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Mass testing will be carried out on campus before students will be allowed to leave between 3 and 9 December
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Family doctors will be redeployed to more than 1,200 new seven-day-a-week clinics
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According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017
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Books worth more than £2.5m found in Romania after Mission Impossible-style theft
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Spiral sculpture near Gretna Green expected to be twice as high as Angel of the North
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Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago
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Booksellers Association appeals to government to reopen England’s bookshops in second lockdown, as supermarkets and newsagents allowed to keep selling books
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The 18-year-old autism campaigner and international children’s peace prize finalist on why diagnosis of the condition for girls urgently needs improving
Analysis
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Europe and US create vast facilities for Covid-19 vaccine but poorer nations lack infrastructure, say experts
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Rishi Sunak’s response to Covid was not enough to halt a record rise in redundancies
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Family doctors will be redeployed to more than 1,200 new seven-day-a-week clinics
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Matt Hancock revealed the NHS will be ready for rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine as soon as next month – if it is proven to be clinically safe
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Prime minister says the vaccine still needs to be peer reviewed and clear any potential safety hurdles
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Boris Johnson congratulates Biden and Harris: 'There is more that unites us than divides us' – video
Boris Johnson insisted there is scope for cooperation with the incoming Biden administration as he congratulated the Democrat and running mate Kamala Harris
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The prime minister stressed new measures were different than in March, as schools, universities and nurseries would remain open
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The chancellor has announced that the government will extend the UK's furlough scheme until March as the second wave of Covid-19 infections and new lockdown threaten to push up unemployment
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Boris Johnson insisted his proposed month-long lockdown in England would 'stem the rising waters' of a second wave of Covid-19
Live Johnson under pressure from Tories over lockdown and possible chief of staff appointment
Coronavirus GPs in England will scale back care to deliver Covid vaccines
Covid-19 Anti-vaxxers seek to discredit Pfizer's vaccine