Author: News Desk

Downing Street staff were ‘told to clean up their phones’ in a bid to remove data that could indicate lockdown parties were held at Number 10, The Independent reports.

The Metro leads on the backlash over “partygate” – as 66% of people in a snap poll demanded the prime minister resign.

The Guardian says Quebec has announced plans to impose a “health tax” on residents who refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccination.

The Independent says The deadly Philadelphia house fire that killed 12 people including eight children last week is believed to have started when a five-year-old boy set a Christmas tree on fire.

The Metro says The UK is the closest of any country in the northern hemisphere to be ‘exiting the Covid pandemic’, an expert has said.

The Guardian says Over the course of her first full season as a full-time professional on the WTA tour, Emma Raducanu will come to experience all too much frustration and disappointment as she adjusts to life on the road.

Poland covid cases – Poland becomes the latest EU country to surpass 100,000 Covid deaths, a number that was surpassed as the country is bracing for a renewed surge of infections fuelled by the Omicron variant. Nearly a quarter of those deaths — some 24,000 — occurred in the most recent wave of infection that began in October, a period in which vaccines have been widely available in the central European nation of 38 million people. Niedzielski said over 18,000 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, making this “the most difficult situation compared to other waves.” Poland has struggled through the pandemic…

The Independent says There is only a “50-50” chance that Lewis Hamilton returns to Formula One for the 2022 season, according to four-time world champion Alain Prost.

The Metro says Newcastle United see former Everton and Manchester United star Marouane Fellaini as an ‘ideal’ signing.

The Catholic Church in Italy slams Nazi flags on a coffin at the funeral. A coffin outside the St. Lucia church was draped in a swastika symbol on a flag and paraded through the courtyard. In Rome, on Tuesday a Catholic church strongly condemned as “offensive and unacceptable” a funeral procession outside a church in the Italian capital in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag. Photos and videos of the scene outside St. Lucia church following the Monday funeral service were published by the Italian online news portal Open. They showed around two dozen people gathered outside…