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A new survey by Westfield Health found that companies are increasing spending in supporting staff due to Covid-19 hitting mental health.

Meanwhile, 126,000 people were contacted in error and wrongly advised to shield when they did not need to do so.

The IPPR said one in three businesses now have less than three months’ worth of cash reserves.

Arriving passengers will be tested twice for coronavirus.

The UK recorded its coldest night of the winter so far.

Mark and Sara Plowright, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, won £1 million on a National Lottery scratchcard.

Last year, 124 distillers registered with the tax office.

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said the Government was reinforcing economic imbalances.

Environmentalists are calling for a ban on plastic wet wipes amid fears over the ‘plastic soup in our seas’.

The temperature at Altnaharra was minus 16.7C, the coldest temperature recorded there since 2010, the Met Office said.

The virus which causes Covid-19 is ‘extremely unlikely’ to have come from a laboratory-related incident, experts concluded after a visit to Wuhan.

Ministers have been urged to better protect carbon-storing peatlands ahead of a key climate summit in the UK.

Data from the Office for National Statistics also showed that many children had spoken to and even met up with strangers.

A total of 126,023 deaths involving coronavirus had occurred in the UK by January 29.

The charity DogLost saw reported pet thefts rise from 172 dogs in 2019 to 465 in 2020.

Maternal death rates among women from black ethnic backgrounds are more than four times higher than for white women.

Tributes to Christians Against Poverty founder John Kirkby have been led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the charity’s patron.

He said the Commission changed its position last week, and that prior to that “they had been clear that this was a trade that could continue”.

An appeal to name the vehicles received more than 1,200 entries.

Professor Sir Geoff Palmer said BAME experts should have been standing alongside the Prime Minister to speak about the virus from the beginning.