Health secretary says ‘a lot of the country needs a haircut’ as England ‘on plan’ to further ease lockdown * ‘Hunger, violence, cramped housing’: lockdown life for poorest children * School closures ‘will trigger UK child mental health crisis’ * Global coronavirus updates 10.40am BST TUI is to resume taking holiday bookings within three weeks, expressing “absolute confidence” that the government will relax current travel restrictions. The UK’s biggest tour operator announced it will serve eight destinations across Spain and Greece from July 11. Holidays will be available to the Greek islands of Crete, Rhodes, Kos and Corfu, as well Tenerife and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and Majorca and Ibiza in the Balearics. Due to the size of our organisation we’ve been able to have a presence in each of those Government conversations through our aviation team or through the senior members of the UK business. “Obviously many of those conversations are confidential but that gives us great confidence to open up a small programme to a couple of really key countries, eight key gateways for us. 10.35am BST Boris Johnson has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers over the fatal stabbings in READING, Downing Street has said. The prime minister’s spokesman said: “PM held a meeting at 9am with security officials, police and senior ministers in No 10. Continue reading...
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