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He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead

Rachael Bletchly says while Matt Hancock was banging on about the 'protective ring around care homes', he and his ­incompetent colleagues were merely covering their own a***s

Catherine Bowden, 40, overstayed at a McDonald's car park by 14 minutes and has seen her fine spiral to £170 but is worried about she's going to pay up without falling into debt

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Hannah Jobey was devastated when grandma Liz, 86, couldn't attend her wedding to Jay Harris so the pair made sure she didn't miss out - by throwing a special second one!

Russell Grant candidly opens up about being diagnosed with pituitary gland tumour

The only people who failed to appreciate this were Matt Hancock and the then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who, like silly schoolboys, sent puerile messages in which Williamson accused teachers of being lazy

All Covid support has gone, but there are still shielders – disabled people who know their underlying conditions put them at too great a risk from Covid to venture out and reclaim a fully lived life now

This week, messages sent by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock during the coronavirus pandemic have been leaked. Three care home bosses have spoken to The Mirror about their despair

Bereaved relatives have told of their fury after Matt Hancock's bombshell texts on testing were leaked. Matt Forest, whose mum died of Covid, said the former Health Secretary 'betrayed' his mother

Those who lost loved ones to Covid will be reading these revelations with rage and disbelief. These messages must be examined in detail by the Covid Inquiry, which should report as soon as possible

The messages raise further serious questions about why ministers during the Covid pandemic failed to protect care home residents and why the testing regime was dogged by failures

Isabel Oakeshott leaked messages, which suggested the ex Health Secretary was told in April 2020 there should be "testing of all going into care homes"

A tranche of messages from the former Health Secretary and officials have been made public after he shared them with journalist Isabel Oakeshott who helped him write his pandemic memoir

The Labour leaders comments come after the ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock published his Pandemic Diaries in 2022 - before the Covid public inquiry kicked officially kicked off

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock furiously disputed the suggestion that he ignored advice to test everyone entering care homes from Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty in April 2020

During the arrest of Lisa Edwards, 60, outside Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, in Tennessee, US, she pleaded with officers for help as they threatened to "stuff her in" the police car

A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Mirror speaks to three British hosts and the Ukrainian families they’ve invited into their homes

Linda Sutherland was told she was suffering with depression, after losing her husband Ronnie, but her two children took her to the doctors after growing concerned and realised their mum had a progressive stage of Alzheimer's

Barnwell County Hospital in South Carolina, US, was the only hospital in the county and had the only X-ray machine in the town, so local doctors would send patients there for routine X-rays

Rachel Peace, 30, shares what it is like to care for her mum Brenda, whose young-onset dementia has taken over her personality

Jason Dean Rothwell and a friend were the members of the public who found the body on Sunday, which was later confirmed to belong to Nicola Bulley

Mary Brown has been accused of cutting the man's frostbitten foot off so she could taxidermy it at her family's shop and display it with a sign that said: 'Wear your boots kids'

Doctors have issued a warning after scientists revealed a 66% rise in norovirus cases this season - whilst seeing the highest number of infections in the elderly in more than 10 years

An expert has reviewed video footage of an alleged UFO sighting and he is certain this is proof of alien life, ruling out the possibility that it could be a military craft