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Nearly 4,000 Amazon staff were incorrectly told they had Covid with many sent home to self-isolate after £22bn ‘world beating’ NHS Test and Trace system sent them WRONG alert Amazon uses PCR tests on staff at work as part of its own private scheme Staff told by firm they tested negative before Amazon passed data … Read more
Talk about bad timing! Australian magazine New Idea hits newsstands with front-page story ‘claiming Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have split’… right as the Sussexes announce they are expecting their second child The California-based Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were expecting another child on Sunday evening (GMT) Hours before the news broke, Australian … Read more
Fans of Charli XCX started the ‘HereForCharli’ hashtag over the weekend to send support the singer’s way in wake of the tragic passing of her pop star pal Sophie Xeon. But TikTok superstar Charli D’Amelio, seeing the hashtag trending on Twitter, mistakenly assumed the endless string of heartfelt messages were meant for her. ‘i am looking through … Read more
One in four homeowners is paying their lender’s highest mortgage rate – and some even think it helps them pay off their loan faster… Borrowers could save £4,080 per year by ditching their standard variable rate This is the ‘default’ rate when your initial term ends and it can be up to 6% Some thought … Read more
Check those receipts! Hundreds of BP customers wrongly told they’d won £2,000 of points after blunder – but petrol giant WILL pay out Many BP customers received a receipt saying they’d won 400,000 points This equates to £2,000 – but BP said there was a third party error Now the firm has agreed to honour … Read more
Hopes for future: Ben Ryan with baby Jacob before his diagnosis At 26 Ben Ryan was happy, healthy and successful. He had just been promoted at his work as an engineer and, in February 2015, he and his partner had their first baby together. But his life changed for ever when he was diagnosed with … Read more
‘End this witch-hunt now’: Former soldier Lee Clegg, whose conviction for murder in Northern Ireland was quashed after he spent two years in prison, calls on veterans of the Troubles to be protected from alleged historic offences Lee Clegg was jailed over two teenagers deaths in 1993 at checkpoint in Belfast But he was released … Read more
More than 1,300 people are wrongly diagnosed with coronavirus and told to self-isolate after NHS lab error The DHSC said 1,311 people were incorrectly told they had tested positive There was an issue with a batch of testing chemicals, making the results void It is not known whether the error affected regional figures of infection rates … Read more
Catherine Jones, 35, a nurse in the cardiology ward at Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales died from cancer in 2016 after mistakenly being given the all-clear by doctors at the hospital [File photo] A dedicated nurse developed cancer and died three years after having a cyst removed because doctors mistakenly gave her the all … Read more
A rapid Covid-19 antibody test bought by the Government may wrongly tell one in five people they have had the coronavirus. Number 10 placed an order for one million AbC-19 tests made by UK-based company Abingdon Health in October to be used for research purposes, in order to paint a better picture of how far … Read more