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Revealed: Motorway-blocking Insulate Britain protester arrested multiple times for causing travel chaos is married to £170,000-a-year TfL boss in charge of keeping public transport moving – Daily Mail

Cathy Eastburn is an Insulate Britain protester planning to ‘unleash hell’ on roads

She has been arrested several times at blockades and with Extinction Rebellion

Now revealed she is married to Ben Plowden, a Transport for London director

TfL’s services have been severely impacted by Insulate Britain as well as XR

Ms Eastburn also has allowed activist David McKenny to stay at their £1.5million South London family home

http://archive.today/2021.10.12-094204/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10082371/Insulate-Britain-protester-arrested-blockading-M25-married-170-000-year-TfL-boss.html

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Exclusive: GCHQ giving Boris Johnson ‘real-time’ intelligence to tackle Covid – The Telegraph

Experts working inside Cabinet Office to sift through data that can inform policy-making

GCHQ has embedded a team in a Downing Street cell to provide Boris Johnson with real-time intelligence to combat the “emerging and changing threat” posed by Covid-19, The Telegraph can disclose.

GCHQ analysts have been given access to mobile phone data to track the public’s movements during the national lockdown. The up-to-the-minute reports on compliance are passed to the Prime Minister.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/11/18/exclusive-gchq-cell-giving-boris-johnson-real-time-intelligence/

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MHRA urgently seeks software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction – Tenders Electronic Daily

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the ‘Supplement to the Official Journal’ of the EU, dedicated to European public procurement.

The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed.

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=1

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Cash borrowing by the public sector was £89 billion in April 2020, far more than in any previous month on record – Institute for Fiscal Studies

Over the months to come, more and better data will help build a more complete picture. Based on today’s data, it is nevertheless clear that borrowing will increase to historic highs this year. Borrowing of around £300 billion, or 15% of GDP, as the OBR’s Coronavirus reference scenario projects, certainly seems plausible, a level which has not been reached since the Second World War (but, as a share of GDP, would still be below that borrowed in the four years from 1940–41 to 1943–44).

https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14857