The First Minister said that face coverings were ‘not the biggest handicap’ that people were having to endure as the country attempts to recover from Covid.

The UK Health Security Agency today said BA.2 is now a ‘variant under investigation’. This category is reserved for variants that are spreading in the UK.

The judge told the cancer patient his yard was ‘shameful’ and said ‘if I could give you jail time on this, I would’. After berating him, she issued a $100 fine that his family paid on Wednesday.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to announce plans this week to stop businesses from keeping the service charge when customers pay it on bank cards.

Susan Sice, 72, was completing a four-hour work trip just nine kilometres into NSW when Queensland changed its border policy and shut her out, forcing the pensioner to stay at a caravan park.

Just 1.52 per cent of people who got the Oxford-made vaccine were admitted to wards after they caught the virus, compared to 1.99 per cent of those who got Pfizer’s jab.

The shut down is due to end on July 16 but Premier Gladys Berejiklian has left the door open for another extension to snuff out the highly infectious Delta strain.

Charlotte, Sophie, Hanne, Hunter and Finlay entered the court side by side as their boyfriend, James-Robert Davis, made a bid for freedom on Wednesday afternoon.