British Isles
Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:17
UK volunteers could be given virus to test vaccine
The UK could carry out Covid ‘challenge trials’, where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to test possible vaccines. Challenge studies were used to test vaccines for flu, cholera and typhoid, but there were treatments…
Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:42
Politics post-Brexit
The political agenda has been dominated by the Internal Markets Bill with reading debates and two Commons committee stage days this week. There are two more scheduled for next week amid a gathering storm over the…
Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:39
Reducing pollution by speed limits
The UK is not meeting its current targets on limiting air pollution. Therefore, pollutants from traffic fumes, factories and industrial sites put vulnerable people at risk. Highways England is preparing to introduce reduced speed limits on…
Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:37
Stop virus surge, protect Christmas
Boris Johnson has warned actions to stop a second surge of coronavirus must be ‘tough now’ in order to ‘protect’ Christmas. His words came as stricter new measures are announced for areas where cases are on…
Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:33
Covid marshals controversy
The Government wants stronger enforcement of pandemic rules and proposed a register of environmental health officers to support councils and marshals to enforce social distancing, group gatherings and wearing masks. But a lack of detail has…
Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:31
Asylum-seeker ‘too tired to carry on’
‘The boat is our only chance for a new life in a safe country’, said Kamal, an Iranian Christian convert who has been in Calais for 10 days with his wife Niki and their baby daughter…