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Dubai is back on the UK's travel corridors - meaning that Brits won't need to quarantine for 14 days when they return after 4am on Saturday 4th November.

Brits are scrambling to get back to the UK from Turkey and Poland before quarantine restrictions come into force.

Jeremy Clarkson, 60, who hosts Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and The Grand Tour with Richard Hammond, 50, and James May, 57, has addressed his concerns over the state of Hammersmith Bridge's closure after being so "weak" it may collapse at any moment.

Police have handed out less than 40 fines to passengers not wearing a face covering on public transport after they were made mandatory.Latest data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) shows 38 notices were issued by police forces since the introduction of the new rule making face coverings mandatory in England from June 15 and in Wales from June 27.It comes after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that one in 10 travellers were flouting the rule.If passengers are caught not wearing a mask on board, except for those exempt, they can risk being fined £100 and removed from the service.Out of the Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued, 32 were by the British Transport Police (BTP), with four from West Midlands Police, and one each by

coronavirus cases in the territories.

Croatia could be added to the UK's quarantine list this week unless the number of new cases continues to fall in the next few days.

The transport secretary has responded to questioning on the death of railway ticket officer, Belly Mujinga.

A smartphone app to trace the spread of coronavirus will be trialled this week before being rolled out more widely later this month, the Government has announced.

The government has warned some 10m key workers and their households not to ‘waste’ booking a coronavirus test as 16,000 were ordered on the first day of the online launch.

Brits should only go shopping for food "once a week" if possible, a Tory Cabinet minister has claimed.

hereBut with the reopening of many high-street shops, does that mean you also need to wear a face covering when shopping?It has not currently been made compulsory to wear a face mask when out shopping in a supermarket or in other stores such as clothing retailers when they reopen.Many chains have put social-distancing measures and other rules in place to meet Covid-secure government guidance.On Friday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said at the daily government briefing there was no need for people to wear face coverings in all public settings, just in enclosed spaces.Responding to whether people should wear face coverings at all times in public, Mr Shapps said: “By its very nature if you are on a train or a plane or a ferry or a bus you

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has denied claims the chief nursing officer for England was dropped from Number 10 press briefings because she refused to defend the disgraced advisor Dominic Cummings. According to reports Ruth May was removed from a briefing when she refused to support Cummings’s decision to move his family 260 miles to Durham to stay on his parents’ farms.

Primary schools and nurseries will reopen to more pupils on June 1, the Transport Secretary has insisted amid fears it would be unsafe.