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The European Commission was forced into an embarrassing U-turn on Friday when it backtracked on an attempt to restrict flow of the vaccine.

The female – named Egg – was discovered to have a suspected respiratory infection.

The former England rugby player is married to the Queen’s granddaughter Zara.

Boris Johnson was speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre in Batley, West Yorkshire.

Here is a look at some of the questions around the SA strain of the virus.

Nicola Sturgeon said she did not know why vaccination numbers were halving on a Sunday but insisted the rollout was ‘ahead of schedule’.

Anne McLaughlin has now been appointed as the party’s Westminster spokeswoman on justice and immigration.

The 4ft tall birds, famous for their dancing displays, became extinct in the UK about 400 years ago.

Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch accused a reporter of ‘creepy and bizarre’ behaviour for asking why she had not appeared in a vaccination video.

People will be urged to agree to testing, whether they have coronavirus symptoms or not.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross called on his SNP rival to debate the plans with him.

Nick Beighton, chief executive officer at Asos, said the move is ‘not a priority’.

New figures from the Scotch Whisky Association suggest the industry’s exports across the pond have fallen by more than a third.

Think tank Policy Exchange says 400,000 public chargepoints will be required when the sale of new petrol and diesel cars is banned from 2030.

Experts have questioned how much influence the Reddit investors are actually having, and if more traditional investors are also joining in.

Amendments were made to the official document recording the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son.

Just over 100 cases of the South African strain have been identified to date across the UK, but this is the first signal of wider community spread.

Every elderly resident in a care home in Wales has either been vaccinated or offered protection, it has been announced.

Richard Baker was jailed in 1999 for a string of rapes and other sex crimes.

The number of those named is likely to be lower than the true total of workers who have died.