Sunderland Echo

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JABS ‘ ON TARGET’

The Government is set to hit its UK-wide target of offering a Covid-19 vaccine to people most at risk by today, after England and Wales said those groups had been reached. NHS England said the four key groups

‘have now been offered the opportunit­y to be vaccinated’.

KILLER’S 27 YEARS

A ‘malignant twist of fate’ led a sexual deviant to cross paths with 21-year-old Libby Squire on the night he raped and murdered her in Hull, a judge said. Pawel Relowicz was given life with a minimum term of 27 years. Mrs Justice Lambert said he was ‘very dangerous’ after dumping the student in a river.

HOTELS ‘IN LINE’

Downing Street has insisted its hotel quarantine policy is ‘in line’ with other countries, despite being warned by an Australian epidemiolo­gist that allowing travellers to leave their room for fresh air is ‘very risky’.

‘NO COVER UP’

The Metropolit­an Police has insisted there was no cover up in the botched VIP child sex abuse inquiry after confidence in Commission­er Dame Cressida Dick was called into question.

BABY GOES HOME

Parents Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank have begun their life as a family after they took their new baby son home. He has yet to be named.

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