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The i says the latest update to the UK’s traffic light travel restrictions came on Wednesday 4 August, with movement on all three lists.

Fully jabbed people can now visit France without quarantining on their return to the UK, following the latest update to the UK travel rules that came into force at 04:00 BST. 

The Times says Spain will not be placed on the travel red list, because of a significant fall in cases and concerns that there are not enough hotel rooms to quarantine holidaymakers returning to England.

BBC News says a proposal to create an “amber watch-list” of countries at risk of moving to red in the travel traffic light system has been abandoned, a government source has told the BBC.

An extra 17 countries should be added to the travel green list at the next government review later this week.

Michael O’Leary could be set to secure a £85m payout despite the rocky 18 months for the travel industry. 

BBC News says people who were fully vaccinated in the US or European Union will no longer have to isolate when arriving in the UK from an amber list country.

The i says Italy could be added to a new ‘amber watch list’ with Spain to warn British holidaymakers the country could join the red list

France24 says France said it failed to understand why it was exempt from the rule allowing fully-vaccinated EU citizens to enter England without quarantining.

The Guardian says opening England’s borders to let millions of people arriving from the US and Europe avoid quarantine could risk importations of new Covid variants.