Year: 2021

The i says NHS staff will receive a 3 per cent pay rise, it has been confirmed – after a day of confusion over whether frontline staff would receive the settlement.

The Telegraph says NHS staff in England, including nurses and hospital consultants, will receive a three per cent pay rise after the Government accepted the recommendations

The Daily Mirror says: SUPERMARKETS last night ­warned Boris Johnson he has just 48 hours to fix the pingdemic or shoppers will face empty shelves.

The Telegraph says the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has been plunged into turmoil after the show director was fired over a joke he made about the Holocaust

The Times says the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympics was fired today over a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.

The Mirror says: In the words of Greta Thunberg, ‘we’re at the beginning of a climate and ecological emergency’ and, across the globe, wildfires, fatal floods, roasting temperatures and our Met Office’s first heat warning suggest the young activist is not wrong.

The i says the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has reportedly banned taking the knee from appearing on its social media channel.

VOA says the U.S. has averaged more than 26,000 new COVID-19 cases per day over the past week — more than double the number it was a month ago

The Mirror says: Tokyo 2020 organisers had asked for a man and woman from each team for the ceremony which will take place tomorrow in the Japanese capital city.

TRT World says hundreds of workers have fled businesses in northern Haiti after demonstrations near the hometown of assassinated president Jovenel Moise