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On January 5 there were 374 patients in hospital with confirmed Covid-19, up from 226 in December.

The tour would have visited Liverpool, Canterbury, Norwich and Milton Keynes.

Harry said his wife visited his mother’s final resting place on the 20th anniversary of her death.

The inquest into the death of 18-year-old Callum Baker-Osborne concluded on Friday.

The duke said he and William were talked out of calling for a reopening of the inquiry by the ‘powers that be’.

Last year Scott Coombe admitted manslaughter and child cruelty relating to three earlier incidents of assault or mistreatment.

The chairman of the newspaper regulator, Ipso, said press regulation ‘applies just as much to the royal family as it does to anybody else’.

Three people and a dog died in the fire at Perth’s New County Hotel in the early hours of Monday.

In his memoir Spare, Harry has revealed intimately personal details about his life and family.

Nipsa said it is recommending that the pay offer be rejected.

Former PA and newspaper journalist Brian Hutton died suddenly last weekend aged 46.

Roman Hughes’s Old Bailey trial had heard how the bodies were found in a lorry trailer after it was transported by ferry from Zeebrugge to Purfleet.

The forum will focus on four areas: social care and delayed discharge; urgent and emergency care; elective care; and primary care.

The Education Secretary spoke after ‘constructive and helpful’ talks with the teaching unions on Friday.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay toured Watford General Hospital on Friday.

Michael McGrath welcomed the figures but said that there ‘is still a long way to go to’ before inflation is fully under control.

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, and their baby, are missing after their vehicle broke down near junction four of the M61.

Ms Birbalsingh was appointed chair of the Social Mobility Commission in 2021.

Seven men and four women are alleged to have taken part in a child sex ring between January 2010 and March 2020 at various addresses in Glasgow.

The Scottish Tory leader said it was ‘absolutely ridiculous’ to be debating independence while the NHS is ‘in the grip of a winter crisis’.