🏡The PM is expected to announce that 6 people or members from up to two households will be able to mix indoors.
It is also expected that long-awaited hugs will be allowed as long as people use their “common sense”
🍽️ Hospitality
👩🍳The PM is expected to announce that pubs, restaurants, bars and cafes can restart indoor dining.
Hotels, hostels and B&Bs in England will also be allowed to take group bookings, meaning people can plan domestic getaways
✈️ Holidays
🚥We can expect that travel abroad will also be permitted with the traffic light system of green, amber and red list countries setting the rules on quarantine
🎳 Entertainment
The PM is expected to announce that indoor entertainment venues can open again.
This includes:
🎞️Cinemas
🎭Theatres and concert halls
🖼️Galleries and museums
🎳Bowling alleys
🥳 Celebrations
The expected changes to celebrations state that outdoor events can now host a 50% capacity with up to 4,000 people allowed.
🎊Indoor events can have 50% capacity with up to 1,000 people
❓However, there are still questions that need answering regarding social distancing and working from home.
🐳Hundreds gathered at Richmond Lock and Weir on Sunday evening after the whale became stuck on the lock's boat rollers.
Rescuers managed to hoist the mammal onto an inflatable raft in the early hours of Monday, but it managed to wriggle free
The whale was found "totally lost" on Monday morning at around 10.20am at Teddington Lock, swimming against the current.
⛑️The RNLI rushed to the scene, but it is unclear if they will be able to attempt a rescue attempt due to the whale's state of distress and the shallow waters
The survey, commissioned by the School’s Active Movement, is the largest analysis of how the winter lockdown impacted young people.
It also recorded an alarming drop in:
📚Pupil resilience
⚽️Activity levels
💬Social interaction
💪Fundamental movement skills
🏫2,647 schools were surveyed in the research.
✏️ Teachers were asked to score how children had returned from 9 weeks of lockdown according to key physical and emotional measurements telegraph.co.uk/sport/2021/05/…
🐄Restricted by current roadmap regulations, outdoor entertainer Professor Brian Davey rehearses his popular puppetry show with characters Punch & Judy to an audience of dairy cows
The Natural History Museum @NHM_London has unearthed a “treasure trove” of thousands of bat skulls, skins and pickled specimens dating back roughly 300 years, which researchers hope may shed light on the origins of pandemics – including Covid-19 🧵
By indexing roughly 12,000 samples from three major bat families stored deep in its vaults, the museum aims to help scientists trace where the flying mammals have lived over centuries, and how the viruses they carry “spillover” to humans
🦇The Telegraph was given exclusive access to the Museum’s bat collection, which includes specimens that pre-date 1753 – when the world renowned institution was founded