The easing of UK lockdown rules, announced on Thursday, will allow up to six people to meet outside from Monday although the rules will vary in England, Scotland and Wales.

National Police Chiefs' Council reveals almost 17,000 fines for allegedly breaching COVID-19 lockdown rules have been issued, though there has been a significant drop since lockdown measures were eased.

Senior adviser to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, is considering quitting later this year as a consequence of his trip from London to northern England, which was described by local police as a “minor” breach of the coronavirus lockdown, the Daily Mail newspaper reported.

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said people will be able to meet with up to six friends and family members in gardens and other private outdoor spaces in England from next week.

Durham Police, having fined at least two people who travelled to the county from London, decided not to take any action against senior adviser to the PM Dominic Cummings for the same journey despite having concluded that he had in fact broken lockdown rules.

British pharmaceutical GSK announced that its H1N1 vaccine, Pandemrix, which used some of the same ingredients as COVID-19 vaccines currently under development, was not linked to a rise in cases of narcolepsy.

Church of England bishops have expressed unusually strong criticism of Boris Johnson over his defense of actions taken by his chief aide Dominic Cummings.

Doctors’ leaders want an end to a “wall of silence” around how many swab tests on NHS staff produce wrong results.

The UK government has been accused of being “arrogant and offensive” and “truth twister” in a tweet on the official Twitter account for the UK Civil Service.

It has been revealed that Britain took steps to end mass testing and contact tracing of those with or suspected of having COVID-19 in March since a surge in new cases at that time would have been beyond the system’s capacity.