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Meanwhile, 20.8 million people – almost two-fifths of the adult population – have received both doses.

In some countries, less than 1% of adults are vaccinated.

The Sutton Trust charity is calling on the Government to put the development and wellbeing of pre-school children at the heart of its recovery plan.

Ministers have been accused of ‘papering over the cracks’.

She has been missing since she left her home in Cricklewood Broadway, north-west London, on May 9.

No-one was injured in the blaze in Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire, in the early hours of Wednesday.

Charles and Camilla have undertaken a range of engagements on the second day of their visit to Northern Ireland

Researchers say the breakthrough findings shed an important new light on how proteins linked to neurological conditions are produced and controlled.

The Duchess of Cambridge is royal patron of the cultural attraction in central London.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced extra testing and vaccine supplies in areas where cases had been identified.

Participants trained to use the device increasingly felt like it was a part of their body, researchers found.

The couple’s Archewell Foundation is working in collaboration with World Central Kitchen.

She took part in a socially-distanced legal ceremony at the Court of Session.

Jennifer Johnson, ex-girlfriend of killer Russell Bishop, refused to appear for her sentencing on Wednesday.

The First Minister has moved Humza Yousaf from the justice to health brief.

The former Sinn Fein president said in a video that Francis Hughes stayed with him in Donegal when he was wanted in the 1970s.

The Department of Health and Social Care is accused of awarding contracts unlawfully at the height of the first wave of the pandemic last year.

The refurbishment of the No 11 apartment where Boris Johnson lives has been highly controversial.

Tracy Brabin said she was confident Labour would hold Batley and Spen after her mayoral win triggered a by-election.

Turkey has ruled out imports of ethylene polymer plastics after a Greenpeace report found UK rubbish is being illegally dumped there.