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    An NHS advice website has run outdated coronavirus information that goes against new government guidance. NHS 111, which is designed to help patients by allowing them to check on their symptoms and get advice, runs a questionnaire that asks users if they have been to certain parts of the world affected by coronavirus. Previous government advice recommended self-isolation for visitors to northern Italian towns that were first put under lockdown. But with the entire country now under restrictions, that advice has been updated to say that any traveller who has been to anywhere in Italy since yesterday should isolate even without symptoms. However, the NHS 111 questionnaire still tells users they don’t need to self-isolate, even if the user ticks yes when asked if the...

    PM Boris Johnson warned the UK will not be able to contain the coronavirus outbreak today as he confirmed advice will be stepped up to delay the spread. The PM teed up a toughening of the response as he gave a press conference in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee. But he still stopped short of shifting the official strategy from the contain phase to focus on efforts to delay the spread. We remain in the contain phase of the outbreak, but watching what is happening around the world our scientists believe that containment is unlikely to work on its own, he said. There has been speculation that soon people will be advised to work from home where possible, and vulnerable people the elderly or those with long-term health problems ...

    Boris Johnson is to be investigated by Parliament’s sleaze watchdog over his £15,000 winter break to the Caribbean, according to reports. The Prime Minister and his partner Carrie Symonds accepted accommodation for a private break in St Vincent and the Grenadines as a post-election victory escape. But confusion reigned after Mr Johnson declared in the register of MPs’ interests that he had accepted “accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000”, citing businessman David Ross as the provider. A spokesman for Mr Ross then denied that the co-founder of the Carphone Warehouse had stumped up any money. But the Conservative Party donor’s spokesman later clarified his stance, agreeing it was a benefit in kind to the PM and Ms Symonds during th...

    The threat of a Tube strike escalated today as 10,000 staff began a ballot in a dispute over pay. Members of the RMT union, including drivers, will vote and are expected to endorse a strike call. The ballot result is due at the end of the month. Union leaders at the RMT and Aslef have rejected a four-year pay deal. They have agreed to meet London Underground management at conciliation service Acas next Tuesday but there is no new deal on the table. More than 2,400 Tube drivers belonging to Aslef will conclude their own ballot later next week and are also forecast to back strike action. The first combined stoppages by the unions could begin in mid-April. Transport for London said the pay deal guarantees above-inflation rises. RMT leader Mick Cash said LU had failed ...

    The billionaire ruler of Dubai arranged the kidnapping of two of his adult daughters and forcibly returned them to the Gulf state after they attempted to flee abroad, a UK court has found. In a case described by the judge as "extraordinary," the family division of the High Court in London also found that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum conducted a "campaign of fear and intimidation" against his former wife, Jordanian Princess Haya bint al-Hussein. The court determined that the sheikh organized abductions of his two daughters on three occasions including one from the historic UK city of Cambridge and another in international waters off the coast of India. The findings were revealed after a series of hearings in London involving Princess Haya and can now be dis...

    A new dossier of claims that more than 300 Tories have been Islamophobic has been submitted to the human rights watchdog to persuade it to investigate the party. The Muslim Council of Britain (CB) has handed the Equality and Human Rights Commission a detailed file including claims involving MPs, councillors, members and government advisers. The document collects together scores of previously publicised incidents and allegations while uncovering new claims, including: A former councillor calling for unconditional surrender by Muslims, who they label “brutes who beat, kill and maim young women; A local party association chair who called for Muslims to be banned; A member who called for Muslims to be thrown from bridges; Another member who called for th...

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived at one of their last official engagements together before they quit royal life. Harry and Meghan are attending the Endeavour Fund Awards at Mansion House in central London to celebrate the sporting and adventure achievements of wounded, sick and injured service personnel. It is the first time Meghan has carried out a public royal duty in the wake of the Megxit crisis. The evening event is the couple’s first joint official appearance since announcing their decision to step down as senior royals, which takes effect on March 31. Sheltering from the rain under an umbrella as they arrived on Thursday, the duke wore a navy blue suit while American former actress Meghan was dressed in a light blue fitted dress. The couple were...

    The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has risen to 51, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. The jump comes after the number of confirmed cases in the UK hit 39 yesterday, with a school in Devon confirming that a pupil had been diagnosed with coronavirus after travelling from northern Italy. The 12 new cases emerged today and include eight patients who had recently travelled from Italy, one from Germany, one from Singapore, one from Japan and one from Iran. They are from London, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Bury, Wirral, Greater Manchester, Humberside and Kent. Mr Hancock said: We've responded to a wide range of disease outbreaks in the past, the NHS has been preparing for a pandemic virus for over a decade, we have world class expertise to make...

    A woman who made more than 1,200 nuisance calls to the Met Police in attempts to get herself arrested has been jailed for ten weeks. Jelena Bobrova, 54, has pestered police operators for the last three years in rambling 999 calls, clogging up the emergency line and costing the force more than £10,000. Despite being handed a criminal behaviour order in November last year, Bobrova continued making the nuisance calls including 39 times in the space of just four hours on February 16. Scotland Yard said Bobrova appeared to be rambling and challenged police to arrest hereach time she rang 999. Bobrova initially denied making the calls, trying to blame them on a technical glitch, but has now been sentenced to ten weeks in prison by Croydon magistrates. Sergeant Terry Co...