| Green list expansion 'not enough', say travel bosses |
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| | | Sixteen places might have been added to the UK's green list, meaning you can visit without having to quarantine on return, but it does not go far enough for most of the travel industry. The changes, coming into effect from 4am on Wednesday, make holidays more viable to the Balearic Islands - Ibiza, Menorca, Majorca and Formentera - along with Malta, Madeira, nine Caribbean nations and four British Overseas Territories (Antarctic break, anyone?) Ministers also aim to drop quarantine for fully vaccinated people returning from amber list countries "later in the summer". For package tour company Jet2, it's a "step in the right direction". But easyJet says the timetable "simply isn't ambitious enough" and is "not the safe and sustainable reopening of travel the government promised". Meanwhile, British Airways warned the sector could not afford "another missed summer". Its chief executive, Sean Doyle, says: "There are jobs at stake, Britons separated from family members and we cannot afford to allow the success of our vaccine programme to be wasted." Confused about the rules on travel from green and amber list destinations? Here's a reminder If you're over 40 in England or Scotland, here's how you can bring forward your second jab | |
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| Search for survivors after building collapse |
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| The images are both disturbing and scarcely believable, the CCTV footage reminiscent of a controlled demolition. And local officials have no explanation for why a large part of a 12-storey Florida building collapsed. Whatever the reason, it left one person dead, while 99 remain unaccounted for, officials say. Having pulled 35 people from the wreckage - sending two to hospital - rescuers are desperately listening for signs of life in the rubble. As night fell, teams were using sonar cameras and dogs, and tunnelling from an underground garage. Witnesses describe what they saw, including one man rescued by crane from the building, who says he opened his apartment door and looked down the hallway to find "nothing was there". | |
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| Mildly ill children 'overwhelm' A&Es - doctors |
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| Hospital casualty departments are being "overwhelmed" by record numbers of young children, with winter viruses - suppressed during lockdown - now flourishing. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says most are under five, and usually their fevers and coughs are not caused by coronavirus but infections treatable with paracetamol or ibuprofen. Data from four children's emergency departments show May attendances by under 15s increased from nearly 16,000 in 2018 to 23,661 this year. Last month, fewer than 1% were classed as needing immediate attention. More than 17,000 were not seriously unwell. In most cases, experts say, GPs, pharmacies or NHS 111 should be the first option. Our story lists circumstances when you should always seek help. | |
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| | | | | Prof Anthony Finkelstein, the outgoing chief scientific adviser for national security, points to a series of challenges the UK faces in maintaining an edge. One is keeping pace with exponential technological change which fundamentally challenges the operating model of intelligence agencies. The next is that "the focus for technological leadership is moving eastwards", he says, signalling towards (without naming) China. And finally, science and technology has itself become the focus for geopolitical competition. "It's a domain in which power is contested and which defines a state's capability," he says. | |
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| | Gordon Corera | Security correspondent | |
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| | | | "Holiday islands here we come," says the Daily Mail, in response to 16 places being added to the green list of destinations from which arrivals will no longer have to quarantine. However, the Daily Telegraph says the "confusion deepens", given most were also added to a watch list of locations at risk of being returned to amber, in which case quarantine would be required after all. Meanwhile, the Guardian says some ministers fear a rush of people trying to bring forward their second coronavirus vaccination. And the Times says holidaymakers' plans could still be thwarted, with EU nations planning to force even fully vaccinated Britons to quarantine on arrival. Read the review. | |
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| | | Murders The missed chances to identify double killer |
| | | | Bills Gas and electricity companies criticised over inaccuracies |
| | | | Olympics GB chief says some athletes 'don't want vaccine' |
| | | | Theft The valuable car part gone in 60 seconds |
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| It was written in 2019 but the pandemic turned If The World Was Ending into a smash hit for singer JP Saxe. Here's the story of the song - and how it transformed the Canadian's career and love life. If you need a laugh, try this tale about a newspaper ad posted on behalf of a woman, seeking a "non-farting, non-burping, rich man". And it's Friday, which means it's time to have a go at our quiz of the week's news. | |
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| | | 1950 North Korea invades South Korea at several points along the border, beginning the Korean War. |
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