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Boris Johnson has said he hopes it will be safe to reopen schools in England from 8 March, as the prime minister revealed to MPs when he intends to set out his plan for easing lockdown.

UK nationals and residents returning from 30 "red list" countries will be placed in quarantine in government-provided accommodation - such as hotels - for 10 days, Boris Johnson has told MPs.

A further 1,725 coronavirus deaths have been reported in the UK - a day after the number of COVID-19-related fatalities surpassed 100,000.

A bomb disposal unit is dealing with an incident after a suspicious package was reported at a plant where the AstraZeneca vaccine is put into vials.

Boris Johnson has said he hopes to send children back to school on 8 March - two weeks later than originally planned.

The 737 MAX has been cleared to return to UK airspace nearly two years after it was grounded following deadly crashes .

Masked men have broken into the Moscow flat of detained Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, according to one of his allies.

More than a dozen environmental activists have occupied a 30m (100ft) tunnel they secretly dug at the front of London's Euston station in protest against the HS2 rail project.

The contactless card payment limit for a single transaction could be raised to £100 - more than double the current amount.

Labour is calling for all teachers and school staff to be vaccinated during the February half-term, in a bid to get children back in classrooms.