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Hugging is set to return to English life next week as part of the next stage of easing coronavirus restrictions. Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Monday (10 May) that hugging family and close friends can resume as part of measures which will also allow groups of up to six people to stay overnight and socialise in other people’s homes. International travel without any quarantine requirements will resume to a small group of countries, including Portugal. Social restrictions are set to end altogether in mid-June, according to the government’s timetable. In the meantime, cinemas, the...

Our new column is here to help you get dressed again... 7 May 2021 • 5:00am Cotton-muslin dress, £325, Marina Rinaldi It’s been the year style has been put on ice in favour of track suit pants and slippers. But now it’s time to refind your fashion confidence and dip your toe back into something braver. In our new Wardrobe Whisperer column, our team will find a solution for every style crisis. This spring I have seen some lovely long dresses and it fills me with hope. I’ve been looking for three years! I’d like something cotton, high-necked and long- or three-quarter-sleeved. I am a...

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are likely to reap the benefits of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme in local elections on Thursday. The Tories are on course to win mayoral races in Birmingham and the north east of England and the prize of the Hartlepool seat in the UK parliament, a constituency which has been represented by Labour for nearly 60 years. Having been widely criticised for his handling of the pandemic last year, which saw the UK have the highest death toll in Europe, the prime minister has been rewarded with a poll boost for the speedy pace of the UK’s vaccination progr...

The Channel island of Jersey has become the unlikely centre of the wider row over access to fishing waters between the UK and France, with the government in Paris on Tuesday threatening that electricity supply to the island could be stopped. A tax haven with an economy based around off-shore financial services, Jersey is a British Crown Dependence but is not part of the UK, and its autonomous government last week granted 41 permits to French fishing vessels. However, the French government has complained that the permits include conditions on where the vessels can go and how long they can be a...

  This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are talking about the ratification of the EU’s post-Brexit trade agreement with the UK. At last, we may be seeing the turning of the page on economic and diplomatic relations between the two parties. To break down the components of the deal, we spoke with EURACTIV’s Benjamin Fox. We are also off to the Czech Republic, where a storm was sparked by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who referred to the European Commission’s auditors as “mafia.” His comment came after a report linked him with one of the largest agricultural companies in the count...