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The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office has been asked to have a call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the matter of Brexit in the "coming hours," Sky News reported on Tuesday.
The television's reporters from London and Brussels noted signs of "some genuine optimism" on both sides that Britain and the European Union would be able to reach an agreement over their post-Brexit trade relationship.
Earlier in the day, it was reported that the UK and the EU were close to reaching a deal and that their negotiations could be finalized today.
Breaking the News / JR

The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office has been asked to have a call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the matter of Brexit in the "coming hours," Sky News reported on Tuesday.
The television's reporters from London and Brussels noted signs of "some genuine optimism" on both sides that Britain and the European Union would be able to reach an agreement over their post-Brexit trade relationship.
Earlier in the day, it was reported that the UK and the EU were close to reaching a deal and that their negotiations could be finalized today.
Breaking the News / JR

AstraZeneca plc and Oxford University submitted a "full data package" related to its coronavirus vaccine candidate to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), seeking approval for the jab in the United Kingdom, the country's Health Secretary Matt Han**** unveiled on Wednesday.
"This is the next step towards a decision on the deployment of the vaccine, which is already being manufactured, including here in the UK," Han**** stated.
Last week, British media reported the MHRA is likely to grant emergency use authorization for AstraZeneca's vaccine by the end of the year as the government allegedly looks to accelerate mass vaccination to boost the economic recovery from the virus-caused crisis.
Breaking the News / GA

But lets wait until boxing box till we hose it down.
Allowing Xmas day mixing is BOZO at his craziness
Will ALL be blamed on us plebs once again when inflections SOAR!!!

The deal is done! William Hill have just removed the option to bet on a Brexit deal, bookies tend to do this when they know a certain outcome is a dead cert!

https://www.cityam.com/reports-eu-putting-in-place-procedures-for-post-brexit-trade-deal/

wild PHE
DROPPED 25%
then recovered to +8%
now down 5%
wild trading for risk takers

finished last yesterday.

PAR FOR THE COURSE!!!

I trust the inventor......

The chief executive of the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has said he is confident its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but that further studies are needed to be certain.
If the vaccine needed to be adjusted for the new variant, the company could do that in about six weeks, Sahin said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/covid-vaccine-likely-to-work-on-uk-variant-biontech-boss-says

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/931694/hydrogen-investment-101-what-s-all-the-excitement-how-will-it-work-which-companies-are-involved-931694.html

AVOIDING A ‘NO DEAL, HARD BREXIT’

The British Pound is rallying as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have conceded demands on fisheries in order to help get a Brexit deal across the finish line. The previous demand that the UK retain some 60% of international fishing waters has been dropped to 33%, contingent upon the EU making concessions elsewhere; the EU’s position regarding fisheries has been steadfast at 25%.

Avoiding a ‘no deal, hard Brexit’ is a top priority for the UK, particularly as a new mutation of COVID-19 has sparked swift lockdowns in London and by foreign neighbors. At the time of writing, GBP/JPY and GBP/USD have reversed their daily losses – which exceeded -1% at times – and are now positive on the day.

AGAIN!!

BMN up 12%...just after u sold
TYPICAL M8!!!

I'm not at all convinced that Mike Ashley's strategy to buy up failed High Street chains is a good one. Hopefully this development might make him think twice about bidding for TopShop? I'd like to see Boohoo (LON:BOO) (I hold) pick up that one, and bolt it onto their machine to drive continued growth. The march of the online retailers seems unstoppable. BOO is the best one, and currently good value because of ESG fund managers being forced sellers. Once the supply chain issues are resolved (work-in-progress), then all those fund managers are likely to become buyers again, driving up the share price. That's a tremendous money-making opportunity for us, in my opinion, it's my top pick for 2021, and largest personal portfolio position. I'm not going to apologise for banging the drum about what I believe to be a tremendous opportunity. Last time I did that, when it was below 25p, readers here made millions, a very happy outcome.

More like a chicken leg on his own....
lo!

A good production update for WRES has been announced
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/WRES/la-parrilla-update-fl8zfif3pomiqo0.html

That timetable did include the AZ. vaccine
The trouble is the execution not the number of vaccine doses.
Ten of thousands have to be trained and admin will be use thousands more
You do know that you are asked to seat down for 15 mins after injection in case of reactions.
It aint as simple as when we were kids and we all lined up in assembly school hall for polo/chickenpox/etc injections and it was all done with the same needle in ultra quick time.
Now they read a prepared script to which you agree to be vaccinated.
Its all very time consuming m8,
Say a couple of million a week...work it out...it will take months

Correct
They reckon by easter all the 65+ , front line NHS/care workers + vulnerable should be done
And by summer to complete the whole vaccination program.

Whats happening at Rambler as it has sparked into life after years and years of S/P decline
Cheers

Sweden tried with minimal restrictions....
It didn't end well.
Forced into a U-turn with tight restrictions now..

Herd Immunity would kill 500,000
As nobody can be completely protected from COVID-19 unless they are in an isolation ward.