seriousness

The Department of Health said the report underlines the seriousness and scale of the pressures facing health and social care services.

"This was espionage activity of the highest level of seriousness," prosecutor Alison Morgan KC told the jury at the Old Bailey.

"But obviously in the circumstances, the seriousness of it, no-one knew at that time what the future was going to bring."

I worried that perhaps we are failing to fully understand the seriousness of our current moment.

In a separate statement, the group said it affirmed its "seriousness and full commitment to all our obligations" under the ceasefire - and that it had "no interest in non-compliance".