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Urgent review ordered into asylum seeker taxi costs after BBC investigation
The home secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis to transfer asylum seekers from their hotels to appointments. The move by Shabana Mahmood follows a BBC investigation that found some migrants having to travel long distances on journeys costing hundreds of pounds. One asylum seeker told the BBC he…
Urgent investigation ordered into power outage that closed Heathrow Airport
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has ordered an urgent investigation into the power outage caused by a substation fire that shut Heathrow Airport on Friday. The investigation, led by the National Energy System Operator (NESO), would build a “clear picture” of the incident and UK’s energy resilience more broadly to prevent it “from ever happening again”,…
Urgent CDC Data on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
Urgent CDC Data on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and public health experts warn By Amy Maxmen & KFF Health News Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily…