A teacher who fired a staple gun at students, dragged a pupil across the floor and made a “stupid comment” about a vagina while in school has been banned from the profession.
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Facebook is closing its three London offices and telling staff to work from home after an employee was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Sports authorities and broadcasters have been summoned by the government for discussions on coronavirus contingency plans – as the Premier League considers banning over-70s at matches.
Forty-eight new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK over the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 164.
Brexit has resulted in more than £4bn of additional costs to the taxpayer, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.
A woman in her 70s has become the first person in the UK to die after being diagnosed with coronavirus – as it was revealed she caught the virus in Britain.
Connor Reed, a 25-year-old from Llandudno in North Wales, was working at a school in the Chinese city of Wuhan when he began to feel “a bit sniffly”.
Harry and Meghan have appeared in public together in the UK for the first time since they announced they would quit royal duties and make a new life in Canada.
The number of coronavirus cases in the UK has reached 116, as Ireland reported a spate of new patients with the virus.
Door handles, escalator handrails, self-service checkouts; objects we touch every day without much thought that could become key to containing the spread of the coronavirus.