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Stories for October 22nd 2020

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Britain's new polar ship Sir David Attenborough begins sea trials

  

  Britain's new polar ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, has left her Merseyside construction yard. Sirens and accompanying tugboats marked the Attenborough's departure from builder Cammell Laird's wet dock at Birkenhead. Four years in the making, the £200m vessel is about to venture out on a series of sea trials.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  UK/EU will resume post Brexit talks on Thursday: billions of dollars in trade at stake

  

  Britain will resume talks with the European Union on Thursday, marking a new push by the two sides to protect billions of dollars worth of trade from the beginning of next year.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Britain's record borrowing because of Covid-19; total public debt 103,5% of GDP

  

  Britain’s government borrowing in the first half of the financial year was more than six times higher than before the COVID pandemic, official figures showed on Wednesday, taking public debt to its highest since 1960.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Vaccine safety questioned in South Korea: 13 people die from flu shots

  

  At least 13 South Koreans have died after receiving flu shots in recent days, according to official and local media reports, ramping up fears about vaccine safety even as authorities rule out a link.