How the Government s mass Covid testing plan will work
Various coronavirus tests are available in the UK - what are your options for booking one, and how reliable are they?
Everything you need to know about Covid-19 testing
The country has been placed into its third lockdown, after scientists warned the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed in as little as three weeks.
Although there is no specific date for when the lockdown will end, the government has a coronavirus strategy, including mass testing, and a large-scale vaccination programme.
The first Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was given to Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old on Jan 4, the same day the new lockdown was announced.
Ministers refusing to release crucial Post Office Horizon scandal evidence
At least 900 former sub-postmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting
12 December 2020 • 8:00pm
Ministers are refusing to force the release of a document held by the state-owned Post Office that campaigners believe will show that it misled Parliament over evidence that hundreds of staff convictions for theft could be unsafe.
At least 900 former sub-postmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, but it later emerged that bugs in a computer system, Horizon, could render the convictions unsafe.
Judges quashed the convictions of six sub-postmasters on Friday after their cases were sent back to the courts by the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Post Office did not seek to uphold their punishments.
A procedure that involves inflating a hot balloon inside the gut could reverse type 2 diabetes and free thousands of patients from daily insulin injections, say doctors.
The pioneering operation is set to be offered to a handful of British patients as part of an international trial, after promising early results which saw three-quarters of those who underwent it ditch the drug.
The technique, known as duodenal mucosal resurfacing, involves the balloon being threaded on a long, thin tube down the throat, into the stomach, and then the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
The pioneering operation is set to be offered to a handful of British patients as part of an international trial, after promising early results which saw three-quarters of those who underwent it ditch the drug