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Lucy Letby faces spending the rest of her life in prison when she is sentenced on Monday for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more at the Countess of Chester hospital. The neonatal nurse, the worst child serial killer in modern British history, would become only the third woman to be given a whole-life order should the judge pass such a sentence, as has been suggested, at the hearing at Manchester crown court. Letby has previously indicated she does not intend to return to court to hear her sentence passed, nor follow the hearing via videolink from prison.…

Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, the UK’s former deputy chief medical officer who became a household name during the pandemic, has become a senior medical consultant to the Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna. Known by the initials “JVT” and remembered for the striking metaphors he used during Downing Street briefings on the progress of the virus, he took up the role as part-time clinical adviser to the American biotechnology company on 2 May. Van-Tam, a professor who was knighted in the 2022 new year honours, was a member of the government’s vaccine taskforce during the pandemic, which made decisions on supply contracts for…

Supermarkets, pubs and TV advertisers are preparing to enjoy a bumper weekend as football fans rush to celebrate the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday morning. As many as 13.7 million people are expected to tune in when the Lionesses take on Spain in the highly anticipated fixture in Australia – the first time a senior England football team has appeared in a World Cup final since 1966. However, as Sarina Wiegman’s squad steel themselves for the big match in Sydney, fans back home are set to provide an estimated £185m boost to the UK economy, according to a report from the…

Law enforcement officials in Georgia say they are investigating threats targeting members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies, after private information about jurors was published online. On Thursday, the Fulton county sheriff’s office announced that it was “aware that personal information of members of the Fulton county grand jury is being shared on various platforms”. On Monday the Fulton county grand jury returned a 41-count indictment charging Trump and others with illegally conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. According to the Independent, several users on Trump’s rightwing social media platform Truth Social posted the…

With candidate Ron DeSantis facing withering attacks over a leaked presidential debate strategy memo, commentator Ann Coulter—who had him on her “Unsafe” podcast on Aug. 17—had this debate advice for him. “I want [you] to concentrate on the three issues on which no one can beat you,” said Ms. Coulter, an unabashed cheerleader for the Florida governor. “And they are the three most important issues facing the country. And that is immigration, crime, and COVID.” She’s not just any endorsement catch for him. Ms. Coulter’s 2015 book on illegal immigration, “Adios America,” gave Donald Trump the ammunition for what became…

Twitter has handed over a voluminous set of data from former President Donald Trump’s account to special counsel Jack Smith, newly unsealed documents show. Twitter, now known as X, gave Mr. Smith’s team data including deleted direct messages, other direct messages, draft posts, and information on the locations of users who posted to the account, lawyers for the company said in a Feb. 9 closed-door court hearing, a transcript of which was just made public. The data included what Twitter described as “confidential communications,” or messages between President Trump and his senior advisers. Twitter challenged a warrant issued by U.S. District…

Rishi Sunak has pledged to stick to the pension triple lock despite signs the guarantee to older people will cost the Treasury an extra £10bn next year – £2.5bn more than estimated in the spring budget. The prime minister insisted he was comfortable with pensioners receiving the full annual uplift. The state pension costs the taxpayer £124bn this year and is on course to rise by a further 8% in April, according to the latest economic data. “Of course the government is committed to its policy on the triple lock,” Sunak told ITV, brushing aside concerns about the affordability of…

Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith on Aug. 14 objected to a request by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to set up a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) to allow him and his legal team to discuss the classified documents in the case against him, arguing the move would amount to “special treatment.” In a court filing (pdf) to U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, prosecutors with Mr. Smith pushed back against President Trump’s request, claiming that the 2024 Republican presidential candidate was seeking “special treatment that no other criminal defendant would receive and that is unsupported by law or precedent.” Prosecutors further…

NHS England has launched a campaign to teach people common heart attack signs, as admissions in England rise by more 7,000 compared to the year before. NHS figures released on Tuesday show that there were more than 84,000 hospital heart attack admissions in England during 2021–22, up by more than 7,000 compared to the previous year when fewer people came forward for care during COVID-19 lockdowns. The NHS said that admissions for heart attacks have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Cardiovascular disease is the second biggest killer in England. The data were released as health chiefs launched a campaign urging those…

A doctors group is questioning the ethics of a partnership between Moderna and NHS centres around England in a clinical trial of a new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for children and adults over 12. Doctors from HART, an organisation that was set up to share concerns about policy relating to COVID-19, have expressed concerns about the trial as they believe COVID-19 vaccine boosters are unlikely benefit to children. Furthermore, they have also questioned payment incentives. In June, NextCOVE, a Phase 3 clinical trial conducted by Moderna, commenced. This was to study a new investigational vaccine as a booster dose in children and adults…