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Advertisement Furious locals in Britain's eight Indian variant hotspots have claimed they only found out about the travel ban today as they lamented being forced to cancel long-awaited trips and family reunions at the last minute.  Updated Covid guidance brought in without any warning has urged people not to visit Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside.  It was published by Downing Street on Friday, and asked for 'an extra cautious approach' in areas that have been hit hardest by the Indian variant of Covid-19.     Ministers wer...

Advertisement Bolton's Indian coronavirus variant outbreak may have started to flatten out, latest data from the Government's Covid dashboard suggests.  MailOnline's analysis of Department of Health figures show positive tests appear to have plateaued in the borough for the first time in a month, following a period of exponential growth fuelled by the mutant B.1.617.2 strain in April and early May.  Figures show Bolton's rolling seven-day average number of infections was about 185 on May 17, the most recent date for which data is available, after dropping slightly the day before (from 178 t...