Indian variant: Live updates as Boris Johnson announces second doses of vaccines to be accelerated
The Prime Minister is holding a Covid-19 press conference from Downing Street to update the nation after four UK deaths linked to the new variant
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a Covid-19 press conference after it was announced four people have died in the UK with the Indian variant of Covid-19.
According to data published by Public Health England (PHE) the four deaths, which are the first known deaths in the UK from the variant, took place between May, 5 and May, 12.
Hundreds of potentially dangerous weapons recovered by police amid warning knife crime ruins lives
Northumbria Police teams across the force took part in Operation Sceptre to clampdown on knife crime and violence in local communities
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice More than 360 knives and potentially dangerous items were recovered by Northumbria Police after the force urged people to surrender their weapons.
Northumbria Police have urged the public that ‘there’s always a choice’ after the North East force joined a nationwide campaign to reduce the impact of knife crime around the country. Earlier this week, the police launched a week long project named Operation Sceptre and it’s hoped the project can help the region clampdown on the number of knife crimes that take place both in the North East as well as further afield. The scheme has also been designed to help get more knives off the streets as well as also ensuring police officers are able to go into school classrooms to show young people that carrying a weapon is not the correct decision to make.
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