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Workers in certain critical sectors can now skip quarantine if they are pinged as a close contact of a Covid case.

More than 2,300 Royal College of Art students will be invited to collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams drawn from the college’s four schools.

The dead included a woman pregnant with twins.

Barry Pring, who was originally from Devon, died in Kiev in 2008.

Reduced timetables will be introduced in an attempt to improve reliability after a spate of last-minute cancellations.

The Unite union said September 30 is set to be a bleak day for workers.

The comments come despite Conservative parliamentarians threatening to boycott the autumn event if vaccine passports are required.

Richard Bowser, 44, eventually crashed into a stationary police car following the chase though Co Durham in May.

This is the first time this 400 million-year-old process has been visualised in real time in full root systems of living plants, researchers say.

The Treasury Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee have urged the Prime Minister to ‘look again’ at the issue.

Some 1.4 million requests for care from older people have been turned down since Boris Johnson’s promise, according to Age UK analysis.

The Real IRA attack in 1998 killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.

All parts of the country have seen a rise in infection as lockdown restrictions are loosened.

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that workers in critical industries can avoid isolation after close contact if it would impact on essential services.

Boris Johnson released a video to mark 100 days until the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.

The bird is thought to have been hit by the Mazda 6 and become wedged behind the grille by the force of the impact.

Trade association Abta wants more locations added to the green list, and testing requirements eased.

The four-day festival in Suffolk, part of the Government’s Events Research Programme, is expected to be attended by 40,000 people.

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland said there are just 500 Amur tigers remaining in the wild.

The men, women and children suffocated in the back of a lorry taken from Zeebrugge to Essex in October 2019.