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Two Lanarkshire MPs are among a number of elected officials found to have charged their Amazon Prime subscriptions to the taxpayer during the past 18 months.

A Tory minister has sparked confusion over whether students will need to be double jabbed to attend lectures in the autumn.

online. But they will have to start footing the bill for 25% of the cost of supplying and delivering the breakfast in nine months time.

Buckingham Palace is facing calls to investigate any racism allegations after the Duchess of Sussex claimed an unnamed member of the royal family raised “concerns and conversations” about the skin colour of her son Archie.

School pupils who test positive for Covid in a 'rapid test' will have to isolate with their families for 10 days, a minister has said - even if a non-rapid test comes back negative a few days later.

Thousands of five-years olds are to get five months of one-to-one support to help them catch up with key language skills disrupted by the pandemic.

Children must not hug their friends or have play dates inside their homes, an education minister has urged.Celebrities Ant and Dec asked Vicky Ford, minister for children and families, a series of questions from pupils in a virtual assembly on the worries that young people are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The stars read out primary school pupils’ queries about home learning, coronavirus testing, social distancing and whether Christmas will be postponed as part of the special NSPCC assembly to thousands of families.Ms Ford told children that everyone still had a vital role to play in reducing the risk of spreading the virus, adding that following the rules would help get life back to normal as quickly as possible.Addressing pupils as

Celebrities Ant and Dec and David Walliams will give a virtual assembly to schoolchildren on the worries that young people are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.