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People felt they ‘failed’ loved ones over funerals during pandemic, inquiry told

A charity chief has told the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry people still feel guilty for not being able to invite family and friends to funerals.

Evening Standard

Quilts created during Covid pandemic to be celebrated in new exhibition

When the coronavirus pandemic began, Richard Kenyon thought up a plan to create a sense of community through quilting.

Evening Standard

Wedding kiss restrictions branded ‘bizarre’ by humanist leader at inquiry

The Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry’s worship and life events impact hearings began on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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Whooping cough is making a comeback, but the vaccine provides powerful protection

Whooping cough, a bacterial infection that can be especially dangerous for babies and young children, is on the rise. Already in 2025 the U.S. has recorded 8,485 cases. That’s compared with 4,266 cases during the same period in 2024.

The Conversation

Co-working spaces aren’t just about convenience – they bring a whole range of benefits for employees and communities

When you think of co-working spaces – where workers from different industries come together to share a convenient workplace – you might picture a group of young freelancers hunched over laptops. But today’s co-working spaces have evolved into something more powerful – particularly in a world still reshuffling office work…

The Conversation

Greater share of US losing faith in health guidance, poll says - Roll Call

Both parties say they’d like the CDC to prioritize preventing chronic disease and protecting against new viruses with pandemic potential.

Roll Call

Starmer claims voters being ‘conned’ by Tories and Reform UK as parties are planning a coalition – as it happened

PM says supporters of both groups are being misled and a tie-up would be a ‘disaster’ for Britain

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Ministers launch resilience academy to prepare for future crises such as Covid

The UK Resilience Academy will train more than 4,000 people working in both public services and the private sector each year to deal with crises.

The Independent UK

Five years ago Liverpool fans were urged to stay home — on Sunday Anfield was a sea of red

Fans remarked that Liverpool’s latest win was totally different to its pandemic victory

The Independent UK

Why seniors’ care should have been on the election agenda

I was hopeful that when the COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the plight of senior citizens, the attention might result in meaningful change. Instead, seniors seem to be getting blamed for high costs and high living.

The Conversation

How investors can navigate European markets through uncertainty

Credit spreads have widened, but so far, only to their five-year historical average levels, not nearly to the wides seen during the pandemic period and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Gordon Kerr writes.

Euronews

London leaver: 'we swapped our Home Counties rental for a four-bed house in Northamptonshire'

Even though she was born and bred in the London suburbs Reanne Witter jumped at the chance the pandemic gave her to try out a new life in the country, swapping her childhood bedroom for a four-bedroom house in the process.

Evening Standard

Vinterior: meet the boss who quit finance to set up a thriving vintage furniture site

Sandrine Zhang Ferron on how she created her online business, from building the website to signing up 100,000 customers

The Guardian - UK

Trump Trade War Update: Firm Predicts 'Empty Shelves' And Recession By June

President Donald Trump's trade war has ocean shippers changing course.

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Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift

Florida has undergone a dramatic political transformation over the past decade from a swing state to Republican stronghold.

The Guardian - UK

‘I had rose-tinted spectacles’: UK city dwellers on relocating during the pandemic

As London once again becomes the most searched-for location on Rightmove, which is better, rural or city life?

The Conversation

It’s World Immunization Week. How prepared is Canada if vaccines are needed for a new pandemic?

With the global resurgence of many vaccine-preventable diseases, World Immunization Week (April 24-30) provides a timely opportunity for Canadians to reflect on the goal of “Immunization for All.”

The Conversation

How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and 4 percentage points below 2019 levels.

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Evening Standard

Number of school suspensions and exclusions in England has risen in a year

The rise comes amid warnings of challenging behaviour in classrooms following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Conversation

Fake cures and vaccine passports for sale: the conspiracy communities in Brazil monetising the anti-vax movement – podcast

Editor’s note: The Conversation learned after publishing this podcast that one of the interviewees, Igor Sacramento, passed away in late April. He was interviewed on 27 March for this episode. We’re deeply saddened to learn of his death and send our deepest sympathies to his friends, family and colleagues.

AAP

Ambulance bosses accused of pandemic funeral cover-up

While residents were forced to remain locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic, ambulance staff were hosting a secret funeral, which breached rules.

The Independent UK

Deadliest terror attack in decades is a huge blow to Modi’s Kashmir tourism drive

Analysis: Tourism workers say lives they painstakingly rebuilt after Indian government’s 2019 security clampdown and the Covid pandemic are crumbling once again

The Guardian - UK

Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases

Evening Standard

Government borrowing surge means public debt mountain now equals £95,300 per household

Borrowing total was the third highest on record behind only the pandemic year of 2021 and the year following the global financial crisis

The Independent UK

Trump administration to resume defaulted student loan collections

Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt has announced that the Department of Education will resume student loan collections from those in default from May 5, after being paused in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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