2022-01-06
Times Front Page 6th of January 2022
Britons thinking of taking a winter break have been given a boost, The Times reports, after travel rules to stop Omicron spreading were scrapped.
Britons thinking of taking a winter break have been given a boost, The Times reports, after travel rules to stop Omicron spreading were scrapped.
Boris Johnson has signalled the country could be “back to normal in weeks”, according to the Daily Mail, after the government “scrapped almost all testing rules on foreign travel”.
The NHS is facing a crisis with soaring staff absences and a large rise in COVID patients, the Daily Mirror reports.
The Daily Star focuses on a campaign to stop Tony Blair receiving a knighthood.
It is feared that “other monuments will be targeted” after four activists who pulled down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol were cleared, the Daily Express says.
Anti-racism campaigners have hailed a jury’s decision to clear those who admitted toppling a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, describing it as a huge step in getting the UK to face up to its colonial past, The Guardian reports.
The Telegraph says four Black Lives Matter activists who admitted toppling the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol walked free from court after a jury “agreed they had committed no crime”.