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Revisited: Should BAME groups be fast-tracked for the vaccine?
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni has spent the year telling the stories of Black and brown families affected by the virus and reflects on whether enough is being done to protect people of colour during the pandemic.
Scottish election: Sturgeon rules out working with Salmond and commits to Covid inquiry
Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants a public inquiry into her government's response to the pandemic to start later this year.
Richard Okorogheye’s mother: Police didn’t initially take missing student case seriously due to race
The mother of the missing student Richard Okorogheye has said that she believes the police initially did not take her seriously because of her race.
Metropolitan Police Officer convicted of neo-Nazi group membership
PC Ben Hannam was found guilty of membership of banned far-right extremist group National Action.
UK university’s return of looted Benin Bronze puts pressure on other institutions
Aberdeen University has become the first British institution to announce that it plans to return artefacts looted in the late 19th century from what is now part of Nigeria.
Pfizer Covid jab 100% effective for children aged 12-15, new study suggests
A new study from the United States has suggested that the Pfizer Covid jab is "100% effective and well tolerated" in children aged 12 to 15.
Prison lockdown has damaged inmates’ mental health, says report
A new report conducted by the Zahid Mubarek Trust suggests the measures have had a damaging impact on the mental health of prisoners. We have this exclusive report.
Race report is ‘wholescale operation in gaslighting much of our society’ says author Nels Abbey
We talk to Halima Begum, chief executive of the race equality think tank, The Runnymede Trust, and activist, satirist and author of 'Think Like A White Man', Nels Abbey.
‘BAME’ should not be used as a term ‘just because it suits one culture to say you’re not white’, says race report commissioner
We spoke to Samir Shah, a television producer, who's one of the commissioners behind the report.
The long struggle for racial equality in the UK
We look back at race and inequality in Britain.
No evidence of institutional racism in UK, says report commissioned by government
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has caused uproar, and perhaps that's exactly what the government wanted. Anti-racism campaigners, and Labour, are furious.
‘Unclear’ where pregnant nurse Mary Agyapong contracted Covid
A coroner has called on Boris Johnson to launch a public inquiry into the Covid pandemic "as soon as practicable", at the end of an inquest into a pregnant nurse who died with the virus.
Khan tells Grenfell inquiry treatment of residents ‘a disgrace’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told the inquiry into the Grenfell disaster that the "dismissive treatment" of residents who had complained about fire risks was a "disgrace".
Fears thousands of jobs could be lost if Liberty Steel goes under
One of the most immediate issues facing MPs in ‘Red Wall’ constituencies is the future of the steel industry, amid fears that thousands of jobs could be lost if Liberty Steel goes under.
‘Please Aunty, have the jab. We love you and we want you to be well’ – actor Adjoa Andoh’s vaccination appeal
Figures out yesterday show a far lower proportion of Black people aged over 70 had got their first jab.