Two paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France.

Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early on Tuesday, seizing four paintings but dropping two of the works in the museum gardens as they escaped, local Mayor Bryan Masson said.

The paintings, each worth €9m (£7.7m; $10.4m), are the latest high-profile pieces to have been stolen in a string of recent heists in Europe which have thrust the security of art in galleries and museums into the spotlight.

One of the most high-profile was in October last year, when a brazen heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris saw France’s priceless crown jewels being stolen.

00:30 What happened?
01:30 Where is the museum
02:30 Local mayor on getaway
03:13 What was stolen
04:08 Could the thieves sell the paintings?
05:24 How big is art theft?
07:08 Could more be done to stop thefts?
08:40 Who is Renoir?

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The international travel ban for England is to be gradually lifted from 17th May 2021.

It means travel from the UK for leisure purposes will no longer be illegal.

People will be able to travel to 12 countries on a ‘green list’ without having to quarantine on their return to the UK – including Portugal, Iceland, Israel, Singapore, Gibraltar, Australia and New Zealand

However strict rules on testing and quarantine will remain in place to protect public health.

Passengers are being warned to expect additional checks and longer queues at border points.

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A senior doctor who tried to raise concerns about Lucy Letby with hospital managers has told the BBC he wishes that he and others “had been brave enough to follow our suspicions and escalate things to the police earlier”.

Consultant paediatrician Dr John Gibbs worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital throughout the period in 2015 to 2016 when Letby murdered seven babies, and attempted to murder seven more, on the neonatal unit.

He said that he accepted that consultants must bear “collective” responsibility for some of the failings identified in the report.

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A former head of the CIA has told the BBC that there’s an urgent need for tighter controls of biological laboratories around the world, to prevent another pandemic, similar to Covid-19.

General David Petraeus, says world leaders need to address the issue, at next month’s G7 summit in Cornwall.

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A row has broken out after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed his party had obtained documents that show the NHS has formed part of talks with the United States about a trade agreement after Brexit. Mr Corbyn says the papers are ‘proof’ that the Conservatives would put the NHS at risk. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the claims were ‘nonsense’ — and the NHS would not be part of any trade talks.

Meanwhile in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has launched the Scottish National Party’s manifesto. The SNP leader said the party promises to ‘escape Brexit and put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands’.

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