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The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said ministers should ‘revisit’ the proposals.

The Police Federation of England and Wales’ John Apter said thousands of potentially unvaccinated officers would gather in Cornwall for the summit.

Natalie McGarry said she had expected Nicola Sturgeon to immediately act to stop the then first minister ‘in his tracks’.

Mrs Justice O’Farrell, at the High Court, said the decision to appoint marketing firm Public First ‘gave rise to apparent bias and was unlawful’.

Progressive Unionist Party leader Billy Hutchinson said issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol could only be resolved with ‘political solutions’.

North-west England is now averaging the highest number of patients since April.

Spanish retail group Inditex, which also owns the Bershka and Pull & Bear brands, said latest sales were 5% higher than in 2019.

The Government’s website was among a raft of major online names knocked offline for almost an hour on Tuesday.

The body representing zoos around the UK is investigating recent animal deaths at Blair Drummond near Stirling.

Some 94% of adults in Britain reported positive sentiment, while 6% reported hesitancy, the Office for National Statistics found.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson branded the removal of a picture of the monarch from a common room at Magdalen College ‘simply absurd’.

The artist died aged 42 in 1963.

The pandemic and deployments caused delays to the nuptial plans of Lance Corporal Jake Kennedy and Petty Officer (Nurse) Jo Parke.

NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said any decision on easing remaining lockdown restrictions in England on June 21 was finely balanced.

Andy Burnham said people in Lancashire and Greater Manchester should aim to ‘minimise’ the number of people they watch the match with on Sunday.

Andy Haldane, who is leaving the Bank of England at the end of June, said better-paid jobs need to be created to get people off furlough.

The MSC Virtuosa had been expected to arrive in Greenock, Inverclyde, on Wednesday morning.

Lissie Harper wants to see the introduction of a mandatory life sentence for those who kill emergency workers due to a criminal act.

Union members at the organisation’s offices in Swansea have launched a series of strikes and more industrial action is planned.

The Competition and Markets Authority will investigate whether consumer laws were broken during the pandemic.