Sajid Javid apologises for ‘cower’ Covid remark

The government is in talks with hotels to secure thousands of rooms for new quarantine rules from 15 February.

Widespread unrest continues in France for a fifth night over killing of a teenage boy by police.

About 30 of those board survived the accident near the western Kazakh city of Aktau.

There is “increasing confidence” Covid vaccines are effective against the variant, Matt Hancock says.

Mikey Roynon, 16, was killed with a zombie knife. The BBC speaks to those touched by his death.