The prime minister is coming under pressure from MPs in his own party to relax rules around social distancing that require people in England to keep 2m (6ft 6in) from others. All four nations of the UK have retained that distance. But former cabinet ministers Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Damian Green are among the backbench Conservatives arguing a change is essential for the economy. Pointing to World Health Organization guidance suggesting distancing of 1m, currently followed in countries such as France, Denmark and Singapore, Sir Iain tells the Daily Mail: "The hospitality sector simply can't make a living at two metres."

With public support for the government sliding, it creates a "very tricky moment" for Boris Johnson, says our political editor Laura Kuenssberg. Changing the rule would go against the advice of the government's top medics, she points out. Science editor David Shukman examines the evidence behind the guidance, while business reporter Lora Jones looks at  when pubs, cafes and restaurants will reopen, and how they might look when they do.

It might seem like a different lifetime when anxiety over a no-deal Brexit dominated the news. But the prospect looms at the end of the year, if the UK does not agree a trade deal with the EU. Talks broke up last week, and the Confederation of British Industry's boss tells the BBC her members could not withstand the additional disruption of leaving the EU without an agreement over future trade. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn says reserves companies built up to cope with the additional cost of a no-deal Brexit have been exhausted by the pandemic. "The resilience of British business is absolutely on the floor," she says. "The firms that I speak to have not a spare moment to plan for a no-trade-deal Brexit." The government says it wants an agreement and is working hard to accelerate talks but insists that, "whatever happens", the UK will leave at the end of the year.

Terrorism might also have slipped down the news agenda of late but time spent online during lockdown may have led more people to become radicalised , a police chief warns. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi says the impact on the country's terrorism threat - currently rated "substantial", meaning an attack is likely - is not yet known. "The reality is that the threat has not gone away," she says, urging people to remain vigilant as restrictions are eased and public spaces become busier. Meanwhile, some high-risk offenders in England and Wales may not have been monitored as closely as they should have been during the lockdown, according to an internal Ministry of Justice document. It says probation staff did not carry out planned checks in about half of cases, during one four-week period. The National Probation Service insists supervision has been adequate.

The declaration that people living alone can form a "support bubble" by staying with another household prompts joy on some front pages. For the Times, it means "children to be reunited with grandparents at last". The Daily Express sees a "lockdown lifeline for the lonely". Meanwhile, the Metro declares: "Crack open the bubbly! Singletons can hook up at last." Boris Johnson is under pressure to relax the two-metre social distancing rule next, says the Daily Mail. According to the Daily Telegraph, the PM plans to scrap it by September at the latest, to allow schools to reopen fully for the new academic year. Meanwhile, the Guardian focuses on the former government adviser's evidence to MPs that the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK could have been halved, had ministers introduced lockdown a week earlier. The remarks came as a report suggested the UK was likely to be the hardest hit by Covid-19 among major economies, notes the Financial Times. Read the review.

From elsewhere

The Inquiry looks at how pandemics - from the bubonic plague and cholera to tuberculosis - have changed the ways cities have been designed and built, and explores how Covid-19 might leave its mark. Meanwhile, the Coronavirus Newscast reviews the return to the fray of “Professor Lockdown”, Neil Ferguson, who told MPs that locking down sooner would have saved thousands of lives.

With Black Lives Matter protests provoking continued debate over the presence in our cities of statues of men linked to the slave-trade, academics Marenka Thompson-Odlum and Sir Geoff Palmer discuss what should happen to them. A month ago, five experienced surfers died when they were overcome by freak foam conditions in the Dutch surfing captial, Scheveningen. Anna Holligan describes how it has stunned the beach community. And Chewing Gum writer and actor Michaela Coel tells Newsbeat why using her experience of sexual assault in writing her new BBC One drama, I May Destroy You, was "cathartic".