| Police officer arrested over Sarah Everard disappearance |
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| | | Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old who lives in south London, was last seen a week ago. As part of the search, police have visited 750 homes in the area, taken 120 calls from the public, searched drains, and used sniffer dogs. On Tuesday night, a Metropolitan Police officer was arrested in Kent over her disappearance. A woman was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said: "The arrest this evening is a serious and significant development. We will continue to work with all speed on this investigation but the fact that the arrested man is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing."
Ms Everard, who is from York and went to Durham University, left a friend's flat in Leathwaite Road at 21:00 GMT on 3 March. She is believed to have walked through Clapham Common towards her home in Brixton. She was last seen via doorbell camera at around 21:30. | |
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| 'No clear impact' from £37bn Test and Trace |
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| The impact of NHS Test and Trace is still unclear - despite the UK government setting aside £37bn for it over two years, MPs have warned. The Public Accounts Committee said Test and Trace was supposed to stop lockdowns - but since its creation there have been two more. It said the spending was "unimaginable" and warned the taxpayer could not be treated like an "ATM machine".
But the government said the system was working. And Baroness Dido Harding, head of the National Institute for Health Protection, which runs the system, said: "It is making a real impact in breaking the chains of transmission." This piece looks at how Test and Trace works - while this piece from November looks at some of the problems Test and Trace was facing last year. | |
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| Buckingham Palace has responded to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey - and the accusations made in it. “The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning,” said the statement, which was released on Tuesday evening. “Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately. Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members." Meanwhile, Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has resigned from the show after comments he made about Meghan and Harry’s interview. You can read our media editor Amol Rajan’s reaction here - or read an excerpt below. | |
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| |  | | | ITV boss Carolyn McCall made it very clear that she believed Meghan Markle's central claim about her mental health.
She went further: ITV takes mental health very seriously.
It follows that the company must have expected Morgan to recant publicly, or apologise. He is unlikely to have been willing to do that. Therefore this was the moment to leave GMB.
The vital context here is that he has come close to doing so before. Morgan has had very lucrative offers from other broadcasters in recent years, found the very early starts gruelling, and doesn't need the money.
He has big earnings from owning the rights to some of his formats that are broadcast in the US, and has been on a seven-figure salary for the Daily Mail group, where he writes several columns.
So he has been tempted to leave for a while. | |
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| | Amol Rajan | BBC media editor | |
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| | | | Almost all the papers lead with Buckingham Palace's response to the Meghan and Harry and interview. The Sun headline picks out one phrase - "Recollections may vary" - while a Daily Mail poll says the couple should lose their royal titles. Read all the front pages here. | |
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