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The firm said 600 stores did not receive deliveries. they say the ongoing shortage of drivers, alongside staff having to isolate because of covid alerts, is causing major disruption. the company boss has been speaking to our business correspondent emma simpson. this is the worlds largest fresh milk dairy. we process over a billion litres of milk from our cooperative farmer owners a year, so you can see this is a vast operation. in fact, one in every five bottles of milk thats sold in the uk is m...

Trent fall. there is a different way of measuring infections carefully watched and this is where the office of national statistics goes out and randomly sampled people in the population, about half—a—million people in the uk. that can measure notjust people with symptoms but people who are not sick with covid at the time. that data shows in the week to last saturday actually cases where rising slightly, across the uk, short of a million people, 950,000 had covid in that week, up from 830,000...

People double—jabbed. and critical workers can escape self isolation through testing although there are only 300 testing sites in operation. it is interesting increasingly it seems sir keir starmer is looking for points of conflict with the government over covid rather than consensus. our political corresondent iain watson. englands chief midwife has written to gp practices, obstetricians and midwives, stressing the need to encourage pregnant women to be vaccinated against coronavirus. estimat...

Surveillance system shows of the 742 pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid since the start of february, only four had received a single dose of the vaccine, and none had been double—jabbed. the later also suggested the delta variant has increased the likelihood of pregnant patients having more severe symptoms. at chelsea and westminster they outline other risks, too. if you are umming and aahing about having the covid vaccination, it is really important to remember that in pregnancy, ...

At the antenatal clinic at chelsea and westminster hospital most of the pregnant women we spoke to had beenjabbed. it is just for the safety, i started getting worried especially during my third trimester. luckily i havent had covid, i have been very lucky, but i thought it was important to have it to protect me and the baby now as well. yes, i decided to do it. i was really nervous before i had it done. then i did a bit more reading i thought this is perfect. ive had it done and feel much safer...

The famous playbooks and protocols and safety for the athletes, and all the local communities that you have to protect as well. but i think there were moments, and some of them are political as well, but i think there were moments where we were beginning to doubt whether or not this was going to happen. but everybody kept their nerve. it has been easy to forget there are no fans at these games because of the situation with covid, but then this massive arena, the athletes are putting their team�...

Medical experts insisted there had been no safety concerns for pregnant women who have taken the jab, and it is safe. catherine burns, bbc news. the latest data from the office for national statistics shows the number of people testing positive for coronavirus continued to increase in the week to last saturday. it comes after a several days of falling daily case numbers in the uk. so whats going on? our health correspondent jim reed is here to explain. jim. what is going on? there are two main w...