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THE EU blocked exports of some Covid-19 vaccines made on the continent today amid a row with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca over supply. European Commisson executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis said the bloc would to restrict exports of some vaccines, including the Pfizer/Biontech jab, at a Brussels press conference. It came soon after the EU staked a claim to Oxford-AstraZeneca doses made in Britain. The Commission published a heavily redacted contract with AstraZeneca in its claim that the pharma company is reneging on a deal to supply a Covid-19 vaccine to EU nations. C...

Published: 4:23 PM January 21, 2021    Updated: 2:33 PM January 22, 2021 Impressions of some of the new homes to be built in Littleport as part of a 680 home development - Credit: Carter Jonas It is already Cambridgeshire’s biggest village and is set to grow even bigger after the announcement that a consortium of builders is about to begin work on 680 new homes.   A 70-acre field at Littleport that has planning permission for 680 homes has been sold to builders who hope to start construction on the first phase of housing this year.   New community centre and retail hub proposed for Lit...

Castle Trust Bank has joined the Mortgage Market Alliance (MMA) as a founder member.

Paul Richard Flawn, inset, burgled Smokin’ Aces in Commercial Road, Bournemouth, in October A BURGLAR who claimed he did not know the high value of two limited edition bottles of whiskey that he stole from a Bournemouth bar has been jailed. Paul Richard Flawn said he did not specifically take the 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bottles, worth a combined £4,000, from Smokin’ Aces in Commercial Road. Judge Robert Pawson told Flawn, 52 and of Bath Road, Bournemouth, whether he knew the alcohol’s commodity or not, he still burgled the premises and stole the whiskey along with a case of...

THE Morning Star can reveal that MI5 declined to censor a book about its bugging of the British communists’ HQ, partly for fear of drawing the Soviet Union’s attention to the Security Service’s “sensitivity on the subject.” In a letter — dated February 1968 and made public today by the National Archives — to Michael Stewart, the then Labour government’s first secretary of state, MI5 said it had “covertly” obtained a typescript copy of double agent Kim Philby’s memoirs. It pointed out that, according to Philby, Roger Hollis — head of MI5’s F division, which m...