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Prince William and his brother Prince Harry will not walk shoulder to shoulder in their grandfather’s funeral procession on Saturday, following speculation they could do so. The Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex, who have been reunited in person for the first time following the explosive Oprah interview last month, will both be in attendance on Saturday. However, the brothers will walk separately, either side of their cousin Peter Phillips – Princess Anne’s son – as they trail their grandfather’s coffin at St George’s chapel in Windsor. When the coffin is taken into the chapel at Windsor Castle, William will then move ahead of Harry as the family arrives in pairs. Details of the funeral were released by Buckingham Palace on Thursday, marking almost a week since the death of Prince ...

Boris Johnson has urged against people meeting others from different households indoors over the Easter weekend, warning vaccines do not guarantee 100% protection from coronavirus. Groups of up to six, or two households, are now able to meet up in parks and gardens after the stay-at-home order ended in England earlier this week, but socialising indoors remains banned to limit the spread of the virus. As millions plan to see friends and family over the bank holiday weekend, the Prime Minister warned that the country was not yet at the stage of allowing people to meet indoors. The earliest date that families and friends could be reunited inside their homes under the Government’s road map is May 17, with the rule of six or two households then set to apply indoors. During a Twitter quest...

  A likely slowdown in new Covid-19 vaccinations due to a growing backlog of booster shots underscores the fragility of the Government’s target of jabs for all over-50s by early May, Telegraph analysis shows. If second doses ramp up in mid-March roughly two weeks before the 12 week deadline for revaccination sets in then the daily pace of first doses could grind to a halt before all over-50s receive theirs, projections based on the UK’s current roll-out suggests. Getting through the accumulated backlog of second dose recipients at a 10-week delay from their first without an increase in daily capacity would slow first doses down for two months meaning initial jabs for the 32 million in the nine priority groups by May could go down to the wire. Nonetheless current rates suggest ...

Secondary schools in England will not open to most pupils until the middle of January as ministers battle to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. Primary schools in a small number of areas of England where coronavirus infection rates are at their highest will also not reopen for face-to-face teaching next week, education secretary Gavin Williamson has announced. The full list will be published by the government later today, Mr Williamson, said as he told MPs ministers must always act swiftly when circumstances change. The announcement came less than an hour after health secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that three-quarters of the country would be placed under the tightest coronavirus restrictions from midnight tonight. As ministers desperately try to bring the latest wave of the...

There are now more coronavirus patients in England’s hospitals than there were during the peak of the first wave of the pandemic, new figures show. As of 8am on Monday, there were 20,426 patients in the country’s NHS hospitals compared to the 18,974 patients recorded on April 12, NHS England revealed. The sobering update comes after the UK recorded its highest daily number of Covid-19 cases to date, with 41,385 infections confirmed as of 9am on Monday, according to the Department of Health. Meanwhile, London’s Nightingale hospital has been stripped of its beds as medics warn there are not enough staff to run the facility, the Telegraph reported. The facility at the Excel centre is being dismantled, while the majority of the seven Nightingale units created at a cost of £220 millio...

    Winds reached more than 100mph overnight as Storm Bella battered the UK bringing rain and blowy conditions across the UK. Two threat to life flood warnings remain in place in Northamptonshire after days of wintry weather across the Christmas break, with a cold snap with icy and wintry conditions still to come. The top wind speed was recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight where it reached 106mph overnight on Saturday. Aberdaron in north west Wales experienced gusts of 83mph, and locations on the south coast of England, including Dorset, got close to 80mph. Elsewhere in the UK, there was severe flooding with fire crews dispatched to rescue those were caught out or left stranded by flood waters. The most severely affected areas including Cambridgeshire, Bedfor...

  Details of the historic free trade agreement between the UK and EU have been published in full, as EU ambassadors began the process of assessing and approving the terms of the deal before the end of the year. The landmark trade deal, which was announced by UK prime minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on Thursday, will come into provisional force on January 1, and is the biggest bilateral trade deal signed by either country, covering trade worth around £660bn. The deal, which followed nine months of tense negotiations, will guarantee tariff-free trade on most goods and create a platform for future co-operation on issues such as crime-fighting, energy and data sharing. However concerns are emerging surrounding the support for UK b...

    A further 800 military personnel have been sent to Kent to help thousands of lorry drivers waiting to cross into France on Christmas Day. Some 1,100 troops have been deployed as part of the operation at the English Channel border after French Covid-19 restrictions caused severe disruption at the Port of Dover. Thousands of hauliers are now spending Christmas Day in their cabs despite efforts to clear the backlog of lorries. Army personnel will be testing drivers for coronavirus and distributing food and water, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday that more than 10,000 tests had been carried out, of which 24 came back positive for the virus. France closed its border last Sunday following the discovery of a fast-spreadi...

    Boris Johnson today declared the deal is done after striking a historic trade pact between the UK and EU. The deal on goods worth £668 billion will mean zero tariffs and zero quotas, a UK source said, and would mean Britain has taken back control of our money, borders, laws, trade and our fishing waters. Four-and-a-half years after the 2016 Brexit referendum, agreement was reached just hours before Christmas Day. Mr Johnson tweeted a picture of himself smiling with both thumbs lifted in the air. The deal is done, he wrote. At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said the deal will protect jobs across this country and has taken back control of our laws and our destiny. He said that for the first time since 1973 the UK will be an independent coastal state w...

    Agreement on a post-Brexit trade deal appears likely to be announced within hours, after nine months of tortuous negotiations. A meeting of EU ambassadors has been pencilled in for Christmas Eve to start the ratification process. Sources in Brussels and London confirmed they believed the talks were now coming to a successful conclusion. Diplomats representing the EU member states are already combing through some of the the 2,000 pages of legal text that have been agreed. The European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is understood to have been in constant contact with Boris Johnson in the last 72 hours, as she has sought to strike a compromise satisfactory to Downing Street and the member states. A final call is believed to be scheduled for Wednesday eve...