Britons are being warned to stay "measured and cautious" as lockdown eases today - but a minister has told Sky News that the Indian COVID variant is unlikely to derail plans to end all restrictions in England on 21 June.

Restrictions in England are easing today with changes to the rules on indoor and outdoor mixing, and indoor hospitality reopening.

Heavy bombing has continued in Gaza in the early hours of the morning as Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes across several locations. 

From my home in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, I called our local producer in Gaza.

There are few better ways to see the gem that is the Algarve than from the water.

Thousands have queued up for walk-in vaccinations in parts of the North West as areas hit by the Indian variant have boosted their jab programmes.

Four men have been arrested by officers investigating a video which appeared to show antisemitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London, police have said.

A group of Australian cricketers have landed in Sydney after spending up to two weeks in the Maldives waiting for coronavirus border restrictions to be lifted on arrivals from India.

Thousands of British holidaymakers have started to fly out the country - with some heading to amber list destinations - as the ban on overseas leisure travel is lifted in England, Wales and most of Scotland.