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Covid vaccine: Healthy competition between UK s four nations over how fast they inoculate the public is no bad thing – Kirsty Strickland
The art of small-talk has been eroded over the last year and so too has the opportunity for it.
Sunday, 7th February 2021, 7:00 am
Derek Fraser from Edinburgh receives an injection of a coronavirus vaccine from military doctor Captain Robert Reid from 3 Medical Regiment who are assisting with the vaccination programme at the Royal Highland Showground near Edinburgh
Tam Fry, spokesman for the National Obesity Forum, suggests Scotland should follow Amsterdam s lead and monitor weight from infancy to help curb the UK s obesity blight. Between 2012 and 2015, the percentage of overweight children fell by 12% as a result of a strategy that requires children in the Dutch capital to be regularly weighed and tested for agility and balance. Those whose weight is of concern are referred for help. Mr Fry claims that while Nicola Sturgeon, then Health Secretary, recognised that Scotland had similar problems in 2010 Scottish action has suffered a decade of indifference with repeat strategies having little impact on the problem.
The Kerry native was trending on Twitter last night for his coverage from Washington DC.
It was all love for Irish journalist and CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan on Twitter last night. The political correspondent began trending online after he appeared on CNN – giving crucial updates from the ground at Capitol Hill amid the chaos and siege that was underway.
Explaining that journalists at the scene were getting called names and shouted at, Donie could be seen on screen trying to find his place in the crowd amid the thousands of Trump supporters, angered and violent.
Telling Donie to “stay safe” was Wolf Blitzer, veteran CNN reporter, who was back at CNN’s studio.