Carrie Johnson treated in hospital for ‘nasty chest infection’ after contracting flu and pneumonia

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January 12, 2025

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Carrie Johnson has begged people to get the flu jab after spending almost a week in hospital with a chest infection that left her “struggling to breathe”.

The wife of former prime minister Boris Johnson said she is still not recovered after contracting flu and pneumonia.

Ms Johnson posted an image on Instagram showing her in a hospital bed and added: “It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.

“I didn’t expect to spend the first week of 2025 in hospital. After having a nasty chest infection for nearly 18 days at home over Christmas, it just got out of hand and I was struggling to breathe properly.”

She also posted a tribute to NHS doctors and nurses at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxfordshire, describing them as “the best people on Earth”.

“I cannot thank them enough. When I was particularly low, one nurse even serenaded me by my bed. Unbelievable kindness,” she wrote.

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Ms Johnson also admitted she “really, really wished” she had got the flu jab this year.

“It totally slipped my mind. No guarantee, but I very possibly wouldn’t have spent the last 3 weeks horribly, horribly ill had I got it,” she said.

“Obviously check with your doctor but my strong advice is to get the bloody flu jab.”

It is not clear when the photograph was taken, but Ms Johnson appears to have since left hospital.

A second image, posted to her Instagram account, shows gifts her children gave to her to take to hospital. They include her son Wilf’s “favourite dinosaur toy” called Greenie, and her daughter Romy’s princess key ring.

She ended her message with: “health and family are everything”.

As prime minister, Mr Johnson became seriously ill with COVID-19 in April 2020 and spent time in intensive care.

The couple’s son was born later the same month and was named Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, partly in tribute to two doctors, Nick Hart and Nick Price, who treated Mr Johnson.

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Norwegian tax authority sees 30% jump in crypto reporting

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October 29, 2025

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Norwegian tax authority sees 30% jump in crypto reporting

According to Norwegian authorities, more than 73,000 people in the country reported on $4 billion in crypto holdings for the 2024 tax year.

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Australian regulator gives long-awaited crypto guidance, but concerns remain

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October 29, 2025

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Hadush Kebatu: Migrant sex offender deported after mistaken prison release

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October 29, 2025

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Hadush Kebatu: Migrant sex offender deported after mistaken prison release

Migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu has been deported to Ethiopia following his mistaken release from prison.

Footage captured from Heathrow Airport showed the moment he was escorted on to a plane on Tuesday night.

The government says he has no right to return to the UK.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she “pulled every lever” to deport Kebatu.

“I am pleased to confirm this vile child sex offender has been deported. Our streets are safer because of it,” she said.

Kebatu was found and arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the Finsbury Park area of north London at around 8.30am on Sunday following a manhunt.

Last month he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and a woman in Epping, Essex, just over a week after arriving in the UK on a small boat.

He was expected to be deported, but instead of being handed over to immigration officials he was released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday.

He spent just under 48 hours at large before he was apprehended.

The accidental release sparked widespread alarm and questions over how a man whose crimes sparked protests in Epping over the use of asylum hotels was able to be freed.

Ms Mahmood said: “Last week’s blunder should never have happened – and I share the public’s anger that it did.”

On Sunday, Justice Secretary David Lammy said an exclusive Sky News interview will be used as part of an independent inquiry into the mistaken release.

Speaking to Sky’s national correspondent Tom Parmenter, a delivery driver who spoke to Kebatu at HMP Chelmsford described him as being “confused” as he was being guided to the railway station by prison staff.

The migrant is said to have returned to the prison reception four or five times before leaving the area on a train heading to London.

Mr Lammy, who put Kebatu’s release down to human error, said he ordered an “urgent review” into the checks that take place when an offender is released from prison, and new safeguards have been added that amount to the “strongest release checks that have ever been in place”.

From Monday, new checks include five pages of instructions and demands that more senior prison staff sign off a release, according to documents obtained by Sky News.

“I have been clear from the outset that a mistake of this nature is unacceptable, and we must get to the bottom of what happened,” said Mr Lammy.

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