Covid-19: Test and Trace boss Dido Harding defends £22billion system after scathing report

Test and Trace boss Dido Harding, Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock today defended the Government’s ‘essential’ contact-tracing system after a damning report claimed it had ‘no measurable effect’ on the Covid crisis.  The trio joined Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in justifying the £22billion Test and Trace programme. The comments came after the Commons Public Accounts Committee said … Read more

From Jane Smiley to Lisa Harding, Michael Farris Smith and Walter Mosley: This week’s best fiction 

From Jane Smiley’s fanciful fable to Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding, a period thriller by Michael Farris Smith and Walter Mosley’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 The Strays … Read more

Andy Lee’s model girlfriend Rebecca Harding shows off her rock-hard abs at a gym in Melbourne

Andy Lee’s model girlfriend Rebecca Harding shows off her rock-hard abs as she visits the gym in Melbourne By Abi Moustafa For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:13 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 11:16 GMT, 28 January 2021 Rebecca Harding showed off her athletic side during a gruelling gym class in Melbourne on Thursday.  The … Read more

Coronavirus: Dido Harding says UK is in ‘leading position’ to track new Covid variants

Dido Harding today said the UK is in one of the ‘leading positions worldwide’ to recognise and deal with new variants of the coronavirus. And the NHS Test and Trace boss admitted to MPs that her biggest fear about Covid-19 is ‘what we don’t know’, saying she was certain it would present new, unknown problems … Read more

Andy Lee plants a kiss on girlfriend Rebecca Harding in Sydney

Still going strong: Comedian Andy Lee plants a kiss on girlfriend Rebecca Harding as the loved-up couple enjoy a sweet lunch date in Sydney By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:45 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 13:48 GMT, 14 January 2021 Popular comedian Andy Lee and his model girlfriend Rebecca Harding have … Read more

KIIS FM: Polly ‘PJ’ Harding reveals how her long-term boyfriend proposed

KIIS FM radio host Polly ‘PJ’ Harding reveals how her long-term boyfriend surprised her with a proposal while on holiday in New Zealand By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:47 GMT, 12 January 2021 | Updated: 01:56 GMT, 12 January 2021 Melbourne radio host Polly ‘PJ’ Harding recently became engaged to her boyfriend … Read more

KIIS FM radio host Polly ‘PJ’ Harding announces she is engaged

KIIS FM radio host Polly ‘PJ’ Harding announces she is engaged to her low-profile boyfriend after more than two years of long-distance dating By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:47 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 22:51 GMT, 28 December 2020 Polly ‘PJ’ Harding, who hosts KIIS FM’s Melbourne breakfast show Jase & … Read more

Testing tsar Dido Harding is self-isolating after getting ‘pinged’ by app 

‘Many hours of Zoom ahead’: Testing tsar Dido Harding reveals she is self-isolating after getting ‘pinged’ by her own contact tracing app Baroness Harding revealed on Twitter that she has been told to self-isolate The Test & Trace chief said she had ‘many hours of Zoom ahead’ but ‘feeling well’ By James Tapsfield, Political Editor … Read more

Coronavirus: Dido Harding claims Test & Trace ‘didn’t predict’ demand surge when schools went back

Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding claims it is ‘not my job’ to predict when the system will get overloaded and claims she didn’t foresee new school year crippling the struggling regime By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 13:36 GMT, 10 November 2020 | Updated: 14:08 GMT, 10 November 2020 England’s … Read more

Tory MP husband of NHS Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding told to self-isolate by Covid app

The MP husband of Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding has been told to self-isolate by the coronavirus app – though she has not been asked to.  Tory MP John Penrose was alerted by the NHS Covid-19 app, part of the operation overseen by his wife. However, Baroness Harding has not received an alert … Read more