Covid vaccine: All over-50s and high risk groups offered first dose

How, when and who will benefit from changes to quarantine rules will be detailed in the Commons later.

The new campaign urging people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths were recorded in the UK.

Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were released after tech executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in Canada.

Jack Doyle quits as communications chief shortly after No 10’s policy head steps down over the PM’s Savile comments.

More than 1.5 billion covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in over 180 countries. That works out to roughly...

He is remembered by family at his funeral as “a beacon of light and hope to the world”.