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Lord Tyrie said the Bank’s £895 billion quantitative easing programme threatens to compromise its independence.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard said there is currently ‘absolutely no evidence that there is a need for a third dose’ in the autumn.

The famous shopping and leisure district in the heart of London will be transformed into two ‘piazzas’ and will prioritise pedestrians.

The military unit could be asked to serve in scenarios such as a natural disaster.

One Sage member said a child’s chances of dying from Covid-19 are ‘one in a million’.

Despite the law changing in 2018 to legalise prescribed medical cannabis, only three children with epilepsy have been granted the medication.

Leighton Snook, 28, and a teenager are accused of murdering Donald Ralph at his home in Essex last December and stealing guns and a car.

Baroness Diana Barran said the UK is at a ‘critical stage’ in tackling loneliness.

Simon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, from London, died in the blaze at Cameron House on the bank of Loch Lomond.

John Clark aims to raise more than £48,000 by completing the gruelling challenge across 48 counties.

Rishi Sunak said the new bank will provide cash to fund projects that support people across the UK.

National Records of Scotland data also shows seven coronavirus deaths occurred in the week to June 13.

Nearly half of first-year students still do not choose to share information before enrolling on their course, survey suggests.

The Competition and Markets Authority said on Wednesday that it has now ‘officially accepted’ the proposal to sell 27 petrol stations.

Boris Johnson was pressed to explain the UK’s high rates of the Delta variant at Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons.

Chloe Ferry, Chloe Khan, Jodie Marsh and Lucy Mecklenburgh are the first to be named on a dedicated web page set up by the advertising regulator.

Decreases in three major risk factors contributed to a fall in the number of heart attacks and strokes between 1990 and 2014, research found.

Secretary of State Brandon Lewis faced repeated questions in the Commons about the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

New data shows 132,000 vacancies were recorded in a single week in May.

Their time set last year was broken within three weeks.