good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by the former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended as a tory mp over allegations he groped two men. mr pincher denies the latest claims, which are reported in several sunday newspapers. borisjohnson is facing questions about how much he knew when he appointed the mp as the deputy chief whip in february. here s our political correspondent helen catt. it was what it s claimed happened on an evening of drinking here at london s carlton club that led to chris pincher s resignation from the government on thursday night and later his suspension as a conservative mp. in today s papers, there are more claims, denied by mr pincher, of incidents at other locations, stretching back a number of years. among them, that he made unwanted physical advances towards three male mps, including once in a parliamentary bar and once in his office. one of those mps, it s reported, t
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because if they give more than two weeks notice, they won t have to pay compensation to those of us who find flights are cancelled. so the next few days are going to be very tricky indeed. staff shortages have been causing long queues at airports and severe problems with baggage handling. after thousands of aviation jobs were lost during the covid pandemic, businesses have struggled to hire new staff in time for the holidays. that s why ministers have said security checks are being turned around in record time for new recruits. the department for transport has even said counterterrorist checks are being processed on average in under ten days. that is half the time it took in march. in a statement, transport secretary grant shapps said.
i have just named a few, i coud carry on listing you places that have been waiting longer than a decade, in some cases, two decades, for replacement of their aged estate. we are really out of line with our european neighbours on this. that was nigel edwards, chief executive of the nuffield trust. the chief executive of the uk health security agency, dame drjenny harries, has said the number of people going to hospital with covid is expected to rise further. the latest official figures show covid 19 infections in the uk had jumped by more than half a million in a week. dr harries was speaking earlier to the bbc s sunday morning programme. whilst we have an armament now of vaccines and anti viral treatment, we do have, as you havejust highlighted, a rise in hospital admissions and occupancy, and that means it s notjust covid we are concerned about but our ability to treat other illnesses as well.