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One vaccination centre in the West Midlands saw lines of up to 200 people Image caption: One vaccination centre in the West Midlands saw lines of up to 200 people

All day we've been hearing from people stuck in long queues at walk-in vaccination centres across the country.

They have been responding to a call to get booster jabs as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly.

This morning, we heard from Sarah-Jane who had been queueing for an hour and a half at Lewisham Hospital.

She told the BBC it was very cold in the queue but that everyone was "pretty calm".

"Someone just asked if we should start a sing-song," she says.

Then around 16:00 GMT, Sarah-Jane got in touch again to say she was still waiting but had reached number 26 in the line.

Meanwhile in the West Midlands, a queue of about 200 people snaked its way around a car park and side roads at the back of the vaccination centre in Lye, near Stourbridge.

People at the front said they had waited for more than an hour to reach the entrance, with many who had booked a time slot annoyed at having to wait for that long in the same queue as walk-ins. Others with a booked slot who didn’t have the time to wait could be seen leaving the queue, expressing their frustration that there weren’t enough larger vaccination centres nearby.

Queues also built up in Sevenoaks, Kent Image caption: Queues also built up in Sevenoaks, Kent