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Prime minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street. - Credit: PA Boris Johnson has pledged a "cautious but irreversible" approach to easing lockdown with more groups to be vaccinated and over-50s offered jabs by April. The prime minister said there were still more hospital patients with Covid-19 than at the peak of the first wave and admissions were running at 1,600 a day across the UK. He told a Downing Street press conference: "We have to keep our foot to the floor." The next million letters are set to be sent offering appointments for a vaccine to the over-65s and those...

THERE is "some evidence" the new UK variant of coronavirus could be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. Speaking at a Down Street press briefing this afternoon, the PM said the new variant could be linked to a higher death rate.  He said: "I must tell you this afternoon that we’ve been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant, the variant that was first identified in London and the South East, may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.” At the press conference Mr Johnso...

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Ugly. first the good. tie shoe after man walks down street, the boy ran out to make sure that he didn't trip, good for him. now the bad from shocking video, showing a lightening strike on a boat sitting in a dock, watch this. the boat sending sparks flying at yacht club in south austin, the boat was supposed to be in a race over the weekend, no one was on board, thankfully, wow. and finally the ugly, a man arrested after posting a video of himself licking and sticking his finger of blue bell ice cream and putting back in the freezer, seeing this happen all too often, copying viral video to get...

Back an obama era rule on transgender people in health services. the proposed rule issued friday the health and human services department says the law banning sex discrimination in healthcare does not apply to gender identity. the rule requires hospitals to perform gender transition procedures. conservative and religious groups have argued it forces providers to act against medical judgment and religious beliefs. the new rule is expected to be challenged in court as well. two days after president trump makes a state visit to the u.k., britain's prime minister will be resigning her position. th...