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Revisited: It’s the final lockdown. But is it really?
Does our Covid “roadmap” mean that this could be the final lockdown?


Covid: Actor with learning disability finds out how others have coped
It has been a year of isolation, of anxiety, of loneliness, where social activities have been largely shut down and services like care provision severely disrupted. On World Health Day, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show that pe...


Vaccine targets should be met – JCVI’s Prof Anthony Harnden
We spoke to Prof Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.


Covid vaccine: UK under-30s offered alternative to AstraZeneca jab
Healthy adults aged under 30 in the UK will be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, after evidence suggesting it could be linked to a very rare form of blood clot.


Revisited: Essex lorry deaths, the journey of 39 Vietnamese migrants
We look into the story of one woman found in that container – who risked it all to come to the UK and provide for her family.


Sickle cell: Patient would not have died after 999 call in hospital if symptoms recognised sooner, coroner says
A 21-year-old man with sickle cell disease who rang 999 from his hospital bed after staff failed to recognise the severity of his symptoms, died because he wasn't given a blood transfusion in time.


Body discovered in Epping Forest after disappearance of teenager
Police investigating the disappearance of 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye say they have found a body of a man in a pond in Epping Forest.


Liberal Democrats and Greens urge government to scrap Covid passport plans
Caroline Lucas of the Green Party and Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats say the government should scrap its ‘illiberal’ plans for Covid passports.


Covid-19 passports ‘won’t be implemented in UK until at least 21 June’
Hours before AstraZeneca announced they were pausing trials for their vaccine in children, the Prime Minister appeared at an AstraZeneca factory encouraging people to keep getting vaccinated.


SAGE group member says risk to children incredibly small after Oxford vaccine trial paused
We were joined by Professor Calum Semple, member of the SAGE advisory group.


AstraZeneca pauses trial of vaccine on children after concerns over rare blood clots
This programme exclusively reported that the UK's medicines regulator, the MHRA, is looking closely at the planned roll out of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine among younger groups.


Revisited: Football, dementia, and the legacy of brain injury in sport
In recent years, we’ve lost many of the heroes of England’s World Cup winning team of ‘66 – and many of them suffered from dementia. Clare Fallon has been looking at sport and the long-term effects of head injuries.


UK medicines regulator considers issuing new advice over Oxford-AstraZeneca jab
The UK’s mass vaccination roll-out is one of the fastest and most successful in the world. It relies heavily on supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after the government ordered 100 million doses. And so far, the UK has not joined a numb...


SAGE scientist says risk of death from AstraZeneca vaccine ‘less than one in a million’
We were joined by the government’s former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir Mark Walport, who’s now a member of the SAGE advisory group.


Children as young as 12 involved in Londonderry disorder, PSNI say
Police in Northern Ireland say children as young as 12 were involved in another night of violence, as officers were attacked with petrol bombs in several predominantly Unionist estates in Londonderry last night. Officers were also attacked in loyalis...



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