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Transport Secretary says holidaymakers can travel abroad without 'looking over their shoulders'

Grant Shapps has sought to reassure those hoping for a summer getaway about the simplified traffic light system...

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Jabs for 16 and 17-year-olds expected to provide ‘really good knock-on effect’

Offering a Covid-19 vaccine to 16 and 17-year-olds could reduce transmission of the virus and limit disruption to their ...

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Scotland to end most Covid restrictions but face masks stay in some settings

Most of the remaining Covid restrictions are to be scrapped in Scotland from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said, but the l...

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Belarus sprinter says she would have faced punishment at home

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has said officials from her home country “made it clear” she wou...

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Government abandons ‘amber watchlist’ plans for travellers

Ministers have abandoned plans for an “amber watchlist” as Boris Johnson promised to keep travel rules as simple as ...

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Covid-19 app updated to cut number of people isolating as ‘pingdemic’ continues

The NHS Covid-19 app is being updated so fewer contacts will be instructed to isolate after an increase in people being ...

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Sturgeon invites Johnson to meet her in Edinburgh to discuss Covid recovery

Nicola Sturgeon has urged the Prime Minister to meet her to discuss the country’s recovery from coronavirus....

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Tributes to boy, 5, found dead in river as three held on suspicion of murder

Tributes have been paid to a “beautiful” five-year-old boy found dead in a river in South Wales after two adults and...

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New ‘measures’ at Samaritans amid reports of volunteers meeting callers for sex

Samaritans has introduced new safeguarding “measures” amid allegations of incidents of helpline volunteers meeting v...