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Interesting that, despite being called out over sweatshops and paying under minimum wages, Boohoo seem to have been buying up even more of the industry... UK garment factory workers at higher risk of dying with Covid – study Campaign group says figures underline need for tougher regulation of...

Luckily we had almost no influenza.

Those who wouldn't remember if/when they had a vaccine, and which one, are precisely those who are most likely to lose their cards - possibly not even getting them out of the vaccination centre.

I don't think foreign citizens are allowed, are they? (Without getting into dual nationality, etc.)

Or which vaccine they received? From where we are, we have no idea whether two different vaccines are synergistic or unhelpful.

Difficult to see how they could deport a UK citizen especially if the country they came from is unwilling to allow them in. Whoever pays!

What happens at the end of that extra time? Do they get allowed out without further testing? Or could they be required to stay until a negative test?

Of course there should! We saw Drakeford and Sturgeon both going ahead separately to England - not because they hadn't tried to collaborate, but England (Johnson, effectively) refused.

That wonderful test and trace - world beating, of course: Thousands of UK Amazon workers given false Covid test results Exclusive: officials say the employees tested negatively but were sent notifications telling them to self-isolate Thousands of Amazon workers received the wrong Coronavirus...

Lovely - England only... Covid: almost 2m more people in England will be asked to shield New modelling identifies more higher-risk adults, of which 800,000 will be offered priority vaccination

Given the advice such as not consuming alcohol within some time of having a vaccination, due to its impact on developing immunity, could doing so affect the immunity from illness as well? Seems entirely sensible to consider that a possibility. (Not for one moment pointing my finger at the poor...

I'd definitely consider a crazy trip - but not carrying a commercial load of anything!

I'd probably avoid Belarus - and the Arctic, so Estonia/Latvia or Georgia/Azerbaijan. Or avoid Russia and come via Iran. How much does diesel cost across Russia?

OK - you are nuts. Try to make it simple by buying a truck in China, loading it up and driving. How many countries do you have to drive through? How many links do you need to use (ferries, trains)? Getting your papers right. Abiding by Covid-19 rules which could be ever-changing. And how many...

Last Thursday I posted local vaccination figures which included health & social care staff at 99.5%. Yet today Hancock reports: Covid vaccine take-up lower among health workers, says Hancock The health secretary said 80% of NHS staff received jabs, compared with 90% of those in top four age...

So good to read they have so much fun writing frivolous and lighthearted emails while there is a pandemic going on. Revealed: Cummings' role in handing Covid contract to firm run by 'friends' Court documents raise questions about whether Cabinet Office may have misled public...

I'd have thought the typical age range of police was similar to that of health care staff? Hence likely similar risk of dying if they catch it. And their widespread contact might be an issue. If vaccination reduces transmission, that alone might make police a good early target.

If you think it obvious that, for example, active police should have higher priority, just why has the government, and the JCVI, failed to see that? I do believe that police should have been up with or near health staff as they end up with some unavoidable contact which cannot be satisfactorily...

The cost of the connections in Scotland would alone be a considerable burden. There is also the teeny problem that those who currently use Pembroke Dock, Fishguard, Holyhead, Birkenhead, Heysham, etc., are hardly going to want or be able to divert via Stranraer. Costs - whether fuel, driver...

If it makes sense for younger people to be vaccinated, that should be the policy! The problem with over 65s being told to contact (I meant the over-70s) is the very fact that they have been missed. The policy was meant to contact all of them and it clearly hasn't managed that. And the "now...