The UK has recorded another 1,295 coronavirus deaths and a further 41,346 infections, latest government figures show.

Local authorities are losing tens of millions of pounds supporting struggling business tenants through the pandemic which could have dire and long-lasting consequences for local services, Sky News has found.

The second of two new coronavirus variants from Brazil is likely to already be in the UK despite the government imposing a travel ban, a leading epidemiologist has warned.

All three rapid COVID testing centres in Luton were temporarily closed because of snow in the area, the council said, while other parts of England also woke up to snowfall.

Sir Keir Starmer has called on the home secretary to "take responsibility" for hundreds of thousands of police records which were accidentally deleted from a national database.