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Different things. this is a celebration of lots of things, basically hope. this is the first major festival we are doing outside in unrestricted times. we have done three eids under lockdown. try to stick to the rules, where masks and do social distancing. we are having three different sets of prayers done throughout the day to make sure people are able to social distance as much as possible. also hand washing. try not to congregate today, particularly if you have been pinged or have a lateral flow test which has been positive. have fun, lots of fun today.— which has been positive. have fun,...

The parliamentary 0mbudsman has ruled government officials were too slow to tell many women they would be affected by the rising state pension age. the finding brings the prospect of compensation closer for thousands of women born in the 19505. it marks a significant victory for the campaign. the us—based ice cream company, ben and jerry's says it will no longer market its products in palestinian territories occupied by israel — including the west bank. the firm said selling there was inconsistent with its values. pro—palestinian groups have been pressing the company to make that decisio...

Suggestion that businesses have been giving leeway here and employers, some of which are perhaps acting unscrupulously and making it clear that they expect staff to come in evenif that they expect staff to come in even if they are told to isolate. if there is confusion here, there is even more over the idea of exemptions. even more over the idea of exemptions-— even more over the idea of exem tions. , ., exemptions. yes, the government said esterda exemptions. yes, the government said yesterday there — exemptions. yes, the government said yesterday there would _ exemptions. yes, the govern...

White hard and fast list of sectors whose staff are deemed critical. more this will be done, the government are saying, on a case—by—case basis. employers can make a request to the relevant government department if they are seeing too many staff having to isolate some to be exempt from that and as i say, downing street saying those requests will be considered on a case—by—case basis. a difficult few weeks ahead before that change in the law comes in mid august. bil in the law comes in mid august. all right, thank you very much indeed. i can now speak to sir jonathan montgomery, former ...

Individual business will have to apply themselves, and for lots of companies, right now that's simply one thing too many. we're part of that supply chain that feeds the nation every day. and the lifeblood to doing that is our drivers out there in the fleet and our workers within the cold store. tim employs 1,500 staff across the uk, and a quarter of front line workers at this main site near rochdale are off because they've been pinged. everybody who's off takes a little bit of capability away from what we can deliver on a daily basis. but the challenges that we face into are going to make it e...