Professor Neil Ferguson warned the spreading Indian variant could hinder the roadmap out of lockdown
He warns the UK could not cope if the variant is 60% more transmissible but says it could if less than 30%
Imperial College London academic also said the huge vaccine roll-out means the UK is in a much better place
He also said there was a hint under-21s are slightly more at risk of being infected with the Indian variant
Professor Lockdown warns TIGHTER restrictions may be needed as UK breaches 3,000 Covid cases for first time in a month with spike of 18% in a week amid spread of Indian variant - but deaths stay in single figures with nine victims
Covid deaths have remained in single figures, with nine fatalities recorded today down from 15 yesterday
Another 186,147 first vaccine doses were dished out today taking the UK total up to nearly 38.4million
Some 387,987 second doses were also dished out across the country yesterday taking the total to 23.6million
Illegal tobacco sales land shopkeeper in court Print
25th May 2021
A Salford shopkeeper continued to sell illegal and counterfeit cigarettes despite two previous raids by trading standards officers, a court has heard.
Officers found counterfeit cigarettes and empty cartons at the Little Hulton shop on the day officers went to caution him for the two previous offences.
Shujat Ali, owner of Super Discount Store, Hulton District Centre, pleaded guilty to two offences under the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 and the Trade Marks Act 1994 for possession of counterfeit cigarettes when he appeared at Salford and Manchester Magistrates Court.
The court heard that trading standards officers and a specialist dog handler visited the business on 29 May 2019 and seized illicit tobacco worth £7,000. They recovered 11,000 cigarettes, 7,780 of which were counterfeit and 107 pouches of hand-rolling tobacco, six of which were counterfeit.
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The handling of media requests by the health service – rigid at the best of times – has been tightened substantially over the last year.
NHS England imposed a command and control structure at the start of the pandemic which meant requests and answers to questions all had to run past them, with a central team in London determining much of what could be said.
HSJ has frequently heard private frustrations around this, and concerns that local organisations were struggling to get timely messages out to the public. But naturally, there is a reluctance to put those sorts of sentiments on the record.