Regrettably, the pandemic has caused A&E waiting times to sink to their worst levels in England since the four-hour target started, with doctors warning the situation is bleak ahead of winter. A quarter of patients waited more than four hours for treatment in September - with even longer waits being recorded elsewhere in the UK. All this while ministers and GPs clash over demands that practices saw more patients face-to-face. The government handed GP practices £250 million to take on temporary staff. But the British Medical Association said they were "hugely dismayed" with the plan, saying it would not solve the problems. There was relief in the pig industry after the government said it would allow 800 foreign abattoir workers into the UK on temporary visas, after warnings from farmers of mass culls. The shortage of butchers has already seen farmers destroy 6,600 healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the National Pig Association said. The government also announced plans to allow thousands more HGV deliveries to address a chronic driver shortage. Finally, a deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway, which left five people dead, appears to have been an act of terror, Norway's security service said. The suspect, a 37-year-old Danish citizen named Espen Andersen Brathen, had converted to Islam and there were fears he had been radicalised. However a motive has not yet been determined. He is accused of killing four women and a man on Wednesday night in the southern town of Kongsberg.