Ministers let up to 10,000 travellers with coronavirus spread it across the country at the start of the pandemic by failing to bring in quarantine rules early enough, senior MPs have said.

Children should be put “at the heart” of future lockdown plans and schools prioritised over pubs and shops, the children’s commissioner for England has said.

WHSmith has said it could cut up to 1,500 jobs after the coronavirus pandemic caused a drop in customers going into its stores.

John Hume’s family has asked people to protect public health by not lining the streets of Derry for his funeral.

Fulham have booked their immediate return to the Premier League as Joe Bryan struck twice in extra-time to see them past Brentford 2-1 in the Championship play-off final.

Official figures reveal a drop in the number of people in employment compared with March.

Workers take down the statue of Jen Reid from the plinth where Edward Colston’s once stood in Bristol.

Tory MP Julian Lewis beats Chris Grayling to win the position, but loses his place in the parliamentary party.

Unemployment increased by 34,000 in April to reach 1.3 million, according to official data.

Leicester’s mayor has criticised the government for only recently providing data that he claims could have prevented the city’s lockdown “ever being necessary”.