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There has been a surge in demand for hepatitis C tests since the BBC revealed that hundreds of people in the UK were unknowingly infected with the virus, the Hepatitis C Trust says.Up to 27,000 people caught it when they were given transfusions with infected blood from the 1970s until 1991. According to BBC analysis, a further 1,700 people who caught it in the same way have not yet been diagnosed.Left untreated, hepatitis can cause chronic liver disease and can be fatal.Known as the “silent killer”, hepatitis C may cause few symptoms initially, with early signs including night sweats, brain…

Many of the celebrities wore loose fitting outfits, as they tried to keep cool with the sun beating down on London’s Royal Festival Hall.Not so Joe Lycett. The comedian arrived dressed as Queen Elizabeth I, in a white cape and gown with a ruff around his neck.Lycett did carry two different types of fan on the red carpet, one manual and one battery-powered, as temperatures soared.But that wasn’t enough to keep him cool. “It’s boil in a bag,” he said of his silver ensemble.He also liberally applied sun cream, not only to himself but also to the TV critic Scott…

Recent weeks have seen an increasingly public rift over how Gaza should be governed after the war. Source link

Customers were unable to shop online for around five hours but services are now working again. Source link

Love Island host Maya Jama and King Charles have been filmed talking about the reality TV show at Buckingham Palace.The pair met at a Creative Industries Garden Party on Wednesday, with Jama telling the King she was shortly going to Spain to film the latest series of the show, and watch some “young people snog”. Source link

Salome Zourabichvili’s said a law that has sparked weeks of protests was “fundamentally Russian”. Source link

There has been an unexpected slowdown in sales of electric cars. Could this be more than a blip? Source link

Touts are using teams, or even bots, to harvest concert tickets online at the expense of real fans. Source link

Slovakia’s Prime Minister is steadily approaching a “positive prognosis” after undergoing further surgery, the country’s deputy leader says. Robert Fico, 59, was gravely injured after being shot in the small town of Handlova on Wednesday. He is currently in a serious but stable condition. Officials said it was unlikely he could be moved back to Bratislava in the next few days. Meanwhile, the man charged with his attempted murder appeared in court.It ruled that he be placed in custody until his trial, according to a court spokeswoman. The alleged assailant has not been formally named, but Slovak reports have widely…

Unpaid carers must repay more than £250 million after many were unknowingly overpaid their allowance, new figures show.The government is seeking to recover money from more than 134,000 carers.Carer’s Allowance must be repaid in full if a strict earnings limit is exceeded by even a few pence.The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it was “progressing an enhanced notification strategy” to alert carers to overpayments. Wren Seaward, a full-time carer for her husband John who relies on a wheelchair because of severe osteoarthritis, must pay back £245 a month after unwittingly receiving £5,000 in overpayments.This has brought a “considerable…