While the UK government says its priority has been protecting public health, its coronavirus travel rules have proven a bone of contention for the tourism industry, airlines and many holidaymakers. And ministers are considering changes to the traffic-light system, including scrapping the amber list - those countries from where passengers who are not fully vaccinated must self-isolate for 10 days. The requirement for fully vaccinated people to take lab-processed PCR tests could also be removed.
Some newspapers are also reporting many countries could come off the red list, which currently requires hotel quarantine on return. Any changes would apply to England initially, as the UK's devolved administrations set their own travel rules, although the system has been similar across the whole country for some time. Industry body Airlines UK argues testing requirements have prevented the UK travel industry from competing with rivals, "given most of Europe has already removed them". Its boss Tim Alderslade says "thousands of jobs will be at stake" if the sector is not allowed to fully reopen when furlough support ends. Remind yourself of the rules as they stand.

Nearly two and a half years after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead in Londonderry, two men have been charged with her murder. Ms McKee was observing rioting on the city's Creggan estate, in April 2019, when she was killed. The suspects, aged 21 and 33, have also been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, riot, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs and arson. The older man faces an additional robbery charge. They are to appear before magistrates via video link later, alongside a 20-year-old man charged with riot and petrol-bomb offences. A fourth arrested man, 19, was released pending a report to prosecutors.

While police have made "vast improvements" in dealing with an "epidemic" of violence against women and girls over a decade, fundamental change is needed to address failings, a watchdog says. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services says three-quarters of an estimated 1.6 million domestic abuse cases a year are closed early, without the suspect being charged. It says "Clare's Law" powers - allowing officers to tell women a partner has a history of abuse - are used so differently by individual forces it amounts to a postcode lottery, while too often police do not work closely enough with other agencies. The report urges violence against women be given as much priority as counter-terrorism. Police say they need more investment.

Some front pages suggest coronavirus travel rules will be changed in time for the half-term holidays. According to the Daily Mail, people who are fully vaccinated will no longer have to take "costly" PCR tests when they return from abroad. Meanwhile, the Times says dozens of countries - including Turkey - will be removed from the red list of countries from where travellers must enter hotel quarantine on return. However, the paper leads on Prime Minister Boris Johnson being challenged by predecessor Theresa May over a new defence pact. The Guardian says the UK and US face an "international backlash" over the Aukus deal to provide nuclear submarines to Australia, amid concerns the alliance could provoke China and trigger conflict in the Pacific.

In an attempt to celebrate perhaps one of the unsung areas of British industry, the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society organised a photography competition. And some of the entries were stunning. Take a look. And an altogether older work of art was shown off to the public for the first time yesterday. A drawing of an exhausted old man has been confirmed as the work of a young Vincent van Gogh. Study for Worn Out was sketched in 1882, Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum said, but had been been sitting in a Dutch family's private collection for more than a century.

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