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Today's Video Focus: University College Hospital has one of the UK’s biggest intensive care facilities.
The latest official figures say that 439 people in the UK have died in hospital from the effects of Coronavirus up to 5pm on Sunday.
It brings the total number of deaths in hospital from the disease to 5,373. These figures do not account for people who have died in the community or in a care home.
Focus of the Day story: The High Court has rejected a “fanciful” £600,000 conveyancing negligence claim against the law firm Gateley, based on an error admitted by the firm. Mrs Justice Tipples described a director of one of the claimant companies, Lawrence Coppen, as an unsatisfactory witness who gave “untrue” evidence. Full story - Legal Futures
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