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Parents are being urged to vaccinate their children against measles ahead of the new school term. (Photo: SAVO PRELEVIC/AFP via Getty Images)

Measles symptoms as parents warned of potential surge in cases

GPs are voting whether or not to go on strike for the first time in 60 years. (Photo: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

GPs are threatening strike action - what does it mean for you?

RCN nurses suspend next week’s strike and enter pay negotiations

Women who have been prescribed hormone replacement therapy for their menopause treatment are set to get a full year of care for less than £20 from April 1.

Women to receive menopause treatment for under £20 from April

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has reassured the public after warnings of a penicillin shortage in the UK.

Health boss insists penicillin supply is ‘good’ after shortage warning

Self-isolation can only end early if two negative results are produced on consecutive days (Photo: Getty Images)

Major change to Covid self-isolation rules takes effect from today

Covid passports are reportedly set to be scrapped in England this month (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid passports to be scrapped ‘this month’ as Omicron wave eases

Sajid Javid has called on the public to get their booster dose before Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Top-up’ immunity and get booster jab before Christmas parties, Brits urged

People urged to get second Covid jab amid fears millions missed out

The EU still does not recognise a version of the AstraZeneca vaccine called Covishield (Photo: Getty Images)

European holidays at risk for millions of Brits given Indian-made AstraZeneca ja...

Surge testing is being introduced to people in the LS8 postcode area of Leeds (Photo: Getty Images)

Further surge testing ordered in England as South African Covid variant spreads ... Claire Schofield

Could every adult in the UK be vaccinated against Covid by May? The rumours explored (Photo: Shutterstock)

Could every adult in the UK be vaccinated against Covid by May? The rumours expl...

Australia is unlikely to fully reopen its borders in 2021

This is how long you have to wait between the first and second dose of the Covid...

Check how fast the Covid infection rate is rising in your area with this interac...

Can domestic cleaners work during England's national lockdown?

This is when schools could reopen in January - and why the return has been delay...

Primary schools in these areas of England are not expected to reopen next week

The new Covid variant is 54% more infectious than other strains - what it means

£4bn of taxpayer money spent on private Covid contracts is still unaccounted for

Matt Hancock is considering a ‘work out to help out’ scheme - here’s what it mea...

Care homes will be prioritised for testing. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Care homes will be given free PPE until March under new coronavirus plans

The government are cutting back on Coronavirus advertisements to try and slow the demand for test (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

The government is cutting back on coronavirus awareness advertising - here’s why

The new campaign aims to encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles (Photo: Shutterstock)

No sweets at shop counters and a ban on junk food ads - the government's new pla...

Leicester is the worst affected area in England by coroanvirus (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s the latest data on coronavirus cases across England - from the most affec...

This is what you need to know about the NHS app (Photo: Shutterstock)

NHS contact tracing app might not be ready until winter - here’s what it means

A total of8,891 people in Yorkshire have now tested positive for coronavirus. Pictured Leeds General Infirmary.

Latest coronavirus case figures from every location in Yorkshire

Pictured is the NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and the Humber hospital which was opened by Captain Tom Moore. Photo: Simon Hulme.

Full list of coronavirus cases in Yorkshire as UK death toll jumps past 20,000

A total of 8,659 people in Yorkshire have now tested positive for coronavirus.

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1,662 additional coronavirus deaths have been recorded by ONS (Shutterstock)

More than 1,000 additional coronavirus deaths in care homes according to ONS fig...

In the UK,103,093 have now tested positive for Covid-19 (Photo: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Nearly 6,000 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in Yorkshire

Dewsbury and District Hospital

Hospitals services will be in 'stronger position' after Mid Yorkshire £114m debt...

Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, where the trust's HQ is based.

Hospitals services will be in 'stronger position' after Mid Yorkshire £114m debt...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Yorkshire has surged to 692.

Number of coronavirus cases in Yorkshire surges to 692

Health Minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus

Clinical support technician extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Photo by Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

First positive case of coronavirus identified in Kirklees

Confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus have now reached more than 72,000 across the globe (Photo: Shutterstock)

13 coronavirus myths debunked by the World Health Organisation

Coronavirus in the UK: latest news and updates after first cases confirmed in En...

Two members of the same family in England have tested positive for the disease (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is the latest on coronavirus in the UK as first cases confirmed

Trendy low carb diets increase risk of having kids with spina bifida and other d...

Cyberbullying affects girls mos

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Vulnerable patients being sent 60 miles - due to a lack of beds

Legal challenge over junior doctors' contract as medics take strike action

Junior doctors escalate strike in NHS row

West Yorkshire Trading Standards seized thousands of pounds of tobacco.

Tobacco seized in illegal crackdown

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

Public health services could suffer after millions slashed from council budgets

Huge budget cuts to council-run health budgets have been imposed - despite dire warnings that services will suffer.

Don Mort

James Boardman 07967642437 Seeability photo shoot at The Village School in Brent September 20, 2013.

Vulnerable children with disabilities missing out on crucial eye care in Yorkshi...

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Dementia Friends event to go ahead at Cleckheaton’s Masonic Hall

Nurses vote to go on strike as pay deal sparks fury

MAY The scale of a bomb plot on Dewsbury was revealed. Pictured on the top row: Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Saud and Zohaib Ahmed. On the bottom row: Anzal Hussain, Mohammed Hasseen and Omar Mohammed Khan.

Review of the year: May

Catch-up jabs to curb measles

Mirfield schoolgirl Bailey Coppack to start life-changing tumour treatment

Mirfield schoolgirl Bailey gets the go-ahead for brain tumour treatment

Booze devastates lives, figures show