5 STORIES COMING UP TODAY

NEW STRAIN TEST

Experts are seeking to urgently test 80,000 people in England for Covid-19 after it emerged that the South African strain of the virus may have spread in some regions. Health officials said 11 people who have tested positive for the variant had no links to travel.

CARE STAFF JABS

The Prime Minister has said there has been a recent big increase in the uptake of vaccinations by care home staff, as he announced that all older care home residents in England had been offered a jab.

COUP CONDEMNED

Boris Johnson has condemned a military coup in Myanmar and criticised the ‘unlawful imprisonment of civilians’ after its leader Aung San Suu Kyi was reportedly detained.

YOUNG TERRORIST

The teenage leader of a neoNazi cell has become one of Britain’s youngest convicted terrorists. The boy, from Cornwall, was aged 13 when he began gathering terrorist material and went on to share far right extremist ideology in online chatrooms. Yesterday, he appeared before the Old Bailey to be sentenced.

DEL BOY STAMPS

The 40th anniversary of the start of Only Fools And Horses is being honoured with a new set of stamps.