Holidays? At last we can dare to dream I can’t wait for a quiet cup of tea after teens go back

PUT out the bunting! The PM actually mentioned aviation and holidays when he briefed MPS.

It’s baby steps of progress for the ignored UK travel industry and for a public perplexed by mixed messages about booking a trip abroad.

Boris Johnson did offer ballpark “no earlier than” dates for potential April staycations in holiday lets and camping bubbles, plus open hotels and overseas getaways in May.

A successor to the former Global Travel Taskforce will report back to the PM on international flights by April 12, “so people can plan for summer”. Theresa May pointed out the travel and aviation sectors need three months to prepare a restart, making the “no earlier than” May 17 date for hols overseas a bit tight.

I think any meaningful restart of overseas trips won’t happen before mid-june. Happy to be proved wrong, if it can be done safely.

Dare we hope for hols? Yes!

IT is the news parents have been praying for. After months of Zoom classes and rows over the best method for long division, our children are finally going back to school.

It has been a long, hard slog trying to juggle the demands of their jobs with trying to make sure their kids don’t fall behind.

And in a phrase I never thought I would write, my teenagers are just as desperate to get back to class as I am to see them hop on the school bus once more.

I think Gracie, 16, got the roughest end of the deal. Her GCSES were cancelled leaving her feeling robbed of the chance to prove herself after two years of hard work. Then her prom was cancelled, along with all the festivals and parties she had planned in that first summer of freedom.

Meanwhile 14-year-old Lola spends all day in her bedroom on Zoom classes. Both girls have developed headaches and sore backs from too much time hunched over ipads. They both used to play sport five times a week. But that has been reduced to one Zoom fitness session a week. All rules on screen time have gone out the window. How can I insist they stay off phones and ipads when that is their only means of communication JUGGLER Amanda and girls with friends? I realise my girls are lucky they have access to technology to keep up with classes and stay in touch. But I for one will be leaping out of bed on Monday March 8, relieved about being able to have a cup of tea without someone shouting “Mum”.

PRINCE William has assured the nation his grandfather Prince Philip is “OK”.

As the prince visited a vaccination centre yesterday, he said doctors were just “keeping an eye on” the 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh.

The duke has spent a week in the

King Edward VII’S Hospital in Central London. Taking a break from homeschooling to visit the King’s Lynn Corn Exchange in Norfolk, Prince William told vaccinator Debbie Rudd, 50, he HOSPITAL Duke of Edinburgh was proud of his grandparents for getting the jab. Buckingham Palace has said it would not give a “running commentary” on Philip’s health. Prince Charles made a 200-mile round trip to see him on Saturday.