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Sunak says Government ‘confident’ in position on Covid Inquiry demands

Rishi Sunak was speaking less than an hour before a deadline to hand over Boris Johnson’s papers and WhatsApp messages

Evening Standard

UK government refuses to hand over WhatsApp messages to COVID inquiry

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government on Thursday said it would not hand over internal WhatsApp messages requested by a public inquiry into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and instead seek a legal challenge against the demand.

Reuters

West Lothian's Civic Centre café to start taking cash for first time since covid

Councillors agree that card only payment excludes many from using public facility in Civic Centre and drops pandemic ban on cash

Edinburgh Live

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Bespoken Word – the price of everything...

After the crazy cost increases of Covid, bike businesses are hacking prices everywhere trying not to be the ones that go bust after the boom. But Guy Kesteven reckons there’s more to whether something is really a bargain or not than the amount of money saved on the price tag

Bike Perfect

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist guilty of plotting to destroy 5G masts

Christine Grayson, who believed the 5G masts were linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, has been convicted at Leeds Crown Court

The Independent UK

Star Flyer tests all-you-can-fly package as airline bets on remote workers

For just $286, those under the age of 26 can fly as much as they want between Tokyo and the southwestern city of Kitakyushu.

Fortune

Court rules Austria can't be held liable for early COVID infection at ski resort

An Austrian federal court says the state can’t be held liable for a COVID-19 infection from an outbreak at an Alpine ski resort as the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe The Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday announced its verdict in a long-running legal battle involving a German resident who traveled…

The Independent UK

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Spain expects more summer tourists than before pandemic

Spain expects to receive more tourists in the summer of 2023 than before the COVID-19 pandemic, after international tourist arrivals for April were 1.2% higher than in the same month in 2019, the tourism minister said on Thursday.

Reuters

Boris Johnson 'ranted f*** this s*** in foul-mouthed tirade over Rishi Sunak'

Guto Harri, Mr Johnson's former communications chief, said the former PM burst out 'f*** this s***' in a foul-mouthed rant about the Treasury as relations with Rishi Sunak deteriorated

Daily Mirror

Covid inquiry ‘may be flawed if it doesn’t get all documents it needs’

Lord Saville backed Baroness Hallett’s demand that the inquiry team should decide what material is relevant or not

Evening Standard

Black people were THREE times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales

Black people were about three times more likely to be hit with a fine for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules across England and Wales, new research has revealed

Daily Mirror

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to teach at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lori Lightfoot heads to Harvard for a fellowship at the public health school; her course will be, in part, a study of how she steered Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ on Covid inquiry position as deadline to hand over Boris Johnson documents passes – as it happened

If Cabinet Office has failed to comply with inquiry’s order to disclose the documents it could face legal battle

The Guardian - UK

Is Boris Johnson tearing the Conservative Party apart?

It is almost a year since many Tories decided that Boris Johnson would have to go, “yet a whole two prime ministers later, it’s almost as if he never left”, said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.

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What to know about metapneumovirus—the respiratory infection you've never heard of that spiked this spring

If you experienced cough and cold symptoms this spring, you might not have had COVID or the common cold after all. You may have had human metapneumovirus—a (relatively) newly recognized “bug” hitting radars in a post-pandemic world.

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps urges No 10 to hand Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps to Covid inquiry

Minister increases pressure on government to provide unredacted notes so inquiry can ‘get on with job’

ABC News

NT police officer pleads not guilty to disclosing confidential information in private group chat

A lawyer for police officer Jeannie Secrett's says the information his client allegedly revealed in the group chat, from an internal police email about COVID-19 mandates, is trivial and does not warrant a criminal sanction.

The Independent UK

UK government faces deadline to hand Boris Johnson's messages to coronavirus inquiry

The British government is facing a Thursday deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry

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Evening Standard

The friends proving a healthy London lunch need never be boring

When these entrepreneurs couldn’t find a great salad in their newly-adopted city, London, they built their own...

Evening Standard

Key worker fined £2000 for Covid travel breach two years after incident

Prosecutions for pandemic offences continue unabated despite the lifting of restrictions in 2022

Newcastle Herald

Whale watching season kicks off with a splash

'Everyday is a little different out here. You never know what you're going to see.'

The Independent UK

Deadline looms for Government to hand over Johnson papers to Covid Inquiry

A legal battle could be triggered if the Cabinet Office fails to hand over diaries, notebooks and a trove of WhatsApp messages.

The Hindu

Active COVID-19 cases in country dip to 3,925

India has logged 288 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have decreased to 3,925 from 4,222, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on June 1.

Chronicle Live

Warning over killer virus many have not heard of that has same symptoms as Covid and flu

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has symptoms including cough, runny nose and nasal congestion - here is what doctors are saying about it

The Independent UK

Singapore prime minister tests positive for COVID again in rare rebound case

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time in less than two weeks, in a rare case of a rebound

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