The school summer holidays might be over but those taking a late break find themselves negotiating the UK's increasingly divergent quarantine rules. New laws have come into force in Wales, requiring those arriving from Portugal, French Polynesia and six Greek islands - Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos - to self-isolate for 14 days. Portugal and French Polynesia have also been put on Scotland's quarantine list, with Greece having been added on Thursday. However, "travel corridors" remain in place between all three nations and both England and Northern Ireland, meaning arrivals are exempt from having to lock themselves away.

"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more," says Paul Charles, of travel consultancy The PC Agency. Portugal's seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people - above the threshold which generally causes the UK government to consider quarantine conditions for England. But the Department for Transport said: "Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus." That's of little comfort to travellers like Kelly, 45, from Birmingham. She spent £900 changing her family's flights home from the Algarve to avoid an anticipated quarantine because she did not want her children to miss two weeks of school. The situation is "absolutely disgusting", she says.

For more than a decade, its projected benefits have been provoking fierce debate. Now, work on the HS2 rail line is finally getting under way, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson declaring it will "fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity". The high-speed line connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will, say proponents, create 22,000 jobs, reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy. However, the budget has risen from £56bn in 2015 to an estimated £88bn, and a review this year suggested costs could eventually top £100bn. The Stop HS2 campaign, which calls the scheme "environmentally destructive", argues that it will "permanently displace almost that many jobs" and that, in any case, "trying to spin HS2 as a job-creation scheme is beyond desperate... at almost £2m just to create a single job".

A US academic who teaches courses in African, Caribbean and diaspora history, says she lied about being black. In a post on the Medium platform, Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, admitted she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas City. "I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken," she wrote, blaming mental health issues and trauma experienced in her early years. Ms Krug's employer says it is "aware" of her post but could not comment further.

"Boris, let's get Britain flying again!" That's the Daily Mail's demand of the prime minister, as it complains it's "infuriating" that economies of other nations have been able to reopen as a result of virus tests at airports. Meanwhile, the Metro says new figures show there were more than 400 daily coronavirus deaths in care homes at the height of the outbreak in the UK. And the i quotes senior doctors claiming the NHS testing strategy is "flawed". In other news, "BBC chief cracks down on Twitter warriors", is the Daily Telegraph's take on comments by the corporation's new director general Tim Davie that people who want to voice their opinions should not be working there. The broadcaster "should be cut down to size", is the Times's take on the speech. Read the review.

If you're heading to the cinema this weekend, you can whet your appetite by reading Newsbeat's interview with director Josh Boone about the long and "bumpy" journey to get his X-Men spin-off The New Mutants onto the big screen. For a very different viewing experience, watch our video of a 73-year-old great-grandmother inspiring activists by facing up to riot police in authoritarian Belarus. And, as it's Friday, you can test your knowledge of events across the past seven days in our quiz of the week's news.

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