内容摘要：But Prof Andrew Pollard, the chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which recommended the vaccine, said despite it only being 30% effective, it was "worth having" and could have "a huge impact" overall.

But Prof Andrew Pollard, the chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which recommended the vaccine, said despite it only being 30% effective, it was "worth having" and could have "a huge impact" overall.

Education unions have broadly welcomed the decision, while warning of cuts to school budgets without extra funding to cover costs.But health unions have reacted angrily after a smaller rise of 3.6% was announced for other NHS staff, including nurses and midwives.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said an average 5.4% rise for resident doctors, formerly called junior doctors, was "woefully inadequate" and said it would ballot them next week over possible strike action.Resident doctors took part in 11 separate strikes during 2023 and 2024 as they had been arguing for a 35% increase to make up for 15 years of below-inflation pay awards.They were given rises worth an average of 22% over the last two years to bring an end to those strikes - and the BMA argues this year's pay award did not do enough to make up that remaining shortfall.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it was "grotesque" that nurses had been offered a smaller rise than doctors, adding the "failed" pay review body process "keeps nursing staff weighted to the bottom".The union plans to consult nurses on whether they are happy with the rise, or if they want to move forward with industrial action. If they back the latter, a formal strike ballot could be run.

A series of announcements on Thursday confirmed:

Inflation unexpectedlyThey were clearly frustrated that Co-op wasn't giving in to their ransom demands but wouldn't say how much money in Bitcoin they were demanding of the retailer in exchange for the promise that they wouldn't sell or give away the stolen data.

After a conversation with the BBC's Editorial Policy team, we decided that it was in the public interest to report that they had provided us with evidence proving that they were responsible for the hack.I quickly contacted the press team at the Co-op for comment, and within minutes the firm, who had initially downplayed the hack, admitted to employees, customers and the stock market about the significant data breach.

Much later, the hackers sent me a long angry and offensive letter about Co-op's response to their hack and subsequent extortion, which revealed that the retailer narrowly dodged a more severe hack by intervening in the chaotic minutes after its computerThe letter and conversation with the hackers confirmed what experts in the cyber security world had been saying since this wave of attacks on retailers began – the hackers were from a cyber crime service called DragonForce.