Month: December 2021

People will be able to get a Covid booster vaccine on Christmas Day, NHS England has announced as part of increased efforts to top-up protection against the Omicron variant. The […]

Britons are less likely to shake hands and hug people they do not live with following the pandemic, new polling has suggested. Around six in 10 people (62%) say they […]

The Duchess of Cornwall will read extracts of Charles Dickens’ festive classic A Christmas Carol in a series published on social media set to run over the 12 days of […]

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released the first picture of their daughter Lilibet, with Meghan holding her up in an image on their “family holiday” card. The Duke […]

The Government is under pressure to clarify its tipping point for imposing further restrictions as new figures show the number of NHS staff absent for Covid reasons at acute trusts […]

Coronavirus has accounted for two Premier League games on Boxing Day as the football schedule continues to be affected by the pandemic. Just four of the scheduled 10 games were […]

Hundreds of mourners have paid their respects to a 12-year-old girl who was stabbed following a Christmas lights switch-on. Ava White died last month after she was assaulted in Liverpool […]

The figure means roughly 37 pubs have been demolished or converted for other uses, such as for homes or offices, each month in 2021 More than 400 pubs have disappeared […]

Sally Ann Howes, who starred as Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died aged 91. Her son, artist Andrew Hart Adler, confirmed the news […]

First Minister Mark Drakeford gave a Coronavirus briefing from Cardiff New measures are to be introduced in Wales from 6am on Boxing Day to tackle rising rates of the Omicron […]