DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) werd tijdens de eerste coronagolf verrast door het besluit van het kabinet om geen bezoek meer toe te staan in verpleeghuizen. Toenmalig hoofdinspecteur curatieve gezondheidszorg Marina Eckenhausen zei tijdens een verhoor door de parlementaire enquêtecommissie dat de inspectie dat besluit graag van tevoren had geweten.

"Maar ik heb respect voor de mensen die zulke moeilijke beslissingen moesten nemen", zei Eckenhausen. Ze wilde namens zichzelf of de inspectie niet ingaan op wat ze vond van het besluit. "Dat is niet aan mij."

Eckenhausen zei dat de inspectie niet heeft gecontroleerd of het bezoekverbod wel streng werd gehandhaafd door verpleeghuizen. "We vertrouwden de professionals. Er moest ook ruimte zijn voor uitzonderingen als een patiënt op sterven lag. Het was niet aan ons om dat te handhaven. Wij zien toe op de kwaliteit van de zorg."

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) werd tijdens de eerste coronagolf verrast door het besluit van het kabinet om geen bezoek meer toe te staan in verpleeghuizen. Toenmalig hoofdinspecteur curatieve gezondheidszorg Marina Eckenhausen zei tijdens een verhoor door de parlementaire enquêtecommissie dat de inspectie dat besluit graag van tevoren had geweten.

"Maar ik heb respect voor de mensen die zulke moeilijke beslissingen moesten nemen", zei Eckenhausen. Ze wilde namens zichzelf of de inspectie niet ingaan op wat ze vond van het besluit. "Dat is niet aan mij."

Eckenhausen zei dat de inspectie niet heeft gecontroleerd of het bezoekverbod wel streng werd gehandhaafd door verpleeghuizen. "We vertrouwden de professionals. Er moest ook ruimte zijn voor uitzonderingen als een patiënt op sterven lag. Het was niet aan ons om dat te handhaven. Wij zien toe op de kwaliteit van de zorg."

• Manchester United travel to Hull on first weekend

• Manchester City without Guardiola host Bournemouth

Coventry will begin their first Premier League campaign in 25 years with a Friday night trip to the champions, Arsenal, on 21 August.

Their fellow promoted club Hull begin at home to Manchester United on the Saturday and Ipswich entertain Sunderland that day.

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As some shops toy with the idea of removing changing rooms, what does it mean for the future of the high street?

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Is the changing room dead? According to the teenage fashion mecca, Brandy Melville, it is. The brand has closed all its fitting rooms across stores in the UK, US and Canada, with shoppers taking to social media lamenting the change.

“Why does Brandy hate [its] customers?” one TikTok user questioned. “How am I supposed to know if it’s cute on me???!” another exclaimed.

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The Braves pitcher has always been different from the average baseball player. He talks to Joseph Palmer about his motivations on and off the field

Spencer Strider made an impression in 2022, his first full season in Major League Baseball: he was runner-up for National League Rookie of the Year. In 2023 he was ever better, leading the majors in wins and strikeouts and earning a spot on the All-MLB first-team.

But what set him apart from many of his peers wasn’t his athletic ability but his life away from baseball. In a sport that is often socially conservative, the Atlanta Braves pitcher was a vegan Bernie Sanders supporter who was just as likely to discuss indie music as his fastball.

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When a company decided to shut down an online game’s servers, there wasn’t much the players who had bought that title could do – until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer protection laws

You can never be sure how long an online video game will last. Developer BioWare shut off sci-fi shooter Anthem’s servers in January, after seven years. Electronic Arts discontinued access to The Sims Mobile the same month. Wildlight Entertainment shuttered its Highguard servers in March, mere months after the game’s release. Activision Blizzard took Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile offline in April. Dozens more games have had their servers shut down in the first six months of 2026, adding to an already long list of video games that are no longer playable.

There is little that players can do when a company decides to stop supporting online play. Communities work hard to keep their favourite games online, sometimes keeping dead games running on private servers, though that may not necessarily be entirely legal. Generally, though, when a game goes offline it is dead and it’s not coming back.

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Bayo en Monique houden van kringloopwinkels en dansen in een club. Hij staat in de Bijlmer bekend als Mr B, al sinds hij daar optrad als dj.

Rockstar Games has suffered a legal setback in a dispute over alleged union busting, clearing the way for a final employment tribunal hearing shortly before Grand Theft Auto VI is due to launch. The developer had sought to have "blacklisting" allegations struck from the case. The employment tribunal rejected the request, and the final hearing is scheduled to run from September 10 to October 15. According to the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which brought the case, blacklisting is a practice in which information about workers engaged in union activity is compiled to facilitate discrimination. The Register asked the IWGB for more information, but the union did not respond. Rockstar declined to comment on ongoing legal matters. The legal dispute stems from the sudden dismissal of 31 IWGB members in October 2025. According to the IWGB, the dismissed workers were part of a private trade union Discord channel where they discussed ways to improve the workplace. An anonymous source told The Register that when management became aware of the channel, the staff were summarily fired. At the time, a spokesperson for Rockstar's holding company, Take-Two Interactive, said: "We strive to make the world's best entertainment properties by giving our best-in-class creative teams positive work environments and ongoing career opportunities. Our culture is focused on teamwork, excellence, and kindness. "Rockstar Games terminated a small number of individuals for gross misconduct, and for no other reason. As always, we fully support Rockstar's ambitions and approach." This week, Ellie Dunstan, one of the workers fired last year, described the employment tribunal ruling as a "huge moment for us." "Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They're wrong, and we look forward to proving it. Our case will now be heard in full and put to the test as it should be. The world will get to see for itself the evidence as to what happened last October. "We loved our work at Rockstar. Losing our passion, our colleagues, and our incomes in the blink of an eye was devastating, and the company management has treated us with disdain ever since." Tech companies are often quick to derail unionization where possible, while working conditions in game development have faced particular scrutiny over "crunch," the practice of employees working extended hours in the run-up to a release. ®