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  • Susanna Reid shares funny Prince Philip story on Good Morning Britain following royal’s death

    Pair met at an event for the Duke of Edinburgh award

  • Black Londoners three times more likely to be murdered than other ethnic groups, figures show

    Exclusive: Prominent race equality campaigners say statistics highlight ‘unaddressed generational levels of systemic racism’

  • China deploys jets and bombers into Taiwanese airspace in 'biggest incursion to date'

    Twenty-five Chinese military aircraft have entered Taiwanese airspace in the largest reported incursion to date, according to officials. Taiwan's government has complained in recent months after repeated missions by China's air force near the island. The incursions have been concentrated in the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence zone.

  • Dillian Whyte questions ‘joker’ Tyson Fury’s heavyweight credentials

    Brixton boxer is still after a fight with the ‘Gypsy King’

  • Over-40s set for COVID vaccines from this week – but many could face longer wait

    Coronavirus vaccines could be offered to over-40s from Tuesday – though supply constraints mean many will have to wait longer.

  • ‘They do not work’: COVID expert’s warning over face shields as pubs and salons reopen

    Prof Christina Pagel warned that face shields should be worn with masks.

  • Have your say: Which lockdown rule change today are you most excited about?

    A number of lockdown restrictions eased in England on Monday.

  • ‘Per Mare, Per Terram’: What is the Marines slogan used by Harry in Philip tribute

    The Duke of Sussex has arrived in the UK ahead of Saturday’s funeral

  • Snowfall hits large parts of the West Country

    Drone footage of snow over Montpellier Park in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, this morning (April 12). As beer gardens and outdoor dining opens up, large parts of the country were hit by snowfall during the night.

  • Iran vows revenge against Israel for strike on Natanz nuclear plant

    Iran’s foreign minister on Monday vowed vengeance against Israel for an explosion a day earlier at the Natanz nuclear site that he blamed directly on Tehran’s arch enemy. “The Zionists want to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions ... they have publicly said that they will not allow this. But we will take our revenge from the Zionists,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by state TV. Israel has all but claimed responsibility for the apparent sabotage operation that damaged the electricity grid at the Natanz site on Sunday, with multiple Israeli outlets reporting that Mossad carried out the operation, which is believed to have shut down entire sections of the facility. The sabotage could set back uranium enrichment at the facility by at least nine months, US officials briefed on the operation told the New York Times. Iran on Monday said the person who caused the power outage at one of the production halls at Natanz had been identified. "Necessary measures are being taken to arrest this person," the semi-official Nournews website reported, without giving further details. Iran's foreign ministry also said on Monday it is suspending cooperation with the European Union in various fields following the bloc's decision to blacklist several Iranian security officials over a 2019 protest crackdown. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh "strongly condemned" the sanctions and said Iran is "suspending all human rights talks and cooperation resulting from these talks with the EU, especially in (the fields of) terrorism, drugs and refugees". The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on eight Iranian militia commanders and police chiefs, including the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards, over a deadly crackdown in November 2019.

  • Midnight beer gardens and beauty treatments as people brave snow for England’s relaxed COVID lockdown

    England's COVID-19 lockdown was eased on Monday.

  • China launches snitching hotline to report ‘illegal’ comments about Communist Party

    Some have called the move an ‘Orwellian power-grab’

  • Nikki Grahame death: Big Brother winner Pete Bennett opens up about reality star’s death in tearful interview

    Reality star rushed to see Grahame weeks before her death

  • EU, Britain seek to bridge differences over Northern Ireland

    Britain and the European Union are slowly working to overcome differences regarding trade flows between Northern Ireland and the British mainland after a month-long legal dispute and more than a week of rioting in the province. The EU is expecting a formal reply shortly from London to explain Britain's unilateral change to trading conditions that Brussels said breaches the Brexit divorce deal. A European Commission spokesman said the two sides were holding technical discussions and there could soon be a meeting of Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic and British negotiator David Frost.

  • Scottish Parliament pays tribute to ‘spirited and energetic’ Duke of Edinburgh

    Holyrood was recalled for only the sixth time in its history to consider a Motion of Condolence.

  • Largest surge testing to date deployed in two London boroughs after South African variant confirmed

    Surge testing has been deployed across south London after the South African variant of coronavirus was detected in a number of boroughs. A total of 44 confirmed cases and 30 probable cases of the B.1.351 variant have been discovered across Wandsworth and Lambeth. It is the UK’s largest surge testing operation to date, with residents of both boroughs encouraged to get a test regardless of whether they have symptoms. All patients confirmed as having the variant of the virus are either currently self-isolating or have completed their quarantine, and all of their contacts have now been traced and asked to isolate. Everyone over the age of 11 in Wandsworth and Lambeth has been advised to take a PCR test to determine whether or not they have the virus, with a number of pop-up testing facilities likely to be deployed. Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, said the cluster of cases is "significant". "It's really important people in the local area play their part in stopping any further spread within the local community," she said. Surge testing was rolled out across Wandsworth last month after a number of South African variant cases were reported which could not be traced back to international travel. The South African variant was also detected in Lambeth in February, which led to surge testing across three postcodes. Surge testing was announced on Sunday evening in Hillingdon, when the council confirmed that a single case of the South African variant had been detected.

  • Ukraine accuses Russia of blocking talks to defuse tense military stand-off

    The president of Ukraine accused Vladimir Putin of ignoring attempts to reach him by telephone to defuse the rapidly spiralling military stand off between his country and Russia. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said via his spokesman on Monday that he had asked the Kremlin for a phone call with the Russian president more than three weeks ago, but had so far been ignored. "The Kremlin, of course, has the request to talk to Vladimir Putin. We haven't received a response so far and very much hope that it's not a refusal of dialogue," Iuliia Mendel told The Associated Press. She said the request was lodged on March 26, when four Ukrainian troops were killed in a mortar attack in eastern Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that he hadn't seen any requests from Mr Zelenskiy "in recent days". Russia has moved large numbers of troops towards its borders with Ukraine over the past month, fuelling fears that it may be planning a repeat of its 2014 assault on its eastern neighbour, which saw it annex Crimea and prop up two break-away states in the eastern Donbas region.

  • Police officer fired for pepper-spraying Black army officer in ‘horrifying’ traffic stop captured on film

    Army lieutenant has filed a federal lawsuit against two officers

  • Latest weekly Covid-19 rates for local authority areas in England

    Mansfield, Corby and Barnsley are currently recording the highest rates.

  • William and Harry's tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh show just how far apart they are

    The sentiments may have been similar – but the styles could not have been more contrasting. As the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex released very different tributes to their grandfather within 30 minutes of each other on Monday, it was impossible to resist reading between the lines. In days gone by, the royal brothers would have put out a joint statement commemorating such an important role model in both their lives. Yet with tensions between the two princes seemingly still bristling ahead of Prince Philip's funeral on Saturday, we were left to decipher the coded messages contained within. William's 173-word missive was the first to drop on the Kensington Palace website at 2pm, paying tribute to "a century of life defined by service". Praising his grandfather as an "extraordinary man and part of an extraordinary generation", the seemly eulogy gave a nod to the Duke of Edinburgh's "infectious sense of adventure as well as his mischievous sense of humour". There was also acknowledgement of his "enduring presence... both through good times and the hardest days", a reference to his stalwart support following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, when he encouraged William to walk behind their mother’s coffin with the words: "If I walk, will you walk with me?"