Pregnant women were today urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough amid a worrying surge in cases that has already killed five babies.
As a few as a quarter of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab – offered between 16 and 32 weeks — in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are seen in other parts of the capital and Birmingham.
Experts today warned the outbreak could be the biggest ‘of the last 40 years’.
Almost 3,000 cases have
Holidaymakers have been urged to avoid contact with unwell or dead birds over fears they could be infected with bird flu.
The ongoing UK outbreak — caused by the H5N1 strain — has seen up to one million birds struck down by the virus, with experts fearing it is on the brink of taking off in humans.
The National Trust, which owns around 800 miles of Britain’s coastline, is urging visitors to the country’s beaches be wary of bird flu.
Lawyers representing the Government today urged the Covid Inquiry to go easy on them over any pandemic mistakes.
Officials in charge of the long-awaited probe were asked not to use a ‘retroscope’ in judging errors may early on in the crisis.
Lawyers also called upon bosses to acknowledge that decisions were made during the ‘biggest peacetime crisis the country has faced’, describing the pandemic era as an ‘all-consuming period akin to a war’ that required ‘Herculean’ efforts.
The Department of
‘House of Horrors’ abuse survivor Jordan Turpin has revealed she had to beg for a job at Taco Bell after being left ‘homeless’ and unable to afford food when she was kicked out of foster care.
Jordan, now 21, and her 12 siblings, spent 17 years being chained up, starved, and beaten by their parents, David and Louise Turpin.
When Jordan managed to escape in 2018 by bravely climbing through a window and calling for help at a payphone, the
