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The women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch is seeking to change the definition of sex. Picture: PA

Trans debate continues to consume Britain despite distinct lack of trans voices

Alert: Asbestos is 'safe' unless it starts to break up or crumbles. The dust can cause cancers.

Asbestos fears in more than half of Scotland's NHS buildings

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Glasgow-based online pharmacy specialist pushes into Germany with latest deal

The current proposed ban to conversion therapy only includes England and Wales. Photo: Hrecheniuk Oleksii / Canva Pro.

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Covid-19 mortality rates among people who have received only two doses of vaccine are higher for those who had their second jab more than six months ago than those double-jabbed more recently, indicating a likely waning of protection from vaccination over time, new analysis shows.

Covid death rates suggest ‘waning protection for long-term double-vaccinated’

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Denis Cairns, 68, had to "blag his way" to a third dose.

Cancer patients forced to 'fight tooth and nail' for Covid vaccine

The alert level has been raised

UK Covid alert level raised following rapid increase in Omicron cases

Sajid Javid has called on the public to get their booster dose before Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Top-up’ immunity and get booster jab before Christmas parties, Brits urged

E-cigarettes could be given to smokers for free on the NHS as part of new plans to help people quit (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images))

Smokers could be given e-cigarettes for free on the NHS

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

Hazel received both her covid vaccinations at an NHS primary care clinic in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, in January and March after being forced to live with her partner in Leeds due to lockdown restrictions.

Scots gran loses £400 holiday due to cross-border jabs glitch

The Covid alert level in the UK has been downgraded to 'level 3' (Photo: Getty Images)

What Covid alert ‘level 3’ means as UK is downgraded ahead of next lockdown phas...

UK Covid-19 alert level has been lowered from Level 4 to Level 3

Tens of thousands of domestic abuse victims at high risk identified by NHS bodie...

How is Scotland's vaccine rollout going?

Analysis: How does Scotland’s vaccine rollout compare to England?

Health Secretary Matt Hancock insisted the warnings came from a "standard letter"

NHS warns of 'significant reduction' in vaccine supply

Health and social care staff queue for a coronavirus vaccine at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, as part of a mass vaccination drive by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Picture date: Saturday January 23, 2021.

Louisa Jordan to remain open after closure of England's Nightingale hospitals

More than 20 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

This is how the UK's Covid vaccine rollout is going - the data so far by nation ...

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren’t warned of Covid infection risk (Photo: Shutterstock)

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren...

The proposed pay rise has been described as "pitiful" (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Proposed 1% pay rise for NHS England branded ‘pitiful’ by nurses union and Labou...

The alert level has been lowered based on new data (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK's Covid alert level has been lowered from 5 to 4 - here's what that means

Icreasing the rollout to 600,000 jabs per day could allow restrictions to lift sooner (Photo: Getty Images)

Daily Covid vaccination rate must double to lift lockdown by May - is it feasibl...

Pitlochry is a popular spot for second homes

Readers Letters: Don't punish second home owners

Asda has announced that they are happy to have conversations about vaccine distribution with the Scottish Government (Picture: Rui Vieira/PA Wire).

Supermarket open to Scottish vaccine roll out

Asda to offer first in-store supermarket Covid vaccinations - here’s how it will...

‘Worst is yet to come’ for Covid-19 infections - what you need to know

The incident has been described as critical (Photo: SWNS).

‘Critical incident’ declared at English hospital due to coronavirus rise

The first Oxford vaccine dose has been given in the UK - here’s the plan for the...

These are the signs of eating disorders in children - as parents are warned that...

More people are hospitalised with Covid in England than ever before

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Coronavirus in UK: Highest ever number of daily cases recorded

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during Prime Minister's Question time (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on November 4, 2020.

MPs back new Coronavirus lockdown for England

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock being interviewed by host Andrew Marr

‘Tipping point’ has arrived, says Matt Hancock, as second wave begins

Boris Johnson unveiled the UK's prospective 'moonshot' testing regime at a daily press briefing on September 9 (Getty Images)

Operation Moonshot: Boris Johnson's new coronavirus mass testing plan

Senior staff nurse Donna Read treats a patient at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert. Picture: Michael Gillen

Tens of thousands suffer from ‘long Covid’ for more than three months

A man in Chicago suffering with persistent hiccups went on to test positive for Covid-19. (Shutterstock)

A man with persistent hiccups was found to also have coronavirus - but are the t...

An employee at a Lanarkshire call centre hit by a Covid-19 outbreak has recalled how staff would breach social distancing rules.

Staff at Lanarkshire call centre were ‘lax’

Here is what a trip to the dentist will look like

Number 10 is to hold daily press briefings in an effort to improve communication on their plans to tackle the spread of Covid-19 (Getty Images)

Matt Hancock press conference: Health Secretary to lead today's coronavirus brie...

This is what you need to know if you're diabetic (Photo: Shutterstock)

There may be a link between coronavirus deaths and diabetes - here’s what doctor...

Medical experts are currently investigating a possible link between coronavirus and an inflammatory disease found among infants (Photo: Shutterstock)

Kawasaki disease and coronavirus: rash and other symptoms of the condition that ...

NHS England said the newborn baby had underlying health conditions, and was the youngest of the 332 people who have died of the virus in England in the last 24 hours.

6-week-old baby among latest coronavirus victims in England

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of confusing the message over lockdown measures (Getty Images)

Over 70s lockdown rules: government guidelines for the elderly explained as Matt...

Michael Gove speaking during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19).

UK ministers outline Covid-19 exit plan

Government hits target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day

Public attendance at A&E units across Scotland has plummetted during lockdown. Picture: Michael Gillen

Scots ‘risking their lives’ by avoiding A&E departments, warn charities

Scottish Government urged to publish ethnicity data of COVID-19 victims

Scottish Government urged to publish ethnicity data of COVID-19 victims

UK Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick updates the nation on the Covid-19 pandemic today. PIC: PIPPA FOWLES/10 Downing Street/AFP via Getty Images)

UK reports 5,526 more Coronavirus cases - but hospital admissions go down

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola Sturgeon: 'Unconscionable' to divert Scottish PPE supplies to England

A picture shows contractors on the site outside the new NHS Louisa Jordan hospital at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

See inside the new NHS Louisa Jordan hospital

Military personnel outside St Thomas' Hospital, in central London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Two teenagers feared to be youngest virus victims as UK death toll soars

Military personnel outside St Thomas' Hospital, in central London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus

19 year-old becomes UK's youngest healthy virus victim

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during the press conference, at 10 Downing Street, in London, on the government's coronavirus action plan. Picture: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire

In full: everything discussed by Boris Johnson during his daily briefing

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Chief Constable Iain Livingstone made the comments at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority

Chief Constable states Police Scotland is 'institutionally racist'

Nicola Sturgeon speaking to the media outside her home. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Police chief warns against 'uninformed speculation' over SNP finances probe

First Minister Humza Yousaf during a visit to Bellshill in North Lanarkshire ahead of First Minister's Questions. Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire

FMQs: Yousaf says funding pressure no 'excuse' for police 'institutional racism'