Londoners among families take legal action over care home pandemic deaths

Relatives are arguing the State failed to protect them under the Human Rights Act and have issued legal claims for damages for distress caused

Evening Standard

Losing motivation to train as you get older? We ask three exceptional veterans for their tips

What does it take mentally to keep striving for peak performance into your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond? We speak to three exceptional veterans

Cycling Weekly

Covid Eris symptoms: All we know about new variant driving surge in cases

Eris is now the second most prevalent Covid variant in the UK and most common varient in the US

The Independent UK

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COVID: should we start wearing masks again?

One thing that can be guaranteed about COVID is that evolution will provide us with a more or less constant stream of new coronavirus variants, some of which will be more successful at infecting people. Talk of mutations sounds scary and it can lead to serious problems, but it would…

The Conversation

Tory frustration with Nadine Dorries grows as former party whip calls for clarity – as it happened

John Penrose is the latest MP to voice their frustration after Dorries said she was quitting but then failed to do so

The Guardian - UK

Highly mutated Covid variant found in new countries as scientists urge careful monitoring

Scientists are testing how well updated Covid-19 vaccines will work against BA.2.86 after at least nine cases were detected across the world

The Independent UK

Families sue UK government over relatives’ deaths during Covid crisis

Cases against government, care homes and hospitals relate to deaths in 2020, when Covid patients were moved into homes

The Guardian - UK

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An August surge, two new variants and a Barbenheimer spike: is London facing a Covid autumn?

Cases have surged by 17 per cent in the last week, with experts blaming waning immunity, increased indoor mixing and new mutations

Evening Standard

California doctor lauded for COVID testing work pleads guilty to selling misbranded cosmetic drugs

A celebrated doctor who tested tens of thousands of people for COVID-19 in the pandemic’s early months in a badly-stricken California desert community has pleaded guilty to misbranding cosmetic drugs

The Independent UK

Saudi Arabia's Pro League is taking advantage of football's greed and inequality

For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He was the club captain who fundraised for the UK’s National Health Service during the COVID-19 pandemic and vocally supported Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ community.

The Conversation

Ohio is third state to report worrying new Covid strain

Scientists are concerned about BA2. 86, also known as the ‘Pirola’ strain, due to its high number of genetic variants

The Independent UK

Sarah Palin burns Covid masks in bizarre video as conservatives sound alarm over new mask mandates

Institutions in California, Georgia, and New York have reinstated mask mandates

The Independent UK

Bargaining in Blue: Arbitrator reinstates Massachusetts police officers denied religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccine

Bargaining in Blue, a monthly newsletter from Ballotpedia, provides news and information on police collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), including the latest news, policy debates, and insights from Ballotpedia’s analysis of police CBAs in all 50 states and the top 100 cities by population.

Ballotpedia

Top GCSE results fall in return to pre-Covid grading system

Around 203,000 fewer top GCSE grades were awarded in England, Wales and Northern Ireland compared to last year.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Covid cases double in a month as scientists warn about spread of new variants

Hospital admissions are also said to have increased after the discovery of Erin and Pirola strains

The Guardian - UK

GCSE results show us a nation of overwhelmed, vulnerable children. Where is the support?

Covid-19, social media, the tyranny of tests – the problems are known, yet politicians fail to draw the threads together, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Newsroom.co.nz

National donors say migrant hostels inquiry has been widened to other houses

Alpha Laboratories owners say they expect to be cleared in tenancy inquiry, and hope to continue donating money to politics to support small businesses. Jonathan Milne reports.

The Guardian - AU

Political support for surveillance of Covid waning in Australia despite ‘waves of mutations’, scientists say

Active community testing required on an intermittent basis so see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett says

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The Conversation

COVID boosters to be sold on the high street – here's what effect this may have on uptake

COVID boosters will be available to buy from high-street pharmacists and private healthcare providers across the UK in 2024.

The Independent UK

Gender-affirming surgeries in the US nearly tripled before Covid pandemic dip, study finds

During the five-year study, there were about 48,000 patients who underwent such surgeries

The Guardian - US

Americans at high risk advised to wear masks as new Covid variant detected

CDC said that scientists discovered a new coronavirus variant, BA 2.86, and that higher-risk individuals should be cautious

The Independent UK

NI students celebrate GCSE results despite uncertainty around grade levels

Of the 30,800 GCSE students in the region who received their results, 86.8% received grade C/4 and above, while 34.5% received grade A/7 and above.

Evening Standard

What is Pirola? Symptoms of new Covid variant as cases rise

Scientists are closely monitoring the new Covid variant that has been found in eight countries so far but admit they don’t know much about it

The Independent UK

Headteacher’s delight at GCSE results for pupils ‘most affected’ by pandemic

A campaign to improve mental health support in Brighton and Hove schools is under way.

Autosport

MotoGP riders feel “insane” Austrian GP party should be copied by other tracks

The Red Bull Ring has been a mainstay on the MotoGP calendar since it returned to the schedule in 2016, hosting events every year since – including double-headers in 2020 and 2021 during COVID times – and has become a firm fan favourite.

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