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AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?
At a tense meeting with senior civil servants on the afternoon of 29 January, the chair of AstraZeneca, Shaun Grady, pulled the plug on a planned £450m expansion of its childhood flu vaccine factory in Merseyside – bringing a year and a half of negotiations to an abrupt halt.
The …
Why does the US have it in for gig workers?
The US seems to have it in for gig workers and those who use them.
California – the fifth-largest economy in the world – has significantly curtailed the ability of companies located there to hire independent contractors and freelancers in lieu of employees. The US Department of Labor has issued …
Nottingham attacks: victims’ families to meet Keir Starmer
Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?
Noland Arbaugh’s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids’ summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can’t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have …
‘Strong reasonable doubt’ over Lucy Letby insulin convictions, experts say
The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of a 100-page study on the case.
Prof Geoff Chase, one of the world’s foremost experts on the …
Digested week: cheap meat and Corfe Castle – a toast to Brexit five years on | John Crace
Sweden to tighten gun laws in wake of Örebro mass shooting
Sweden’s government has announced plans to strengthen its gun laws, including by restricting access to semi-automatic weapons, after the country’s worst mass shooting.
, west of Stockholm. Police have not said what type of weapon …Jockey Michael O’Sullivan in intensive care after fall at Thurles
Michael O’Sullivan, who was airlifted to hospital after being injured in a fall at Thurles on Thursday, remains in intensive care, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board said in an update on the jockey’s condition on Friday.
O’Sullivan was riding Wee Charlie in a two-mile handicap chase when he was involved …
Friday briefing: The Bank of England interest rate cut suggests there are more gloomy times ahead
Good morning. As anticipated, on
Thursday the Bank of England cut UK interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5%
, their lowest level since June 2023. The cut, the third in six months, will affect mortgages, loans and savings, and offer some relief to borrowers.The Bank’s monetary policy …
US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say
The result of the sudden 90-day suspension of USAid funding – which accounts …