four languages she speaks? i have lost count. please four languages she speaks? i have lost count. please let four languages she speaks? i have lost count. please let me - four languages she speaks? i have lost count. please let me be i four languages she speaks? i have lost count. please let me be her. lost count. please let me be her when i grow up! patients at a hospice in dorchester have been treated to a surprise visit from one of the uk s best known actors and his horse. doc martin star martin clunes and his sidekick bruce joined patients and staff for a special kind of therapy at the centre. doc martin is not great on bedside manner! but this was rather special. david allard was there. hey, is that doc martin with a giant horse? is he a vet now? actually, no. the grouchy gp hasn t changed profession for the new series of the itv drama, it s actor martin cleans of the itv drama, it s actor martin clunes and his heavy horse bruce paying a surprise visit to weldmar hospice in
of government projects, says the programme s outcomes have been muddled and it hasn t achieved a number of its main objectives despite costing the taxpayer millions. the nhs test and trace programme has been one of the most expensive health programmes delivered during the pandemic. it has cost £37 billion over two years, equal to nearly a fifth of the entire nhs england budget. when it comes to test results, just 14% of 691 million lateral flow tests distributed by test and trace were registered. and in periods of pressure, like december 2020, just 17% of people were receiving test results within 24 hours. we found it very difficult to see what it had achieved for the 37 billion. it set out very bold aims, it failed on many of its own terms. crucially now, its responsibilities are in the new uk health security agency. but that s still got a lot to prove. the main objective for test and trace was to help break chains of covid 19 transmission and enable