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Matt Hancock ‘rejected expert advice on Covid testing for care homes’ The Metro says Matt Hancock rejected advice to test all residents going into English care homes for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic, a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApps allegedly shows. Chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the former health secretary there should be testing for ‘all going into care homes’, according to an investigation by the Daily Telegraph. But the leaked messages suggest he rejected the guidance, telling an aide the move just ‘muddies the waters’, and introduced mandatory testing for those coming…

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Matt Hancock scandal: the leaked texts throw Westminster into chaos and country feels betrayal The former health secretary Matt Hancock rejected scientific advice to test for Covid all residents going into English care homes, according to the Daily Telegraph. The paper has in its possession a leaked trove of over 100,000 WhatsApp messages and the first claims from the paper, titled ‘The Lockdown Files’ is putting Matt Hancock under scrutiny for his actions during the peak of the pandemic as UK health secretary. Among the allegations is the claim that he disregarded advice from England’s top medical officer, Professor Sir…

It’s a sinister heritage: tens of thousands of skulls and other human remains are stored in German museums and research institutes. Many were taken during the colonial era and researchers are now trying to source them in order to send them back to their countries of origin, mostly in Africa. Other European countries, such as Belgium and France, have similar collections. The French government is now planning to legislate on the issue later this year. Our Berlin and Brussels correspondents report.

The parliamentary Rugby World Cup will be held in Paris in September.

Aside from vowing to not make Call Of Duty an Xbox-only series, Microsoft says it has no interest in adding exclusive content to the games.

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EU funds related to agriculture and cohesion programmes saw the largest share of expenditure fraud, the prosecutor said in its annual report.

Eugen Coman shaved his head the day before allegedly stabbing Leonid Laboshin 27 times and was found wearing a suit, prosecutors say.