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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next June – marking her 70-year reign will see a live concert and a four-day Bank Holiday weekend. 

Assaults on ambulance workers in England has risen by almost a third in five years, more than 3,500 attacks were recorded last year alone. 

The post-mortem examination into the death of Sarah Everard, 33, reveals she died from a ‘compresson of the neck,’ police have said. Serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, from Kent, has been charged with her kidnap and murder.

The daughter-in-law of Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after a Belize police superintendent was shot in the head and killed. 

Many scientists are urging the government to delay the 21 June lockdown easing in England.

Police are hunting 29-year old Daniel Boulton after a woman and child were found dead at a property in High Holme Road, Louth.

One in four restaurants, pubs, bars and other licensed premises have not yet reopened despite the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions that stopped indoor service. 

British actress Kate Winslet wowed fans of Mare of Easttown in the eagerly awaited final episode of the drama. And fans are calling for a season 2! 

France has announced tighter restrictions on foreign travellers in an effort to limit the spread of the variant first identified in India. 

Professor Ravi Gupta has said the June 21 end of all lockdown restrictions should be delayed by “a few weeks” while more data is gathered on the spread of coronavirus.