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policy, University of Sheffield Boris Johnson’s government must indeed take responsibility for its many errors in handling the Covid pandemic. A further disastrous misjudgment, which is now seldom referred to, took place even before the virus struck. In the summer of 2019, days after becoming prime minister, Boris Johnson scrapped the cabinet pandemic committee, more properly called the threats, hazards, resilience and contingency committee (THRCC). He did this on the advice of the cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, so that civil servants and ministers could focus their energies on Brexi...

January 27, 2021, 8:02 am A staff nurse treats patient Peter Watts, 64, in the Emergency Department at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London (Victoria Jones/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The end of January marks a year since the first cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK. Here, we recall some of the striking images from the past 12 months, as captured by the PA news agency’s photograph...

In Pictures: A year of coronavirus 27/01/2021, 8:01 am A staff nurse treats patient Peter Watts, 64, in the Emergency Department at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London (Victoria Jones/PA) The end of January marks a year since the first cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK. Here, we recall some of the striking images from the past 12 months, as captured by the PA news agency’s photographers. JANUARY 2020 Passengers from a plane carrying British nationals from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China leave the aircraft after it landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfords...

The swimming pool at the Oasis leisure centre THERE are calls for an investigation into Swindon Borough Council’s dealings with landlord Seven Capital after the closure of the Oasis Leisure Centre. And Labour councillors are also keen to find out whether Oasis’ last operator, GLL, is moving equipment from the venue in North Star to other leisure facilities it runs in the borough or elsewhere – and if any of it belongs to the council. GLL says the items removed are its property and not the council’s. Kevin Small, who represents Mannington and Western, and Labour group leader Ji...

Tracy Nicholls, head of the College of Paramedics, says paramedics are under an 'unprecedented pressure' She said some ambulance crews have reported waiting up to ten hours to transfer a patient to hospital staff    Professor Chris Whitty said hospitals could be overwhelmed in weeks in a scathing article in the Sunday Times Some 46,000 hospital workers are currently off sick with coronavirus as NHS comes under more pressure