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An update to the budget was also announced.

The UK is to impose a 14-day quarantine requirement for anyone arriving in the country from June 8, but the rules will be reviewed every three weeks.

Lawyers representing Mr Ashley’s Frasers Group, which owns nearly a third of Debenhams’ shares, asked a judge to appoint a ‘provisional liquidator’

The Duke of York has strenuously denied sex allegations made against him by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

The Government has been criticised for the lack of women fronting the briefings – with Priti Patel the only female Cabinet minister to have appeared.

The Cornish Seal Sanctuary has also been playing music to keep its residents happy.

It comes after the US threatened to pull funding from the global health body.

Andrew McCormick, Stormont’s Director General of International Relations, said preparedness on EU exit needs to be ‘dealt with urgently’.

A round-up of Wednesday’s feelgood stories.

The Prime Minister told MPs the country had not learned the lessons of past pandemics.

Two men, aged 36 and 51, were arrested near Bradford on suspicion of importing class A drugs the following day.

The scheme is supported by 25,000 dedicated contact tracers.

Walsall Manor Hospital opened a permanent memorial to those who died including staff nurse Areema Nasreen.

Sylvia Tideswell, 60, had worked on the elderly care wards at Royal Stoke University Hospital since 2003.

The Infrastructure minister said the last thing Northern Ireland needed was a ‘cliff edge’ departure from the transition arrangements.

The broadcaster said that staff had been ‘reminded’ of the corporation’s impartiality rules.

Nichola Mallon said the recent actions by the Prime Minister’s top adviser have ’caused great anger’.