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The Public Prosecution Service made the announcement following a ten-month review of the decision last year to pursue charges against Soldier F.

The Government has so far spent £569 million on ventilator programmes.

The Newcastle-based business said it is in talks with staff over cutting employee hours ‘to minimise the risk of job losses’.

The move comes after the Government decided to ban the Chinese firm from having a role in the country’s 5G network.

Cabinet Office permanent secretary Alex Chisholm predicted there would be ‘fewer officials working in Whitehall’ after the pandemic.

Tim Davie also addressed presenter Gary Lineker’s social media presence during a DCMS committee.

Both sides have continued to clash over the Government’s controversial UK Internal Market Bill.

It is hoped Trainspotting will be shown in Leith early next year.

Royal Mail said the the black and gold postboxes are based in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.

It is later than the 10pm curfew in force across the rest of the UK, but earlier than 11.30pm for pubs and eateries in the Republic of Ireland.

Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace, said Mike Coupe had a ‘wealth of experience’.

The system has been described as ‘awesome’.

The duchess, who is supporting Silver Sunday – the national day for celebrating older people – asked the nation to reconnect with elderly relatives.

Some 84,700 approvals for house purchase were recorded, marking the highest number since October 2007, the Bank of England said.

Donna-Maria Thomas, 45, had been accused of snooping on her colleagues’ emails after a row over a cancelled holiday.

Companies were set to tighten their belts under Ofwat’s new rules.

Discounting by non-food stores is helping offset the small rises in food.

Deaths involving Covid-19 rose 40.4% in a week, according to official data.

Students isolating in their university halls have hung signs calling for a refund of their tuition fees.

The company said it has been buoyed by a ‘strong’ first half of trading, as group revenues grew by 25.3% in the six months to September 26.