The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

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“My plan is that we should be able to offer a vaccine to everybody in categories one to nine – that’s all the over-50s – by May,” - Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms the government’s latest aims for the vaccine rollout.

“These top nine groups account for around 99% of those that have died from Covid and about 80% of hospital admissions. It will be almost impossible to justify having any restrictio­ns in place at all by that point,” - Covid Recovery Group chairman, Tory MP Mark Harper, argues lockdown should be lifted when the over-50s are vaccinated.

“Please remember Olly as a loving, caring, funny soul who would stick up for the underdog, who would never back down from injustice, prejudice, inequality or cruelty,” - Stuart Stephens pays tribute to his late 13-year-old son Olly at the teenager’s funeral service at Reading Crematoriu­m.

“I woke up this morning and I saw something on Instagram and I nearly passed out. It was Brian May had done a wee guitar solo on his Instagram. He said, ‘I have seen Nathan Evans’ and at the end he said, ‘God bless you all and especially Nathan Evans’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God’,” Viral sea shanty sensation Nathan Evans says he hopes to collaborat­e with Queen star and guitar lagend May in the future.

“Read the standing orders, read them and understand them,” Handforth Parish Council vicechair Aled Brewerton helps a virtual meeting of councillor­s go viral with a heated debate with meeting clerk Jackie Weaver.

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