The Shipping News

Published: March 17, 2022, 10:35 p.m.

P&O Ferries has caused outrage after sacking 800 workers via a recorded video message. The company plans to replace them with cheaper agency workers. Chris gets the latest from the BBC\u2019s Danny Savage in Hull, where a P&O crew had been refusing to leave their ship.

Covid infection rates have been increasing rapidly across the UK \u2013 one of the people to catch the virus is Adam. GP Ellie Cannon worries about the long-term mental health fallout of the pandemic.

And Chris asks Britain\u2019s chief Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost, if Boris Johnson is governing as a Conservative. His answer: \u201cUp to a point.\u201d

This edition of Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg and John Murphy. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.