News in brief

● The Big Issue is to be available in supermarkets and other stores for the first time in its 29-year history in a move aimed at supporting vendors not able to sell it on the streets. Sainsbury’s will stock the magazine in stores and online, while McColl’s will sell it in 1,400 shops across the UK.

● A 13-year-old boy with no apparent underlying health conditions has died after testing positive for coronavirus, his family have said. Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab from Brixton, south London, is understood to have died in King’s College Hospital in the early hours of Monday after testing positive on Friday.

● Singer-songwriter Rick Astley has said he will perform at the Manchester Arena on October 28 for all NHS frontline staff, primary care and emergency services workers as a “thank you” to those working throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

● A British national is among four people to have died on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship embroiled in a bitter dispute over plans to disembark passengers in the US. Two of the dead on the Zaandam have been confirmed to have had Covid-19, with nine testing positive and 189 reporting flu-like symptoms.

● The first person to be arrested on the railways for breaching the new coronavirus lockdown rules has been fined £660. Marie Dinou, 41, from York, was found “loitering between platforms” at Newcastle Central Station on Saturday, British Transport Police said. She was arrested on suspicion of breaking restrictions imposed under the Coronavirus Act 2020 and appeared at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.

● A man who has a 3D printing hobby has been inundated with requests from care homes and his local hospital after he starting churning out protective masks for frontline workers. Sid Lovatt is at home in North Yorkshire, after he was furloughed from his retail job.

● The British military is deploying 80 personnel from all three services to drive emergency vehicles and take calls for South Central Ambulance Service which covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex and Surrey.