Virus-hit Sitel worker claims bosses shut blinds when police came to investigate safety breach claims

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2K Sports has announced the roadmap for WWE 2K22, with Logan Paul and Mr. T both set to join the wrestling game.Last month it was confirmed that Machine Gun Kelly would be joining WWE 2K22 and now 2K has announced the full roster of additional players that will be joining the game this year.28 more wrestlers will be made available through five different packs in WWE 2K22, released throughout 2022.

Are you a fan of Non-League football? Give us your thoughts in the comments sectionThe fan was one of 50 to head down to watch the fixture at Kong Park, Lutterworth and while Warren was booked during the match - it is unknown whether it was for the incident.One Twitter user then said in response: "Hear me out.. the threat ain't great but characters are needed in Non League & my experience is he is a decent lad in the bar after."With a second adding: "My local team, might have to start going to watch."A statement from Lutterworth Town read: "The club does not condone the reaction and it was over the top but players do not come to football as a hobby to be abused by spectators."The player has received a lot of online abuse and he does not deserve that.

Formula One World Championship - and have insisted that it is perfectly legal.Lewis Hamilton and new teammate George Russell debuted the new style in Bahrain testing on Thursday (March 10) - and everyone noticed that the car had tiny side pods.With F1 chiefs admitting a lot of debate will be created by an "extreme interpretation" of the rules, Red Bull boss Christian Horner was forced to deny claims that he questioned the legality of the design.Horner, who oversaw Max Verstappen's controversial victory over Hamilton to claim his first world championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, was reported to have said that the "spirit" of the sport had been broken.A team spokesperson said: "Christian Horner has not given any interviews regarding Mercedes car. Any quotes being attributed to him this morning are incorrect."With Horner himself told Sky Sports F1: "I was slightly surprised to be reading comments I’m supposed to have been making, but there we go."With Red Bull saying in a statement: "So we are clear, we have made no official comment regarding Mercedes’ car and will not be doing so."Should the design be permitted? Give us your thoughts in the comments sectionMercedes' innovative new W13 features minimalist side pods and fins on both sides, which they presumably believe will give them an advantage over rival teams.

Russian forces encircle the key strategic target of Mykolaiv, on the road to the Black Sea, the man in charge of the city's defences warns that the attacking troops “will become dog food”.Ukrainian General Dmytro Marchenko, who is in command of the garrison at Mykolaiv, vows that his men would kill ten Russians for each civilian killed in the battle for the major Black Sea shipbuilding centre.One Russian attack has already been repelled, and General Marchenko says the streets are littered with Russian dead.“It’s unpleasant to say this,” he told The Times, “but their corpses are food for stray dogs.“We’re not able to retrieve them because of continuing Russian fire in those areas.”He added that many civilians had been killed in the Russian assault, and he knew precisely who was responsible.“We know who these people are,” he said. “We have a vast amount of intelligence, including much from our American partners, that consists of photos where we can see faces.

Valve’s recently released Steam Deck now has a quite simple way for players to install the Windows operating system on the device.The portable PC has been said to be able to run other operating systems, and now Valve is helping users easily get Windows running on the device as well. Users can find all the resources to get the operating system working on the handheld here.Valve has noted that there’s no dual-boot yet on the Steam Deck, as the SteamOS hasn’t been updated to let players choose between that and Windows.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Peaceful,” Emmanuelle Bercot’s Cesar-winning melodrama which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has landed domestic distribution with New York-based banner Distrib US.Sold by Studiocanal, the movie is headlined by Benoit Magimel and Catherine Deneuve (pictured). Magimel, who won the Cesar Award for best actor — beating fellow nominee Adam Driver — stars as a man dying of cancer.

Loose Women panellist Frankie Bridge has admitted to a childhood trauma she received after visiting a war museum.The hosts Kaye Adams, Frankie Bridge, Judi Love and Nadia Sawalha were discussing a recent viral topic.A school had put on an educational display of a crime scene for their pupils and some parents were furious at the move as they didn’t think it was suitable for their children.Nadia initially said that she thought it was a “creative” way of getting children involved in learning as they are the most “voyeuristic” of people, but later changed her mind after hearing her co-hosts' answers.Judi said that she disagreed with Nadia and admitted that she would be “one of those parents down at the school” because she thought it was unnecessary to present it explicitly.She branded the performance as “ridiculous,” a “step too far” and “too close to reality because people are so “bombarded with tragedy and trauma”.Love went on to explain that different children have differing levels of emotional intelligence, meaning that they could be heavily affected by what the teacher’s thought was an engaging task.Kaye agreed that a school setting is supposed to be “a safe environment” for young learners who want to “trust and relax” without feeling “threatened in any way”.She turned to Frankie and asked her how her children would react and explained that her eldest would be “terrified” while her youngest would think it’s “great”, which she said “goes to show that all kids are different”.The mother-of two recalled an experience from her childhood: “When I was a kid, we were taken to the war museum and I still remember a lot of the things I saw there, and that caused me great anxiety for the rest of my childhood.”“My reaction to that

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorPeople who are interested in CNN Plus finally have a date when they can add it to their streaming repertoire. The WarnerMedia-owned cable-news outlet intends to launch the subscription broadband service on March 29.The detail — perhaps the last piece of information to be disclosed about the new media venue — comes ahead of a presentation CNN executives and anchors will make during the SXSW Festival this weekend.

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Covid-19 outbreak after workers feared they were being put at risk.A Labour MSP referred the call centre to Police Scotland in April after being inundated with complaints about Sitel at the height of the pandemic.Monica Lennon told police that one employee had reported to work at the call centre despite it being common knowledge that their partner was off sick with suspected coronavirus.At least six workers at Sitel’s call centre at Maxim Park in Eurocentral, near Bellshill, Lanarkshire, have been diagnosed with the virus.The staff who tested positive were working for NHS England’s Test and Trace programme.Lennon, who is Labour’s health spokeswoman and a Central Scotland MSP, said: “It seems possible that it is more than coincidence that I