Factories across the country are on the verge of shutting down due to isolation warnings from the test and trace app, the UK’s manufacturing union Unite has claimed.
Two pharmaceutical companies have been fined more than £260m by the UK’s competition watchdog after the pair colluded to overcharge the NHS for almost a decade.
New workplace guidelines published by the government just days before most remaining COVID rules are lifted in England have been criticised as a "recipe for chaos".
There are more job vacancies now than there were before the pandemic, official figures show, as unemployment edges slowly down after a year of job losses.
Thirty people are missing following the collapse of six homes after heavy rain triggered severe flooding in western Germany, according to a local media report.
