Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Tom Espiner Role, Reporter, BBC News June 21, 2024 07:51 BST Updated 2 hours ago Government borrowing reached the highest level since the Covid crisis in May, but was lower than the British budget watchdog had predicted. £15bn of loans were taken out last month, which was £800m … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Tom Espiner Role, Reporter, BBC News June 21, 2024 07:51 BST Updated 6 minutes ago Government borrowing reached the highest level since the Covid crisis in May, but was lower than the British budget watchdog had predicted. £15bn of loans were taken out last month, which was £800m … Read more
Jess Christman, who runs a Scottish timber business, recalls banks “throwing money at him” during the Covid-19 pandemic as Rishi Sunak, then the chancellor, tried to help small businesses avoid collapse. Christman, who runs Black Isle Firewood, near Inverness, which produces firewood, sawn timber and huts for the tourism market, eventually took out a government-backed … Read more
Scientists have discovered a link between a complication of the COVID-19 vaccine and the complication caused by a rare ‘cold blood disease’. The research, led by Flinders University and international experts, deepens our understanding of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (known as VITT). Following the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, governments around … Read more