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Denise Van Outen Forced To Quit Dancing On Ice With New Contestant Set To...
Denise Van Outen has been forced to withdraw from this year’s Dancing On Ice due to injury. The star of stage and screen suffered a shoulder injury in training earlier this month, and her latest scan...
View ArticleHow The UK Reached 100,000 Covid Deaths – Twice
The UK has reached a dark milestone of the coronavirus pandemic: the country’s Covid-19 death toll reached an awful 100,000 on Tuesday. But you may have a grim sense of deja vu – headlines proclaiming...
View ArticleUK's Official Covid Death Toll Hits 100,000
The UK’s death toll from Covid-19 has now passed 100,000. On Tuesday, 1,631 deaths were recorded, taking the total to 100,162. The figures are based on government data for those who died within 28...
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How It Feels To Lose My Dad Among 100,000 Dead To Covid
We have all changed over the past 12 months. Like a daily ritual, we wake up every morning to hear about the hundreds of lives lost to Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours. Each day, each number, is a...
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31 Police Officers Handed Covid Fines For Getting Haircuts – At Police Station
A group of 31 police officers have been reprimanded for breaching Covid-19 rules after getting their hair cut by a barber – while on duty at a police station. The Metropolitan Police said the officers...
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Boris Johnson Says He Did 'Everything' To Stop Covid As UK Marks 100,000 Dead
Boris Johnson offered his “deepest condolences” to Covid families and claimed his government did “everything we could” as the UK death toll from the pandemic passed 100,000. Speaking in Downing...
View ArticleAstraZeneca Boss Predicts UK Will Vaccinate Around 30 Million People By March
The boss of AstraZeneca has predicted the UK will have vaccinated “maybe 28 or 30 million people” by March amid a row over the slow roll-out of the jab in the European Union. Pascal Soriot, chief...
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Marcella Series 3: The 8 Burning Questions We Need Answers To After Episodes 1&2
After making Marcella fans waiting nearly three years for the return of TV’s most troubled detective, ITV rewarded them for their patience with a double bill as the third series launched on Tuesday...
View ArticleWill Boris Johnson Come To Regret His ‘Sorry, Not Sorry’ Apology For 100,000...
You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. You know things are bad when Boris Johnson says the word ‘alas’. You know they’re truly awful...
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This Is How I’m Teaching My Kids About The Anti-Semitism They’ll Face
How do you tell your children that if they’d been born just six decades earlier they probably would have been murdered? Or, if they were lucky, have to be hidden by strangers and live in fear of...
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'La!' The Queer Code In It's A Sin And The Story Behind It
“La!” The notifications on my phone were spilling over with the same comment from all my queer friends after they watched Russell T Davies’ new show, It’s A Sin. Some I hadn’t heard from in nearly a...
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Shelf Life: How To Showcase The Things You Really Love
You’re reading Here, Try This – our month-long plan encouraging you to try something new every day. Shelves should be given the same love and attention as the rest of your house when it comes to...
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We Work From Bed – And We're Not Ashamed By That
Work from home set-ups differ from household to household – whether it’s a desk facing a window (lucky you), spread out on a kitchen dining table, or a makeshift home office in bed. But it seems one...
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‘A 6-Year-Old In A 90-Year-Old’s Body’ – The Children Devastated By Long Covid
“He’s like a six-year-old in a 90-year-old’s body,” says Chris Ward of his son Thomas, who first fell ill last February with a fever, breathlessness and aches all over his body. Thomas was assessed at...
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You Will Get Through This Never-Ending Lockdown
Work is never-ending, your children need teaching, you’re worried about your loved ones’ health as the Covid death toll continues to climb. Pandemic overload is alive and real. And to top it off,...
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How Britain Succumbed To Covid
The UK on Tuesday recorded its 100,000th death linked to Covid-19 – a horrific statistic that is five times the death rate once described within government as a “good” projected outcome. According to...
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Elliot Page Files For Divorce From Wife Emma Portner
Juno actor Elliot Page has filed for divorce from choreographer and dancer Emma Portner after three years of marriage. Elliot submitted the documents in Manhattan on Tuesday, around two months after...
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Liz Hurley Says *Those* Pics Weren’t Taken By Her Son After All. Her...
Lots of people had lots to say about those pictures of Elizabeth Hurley braving the elements, mainly because of her attire (or lack of) and the fact that it was widely reported that her 18-year-old...
View Article45 Senate Republicans Vote To Dismiss Trump's Impeachment Trial
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and 44 other Republicans voted on Tuesday to dismiss the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump over the insurrection at the US Capitol...
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How Biden Is Erasing Trump's White Supremacist Legacy
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden moved to both erase the white supremacist legacy of the previous White House and address injustices that existed long before Donald Trump came to power....
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‘Legal Review’ Of Trump’s Use Of Mar-A-Lago As A Residence Underway
The town of Palm Beach, Florida, is reviewing Donald Trump’s use of his Mar-a-Lago Club as a residence, even as the former president is set to once again violate a length-of-stay provision he himself...
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Katie Price's Son Harvey Made Dream Offer By Network Rail After Moving...
Katie Price’s son Harvey has been offered the opportunity to make train announcements by National Rail, after the mother and son’s documentary Katie Price: Harvey And Me aired on Monday night. The...
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Where Covid Cases Are Falling Fastest In England
As the UK reels from surpassing the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths due to coronavirus, there was a glimmer of positivity that was understandably lost among the grief, sadness and anger. Tuesday saw...
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Piers Morgan Slams Boris Johnson's Apology As UK Death Toll Reaches 100,000
Piers Morgan has dismissed Boris Johnson’s public apology to those who’d lost loved ones to Covid-19 after the UK death toll topped 100,000. During Wednesday’s edition of Good Morning Britain, Piers...
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Rylan Clark-Neal Blasts 'Infuriating' Question-Dodging MPs, Likening Them To...
Rylan Clark-Neal has hit out at question-dodging MPs, likening them to “broken tamagotchis”. The Strictly: It Takes Two presenter called for it to be made law that government ministers should have to...
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The 7 Work From Home Mistakes We're All Making
“I’ve worked from home for most of my 20+ year career and never ever had so many calls and meetings,” writes journalist and podcast host Amy Westervelt. “I’ve kept it to myself for a full year but I...
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Vic And Bob Reveal They Were Threatened At Gunpoint During US Road Trip
Vic Reeves has revealed he and comedy partner Bob Mortimer were threatened at gunpoint during a road trip in California. Back in 1992, the pair hired motorbikes to drive from the west to east coast of...
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Hilarious Impressionist Answers How Your Favourite Sitcom Characters Have...
There have been many shows that have adapted to include Covid-19 into their storylines, but one thing we’ve long been pondering is how various classic comedy characters would have been dealing with...
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Vaccinate Teachers And Other Key Workers Alongside Over-50s, Says Labour
Labour has called for key workers such as teachers, police and supermarket staff to be offered the coronavirus vaccine from mid-February. The government has pledged to give the vaccine to the top four...
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How Not To Quarantine: The Deadly Hotel Isolation Mistakes The UK Must Avoid
When the world’s elite tennis players arrived in Australia for the first grand slam tournament of 2021, it was not the usual warm welcome from the country known as being one of the friendliest on the...
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Schools To Stay Shut Until March 8, Boris Johnson Confirms
Schools will not reopen before March 8, Boris Johnson has confirmed, as calls intensify for children to start learning again. The coronavirus lockdown is set to be reviewed on February 22 and the...
View ArticleMandatory Hotel Quarantine For Travellers From Covid Hotspots, Announces...
People arriving in the UK from a number of coronavirus hotspots will be required to quarantine in government-run hotels at their own expense, Boris Johnson has announced. It will apply to UK citizens...
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Davina McCall Feared She Was Developing Alzheimer's After Onset Of Menopause
Davina McCall feared she was developing Alzheimer’s disease after the menopause affected her memory. The former Big Brother host, whose father, Andrew, has the illness, has revealed she went to her...
View ArticlePlan To Lift Lockdown Will Be Revealed In Week Beginning February 22
Boris Johnson has said he will reveal his plan to lift England’s third coronavirus lockdown in the week beginning February 22. The prime minister said he would be in a position to review the success...
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Kristen Stewart Appears As Princess Diana In First-Look Photo From New Biopic...
We’re barely over Emma Corrin’s stunning portrayal of Princess Diana, but already we’ve been treated to a first look at Kristen Stewart in character on the set of the upcoming biopic Spencer. It was...
View ArticleUK Records 1,725 More Coronavirus Deaths In 24 Hours
The UK has recorded 1,725 more Covid-related deaths since Tuesday – the second highest total of the pandemic. It comes 24 hours after the total deaths passed 100,000, leading prime minister Boris...
View ArticleRevealed: Full List Of High-Risk Countries That Mean Quarantine Hotel Stays
Home secretary Priti Patel has announced that international arrivals from “high-risk” countries must now spend 10 days in a quarantine hotel. The move is aimed at avoiding new variants of Covid-19...
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Jeremy Corbyn Loses Key Stage Of Court Battle To Be Reinstated As Labour MP
Jeremy Corbyn has lost a key plank of his court battle to be reinstated as a Labour MP. The High Court rejected a bid by the former leader for disclosure of documents that he claimed would help show...
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What The Science Says About Delaying Second Vaccine Doses
Weeks after the world’s first Covid vaccine was administered in Britain, the government announced that the three-week wait between doses would be extended to 12 weeks. The goal is to give at least...
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Oxford Street Attack: Boy Given Rehabilitation Order For 'Racially Motivated'...
A 16-year-old who carried out a “racially motivated” attack on a Singaporean law student has been handed a youth rehabilitation order. Jonathan Mok, 24, was left bloodied and bruised and required...
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Man Arrested After Allegedly Injecting People With Untested Covid-19 Vaccine
A man was arrested in the United States last week on federal charges after allegedly selling injections of a self-made and untested Covid-19 “vaccine” to customers online. Johnny Stine, 55, from...
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All The Times Experts Called For Hotel Quarantine
People arriving in the UK from Covid hotspots will soon be required to quarantine in hotels – but it’s something scientists have been calling for since the outbreak of the pandemic . Arrivals from 30...
View ArticleWhat We Know About The UK's First 100,000 Covid Victims
On Tuesday, the UK’s coronavirus death toll passed 100,000 people since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. After a year of the virus, we’ve heard countless stories about the victims who have died...
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The Full Moon Really Could Be Messing With Your Sleep
As the so-called Wolf Moon approaches, you might find you’re not getting as much shut-eye as you’d like. But don’t worry, on this occasion it’s probably not because of the pandemic or work worries....
View ArticleIs Boris Johnson Risking Another Missed Deadline With His March Schools Date?
You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. It’s fair to say Boris Johnson is not a great time keeper. Whether it was filing his Daily...
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Tory MP Desmond Swayne Accused Of Spreading Covid Misinformation
Labour has accused Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne of spreading “dangerous misinformation” about coronavirus and has called for the Tories to take action. Angela Rayner, deputy Labour leader, has...
View ArticleCoronavirus Infections Falling Slower Than During First Wave, Study Warns
Scientists have warned the NHS is still under significant pressure as the number of people infected with coronavirus in England is at the highest level recorded since the end of the first wave in May....
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