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The trolling of journalists online was also discussed during the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee hearing.

Research by cybersecurity firm McAfee suggests many people are still not staying secure online despite using their devices more in lockdown.

The deputy first minister said it was a ‘milestone’ day with publication of a working group’s review.

The Prime Minister said it was “hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic”.

Judith Gillespie said some former residents had also been left with ‘life-changing’ trauma.

Here is a look back at key dates from the last 12 months.

Not all coronavirus deaths are counted in the Government’s figures.

About 1,000 people are staying in makeshift camps along the French coast, with many intending to try to cross to Britain.

The Government has secured access to doses of seven different vaccines.

The calls were made amid concerns about the large number of cases waiting to be dealt with by courts.

The first large-scale coronavirus vaccination centre in West Yorkshire opened its doors to patients in Wakefield on Tuesday.

Around 2.5 million posts could be under threat.

The video-sharing site says during the first quarter of last year it experienced a 25% increase in watch-time around the world.

Eight weeks into the rollout, 6.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose.

MPs are calling for schools to be reopened after the February half-term in areas where Covid-19 infection rates are low.

A lawyer said the venue’s security practices were not ‘dramatically out of step’.

Conservative former sport minister Helen Grant said that the beautiful game is in crisis.

It will be the ‘first global confectionery brand’ to make such a switch for all its products worldwide, according to the firm.

Arlene Foster pledged the voices of survivors would be heard ‘loudly and clearly’ during an independent investigation.

The Metropolitan Police said that the officers all had trims from a professional hairdresser at Bethnal Green police station on January 17.