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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 world's 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 that's sold in the uk is made here. since the beginning of april, we have experienced driver shortages, so being able to tak...

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 the week before, up in england, wales and northern ireland, down slightly in scotland. why these di...

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. england's chief midwife has written to gp practices, obstetricians and midwives, stressing the need to encourage pregnant women to be vaccinated against coronavirus. estimates suggest that only one in ten pregnant women have had the jab but the number of mothers—to—be...

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, if you aren't vaccinated, you are more likely to end up needing respiratory support. unfortunately i...

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 haven't 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. i've had it done and feel much safer, happier and freer to go out. i decided it was, i was in a better position having the vaccine - t...