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The UK’s unemployment rate has hit 5% for the first time since 2016, according to official figures which suggest over 200,000 people lost their jobs in the three months to November.
An announcement on mandatory hotel quarantine will be made later, a government minister has told Sky News, as he said it was “far too early” for Britons to be thinking about booking a summer holiday.
Data on when coronavirus lockdown restrictions can start to be eased will be assessed before mid-February, the prime minister has said.
Travel industry sources have told Sky News they expect mandatory hotel quarantine to be introduced imminently, as the government tries to suppress new variants of coronavirus.
A woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl has had her minimum term increased after the judge said it had been “calculated in error”.
A judicial review is being launched this week into claims the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) unlawfully abandoned “weak” rape cases to boost conviction rates.
The UK’s vaccination programme is a “resoundingly powerful” argument for the benefits of the Union, the health secretary has said.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of an 11-year-old boy.
A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to life after being found guilty of the murder of a 15-year-old boy.
A woman has admitted killing her disabled 10-year-old son after suffering a mental breakdown during lockdown.
