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Downing Street has piled pressure on Sadiq Khan not to stretch out mask wearing rules on Transport for London services longer than necessary.more

As of yesterday, vaccine passports and most other restrictions put in place for the Covid-19 pandemic have been lifted in the Canadian province of Alberta. Protests against the epidemic restrictions are underway in the capital city of Ottawa and at border crossings with the US.more

The British government intends to lift the requirement in England for people infected with the coronavirus a month earlier than planned so far, i.e. at the end of February, announced Prime Minister Boris Johnson today.more

All porn sites operating in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of users to better protect children from pornography, the British government announced yesterday.more

Dozens of Ottawa residents were walking in the city center yesterday with canisters in support of truck drivers protesting the pandemic restrictions. The action was also supposed to show opposition to the local authorities' order, according to which there is a risk of arrest for material support for the protesters.more

Motorists will receive greater protection from “aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees” through a 50% cut to the private parking fine cap, the Government has said. more

The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) is calling on the government and state premiers to develop a nationwide opening plan for catering. Dehoga has also called for the lifting of the curfew, DPA reported yesterday.more

Yesterday a court in Carlisle in the north-west of England sentenced a nine-month suspension for a year and a half to a 56-year-old man who participated in the imprisonment and forced labor of an intellectually handicapped man for 40 years into slave labor.more

The British Competition Authority (CMA) has announced a fine of £ 1.5m on Meta, the owner of, among others Facebook. The case concerns violation of competition protection rules in connection with the takeover of Giphy by Meta. The Meta company said it would pay a fine.more

Checks on agri-food products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK must continue until the case is fully resolved in March, a Belfast court ruled today.more

The British government wants it to be quicker and easier to change or remove from British law the remaining European Union rules that were mechanically transferred into the British legal order after Brexit.more

Masks on flights will be one of the last coronavirus restrictions to be dropped globally and could remain policy for years, experts have said.more

Starting today, the validity of UE Covid Certificates (UCC) will be reduced to 270 days, both those issued after vaccination in the basic schedule and after booster and additional doses. The new guidelines have been prepared based on the position of the Medical Council.more

The Cypriot Supreme Court yesterday acquitted a British woman sentenced in 2020 to four months in prison for sowing contempt. The court ruled that the woman, who accused 12 Israeli teenagers of gang rape in the summer of 2019, was not given a fair trial.more

The obligation to wear masks outdoors has been extended in Italy until February 10; discos will also continue to be closed until that day. The regulation was signed yesterday by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. In doing so, he extended the regulations that had been in place until the end of January.more

Four thousand additional justice of the peace in England and Wales, who deal with petty offenses and minor offenses, are looking to attract the UK Ministry of Justice as a result of an ongoing recruitment campaign.more

The new draft covid legislation completely ignores vaccinations and instead relies on testing and questionable compensation claims, which will do nothing to reduce infections in workplaces, employer organizations said yesterday. They called for the possibility of verifying employee vaccinations.more

The government needs to do "a lot more" to help people struggling with the cost of living, a minister has said, as some Tory MPs called for a rise in National Insurance to be delayed. more

Yesterday's lifting of almost all covid restrictions in England is a symbolically important moment, but in practice little has changed. If one were unaware of this fact, one might not even notice the difference.more

Some stores will suggest customers continue to don a mask, with one large chain saying “safety remains our highest priority”.more

Prince Andrew has denied being a close friend of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, in a legal response to the woman who is suing him in the US for sexual assault. Lawyers for the prince also say he wants to go before a jury to contest the claim brought by Virginia Giuffre.more

Travellers need to be aware of different restrictions in place for international travelmore

Fresh rules are set to be added to the Highway Code in the coming weeks. One of the major changes is the introduction of a road user hierarchy, which puts responsibility on drivers of large vehicles – such as trucks or vans – to reduce the danger posed to others.more

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced yesterday that as of today, some of the restrictions put in place last December 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic will be lifted. Catering and the cultural sector will be open, and sports competitions will be allowed to take place with the public in attendance.more

Holiday bookings have jumped with "notable increases" in trips planned for February half-term and Easter ahead of Covid travel tests being scrapped.more