Current coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease but should still prevent serious illness

Ex-miner Stanley Bradford deteriorated rapidly during the short time he lived at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar and a former nurse-matron there said the situation was 'dire'

Iceland, Morrisons and Ocado have seen the biggest surge in sales. Products including pasta were up 22%, chocolate spread up 42% and peanut butter up 39%

"Is [quarantine] something that you’re going to do forever, because it looks like these strains may continue to arise"

"I see them abusing him and mocking him, a man who served his country in World War II, a man who helped save this country from the Nazis a man who, aged 99, raised £39million for the NHS."

“The South African variant is an example of others that are cropping up around the world and the one I think we should be more worried about is the variant that’s emerged in South America.”

Mr Murfet will try to bring the bees around the ban through the Northern Ireland border

It comes as door-to-door testing across parts of Britain starts today after cases of the South African variant were found in certain postcodes

Police are investigating a collision involving a van and a pedestrian which took place on Stow Hill on Wednesday, January 20

Cash will help students facing loss of employment, additional costs for alternative accommodation, or to support access to remote teaching

There have been calls for payments to be backdated to October

Forecasters said motorists who brave the conditions face the threat of becoming stranded, while rail and air cancellations are likely

"Do you really need to go for that shopping or have you got enough in? “Could you work from home?"

"If someone in the UK has been infected with Sars-CoV-2 and become unwell with Covid-19 in the past, it might be potentially, if they come into contact with this variant, they may become unwell again."

Peter Short is now seriously ill in hospital after falling ill days after he had the jab

It comes as Wales' Health Minister admitted that more lives could have been saved had Wales gone into lockdown earlier

Such products, which allow shoppers to spread purchase costs interest-free at the checkouts, are rapidly increasing in popularity

The protections will need to be fully implemented by online operators by October 31 this year.

"It is vital to now change the UK Covid-19 case definition and test criteria"

Council workers found staff working without masks at Pizza Hut in Brackla and Subway in South Cornelly

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The legislation will reportedly be presented tomorrow

The UK has now identified a total of 105 cases of the South Africa variant.

Mr Johnson is reported to have been told we have passed the peak of this wave, and has asked for school opening to be accelerated

80,000 people will be tested after 11 cases of the new variant were found in people with no travel links