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  Many workers employed across the £37bn NHS test-and-trace service are being paid through networks of opaque small companies that experts fear could be defrauding the Treasury via a notorious tax scheme. Investigation was carried out after sources working at Covid-19 call centres, testing sites, mobile testing units and laboratories raised concerns about their payslips and employment terms. Headed by the Conservative peer Dido Harding, NHS test and trace has become one of the biggest sources of new jobs during the pandemic, with a workforce of 50,000. Most of its staff are supplied not by the National Health Service, but by outsourcing giants including Serco and G4S, and dozens of recruitment agencies in a broad contracting network.  Tax experts and unions fear weak controls by outsourcers and government agencies, and a complex chain of companies supplying labour for the service, which was created from scratch a year ago, have raised questions over the transparency of the sys...

  Police were quick to reassure the public after an  elite unit officer was arrested for the alleged kidnapping and murder of 'missing woman  on her way home, and investigators looking for her have found human remains Hope has gone in  search of Sarah Everard, 33, after  Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick , announced that the police had made the discovery in a wood of Kent.  Dick said the marketing manager went missing from Clapham, south-west London on Wednesday last week was "every family's worst nightmare," while the arrest of a duty officer  sent " shock waves and anger through the public and across the Met. "PC Wayne Couzens, 48, was arrested  Tuesday at his home in Deal, Kent on suspicion of kidnapping Everard, who disappeared after leaving a friend's home at around 9 p.m. on March 3  and starting a 50-minute walk home. Scotland Yard said on Thursday Couzens was taken to hospital after sustaining a head injury while in ...

Christopher Eccleston, who played the ninth Doctor, says producers should replace Cybermen with Cyberwomen. In the show, the evil cyborgs turn humans into more Cybermen. The actor, who starred for one series in 2005, also wants the show to look at history from a female perspective. He said Jodie Whittaker, who took over the role in 2017, should also meet key figures such as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Eccleston, 57, told Doctor Who magazine: ‘It’s great that we have a female Doctor... we should take that further in the way we look at history. Look at it through a female lens.’ Although a Cyberwoman did appear in spin-off series Torchwood in 2006, there has never been one in Doctor Who. Eccleston added: ‘It’s high time we had a Cyberwoman – I think we really need to address that. The Doctor with a Cyberwoman – that dynamic, feminine element of himself... his flirtatious nature... would be great with a Cyberwoman.’  Jodie Whittaker was cast as the first female Doctor in 2017.

  A  young woman who went to the doctor for a sore throat discovered she actually had a deadly cancer that quickly spread from her lymph nodes to her bones, stomach, and ovaries. Dani Link, who came to Australia from Ontario, Canada, in 2019, was living in Byron Bay with her boyfriend Jack for little more than a year in February when she started getting sick. Thinking it was the flu or tonsillitis that was going around the coastal NSW town, the 24-year-old went to the GP and took a range of different antibiotics for about a month - before a lump formed in her neck and started to grow. Following a series of scans and biopsies, Dani received the heartbreaking news last week that her sore throat was caused by Burkitt lymphoma - a fast-moving cancer that usually affects children and people over 60. 'I  originally had a gut feeling that everything would be all right - that I things weren't over for me, but I've had to accept that this is life-threatening,' she said. 'It...

  Manager Roy Hodgson will leave Crystal Palace when his contract expires at the end of the season. The 73-year-old former England boss said: "The time is proper to step away from the rigours of top-flight Premier League football." Hodgson has been in charge of Palace since September 2017. His last match will be in opposition to Liverpool, one of his former clubs, at Anfield on Sunday. "It's been a particularly rewarding length of my soccer life and profession to have been in a position to spend these remaining 4 seasons with Palace," stated Hodgson, whose last game at Selhurst Park will be in opposition to Arsenal on Wednesday. "I experience now that at the give up of some other profitable season, in which we have secured our Premier League status, the second is right for me to step down from my obligations of being a full-time manager. "I have had  a whole lot of support from my wife and family in the course of my profession and I have been taking in...