After some gloomy and conflicting press reports recently - good to see hard data that the reduced new cases seen on ZOE app for last 3 weeks (and vaccinations) is showing up now as reduced hospital cases across the country. We are making progress! thx Alistair Haimes

Elsewhere in Covid Good News: UK to significantly speed up vax rollout, hitting ~4 million doses/week by end March ft.com/content/0cd86d… By our calcs, this could mean 1st doses for all adults by mid June, 2nd doses by mid July, 30-somethings (👋) getting 1st jab April or May

EXCLUSIVE A leaked Test and Trace document admits that data from check-ins at pubs, restaurants and hairdressers was barely used for contact tracing Nor was data from hundreds of millions of check-ins with the contact tracing app news.sky.com/story/test-and…

“It's been really hard. I'll tell you now mate, it's been really hard.” Yorkshire icon Dickie Bird has been shielding on his own for the last year.

One of those days, combined table score of +29...comment your 4 ball that can relate🤦🏼 Henrik Stenson Rory McIlroy Tyrrell Hatton

Only 4500 cases per day now and the rates in London and the South of England are very low at 40-60 cases per million and still dropping. Too early to tell if any effects of schools yet. Thx for logging

In the U.K. we should be looking at Israel which is ahead of us in vaccination - not Europe . They also had a two week plateau in cases but then declined. So relax!

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Heads of state need to come together and find at least some vaccines to give to India and other suffering nations. So many young people in Europe and NA have been vaccinated. It's not too much to think the world needs at least somewhat equitable vaccine distribution.

This is a brilliantly written open letter from Gareth Southgate to fans before the euros. theplayerstribune.com/posts/dear-eng…

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The Premier League Goal Of The Month nominations for December 2006 will never, ever be topped! 🔥 Banger after banger. Which is your favourite? 🤯

“I don’t mind them having second jobs as long as it’s stocking the empty shelves in supermarkets…” Solicitor nazir afzal jokes that MPs could aid in the HGV driver shortage to remind them of the consequences of their actions. x.com/bbcquestiontim…

Government gets in on the Black Friday action by offering peerages for just £2million.

Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent

One day we will look back and wonder how the hell did someone as inept, and untrustworthy as Boris Johnson get the keys to number 10. The most important job in the country given to a man who is the epitome of what is wrong where entitlement and privilege replace talent.

We agree and understand that there have been rumours that we lost last night’s match. We, of course, could’ve done things differently, but would advise people to await the outcome of Sue Gray’s inquiry before jumping to any conclusions… #AfternoonPrimeMinister | #NN15 | #KTFC

With the #UK expected to drop arrivals tests, for the fully-vaccinated, at the end of January do not buy any inbound tests if you’re travelling after 1st February. At last the wild-west £1billion-plus private test industry is nearing its end point. The PC Agency #omicron

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