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Lockdown eased for adults living alone and single parents – BBC News

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The Prime Minister has announced that lockdown rules in England will be eased from Saturday for adults living alone and single parents with children under the age of 18.

They will be able to form what the Prime Minister is calling a “support bubble” with another household.

It means that a grandparent can go and stay with their grandchildren and no longer have to social distance, or a couple who have been kept apart by lockdown can spend the night together, or a single parent can link up with their own parents or a friend.

The rules say you can only choose one other household for your bubble. But you won’t have to register that as it’s being done on trust. Boris Johnson said the measure was to help those who’ve been particularly lonely during lockdown.

The Labour Leader Keir Starmer has renewed calls for a national taskforce to get schools in England up and running again. Speaking in the Commons he said the government’s plans were ‘in tatters’. The Prime Minister said there was a very big plan to get all pupils back to school by September and that the government would give more details next week about a summer catch up programme.

Meanwhile a leading scientist who advised the government has said that half the deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided if the lockdown had been introduced earlier.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg and Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys.

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‘Let’s not blow it!’ Trump says after Israel strikes Beirut | BBC News

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Iran’s chief negotiator says there’s “no point” in continuing talks with the US after Israel launched a strike on Beirut.

It comes after US President Donald Trump said a deal would be signed on Sunday.

Israel says it struck a command centre run by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, and adds that Hezbollah attacked Israel “unprovoked” – Lebanese officials say three people have been killed.

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We’re seeing a “race-based pogrom” in Belfast, MP Claire Hanna said. #BBCNews

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How gamers lost £400,000 fighting a huge virtual space war | BBC News

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James Cunningham hadn’t slept. He’d been up all night “fighting for his life”.

The 27-year-old from Ware in Hertfordshire was trying to save a virtual empire from the brink of destruction – using a keyboard and mouse.

James says he “didn’t expect everything to go wrong”, recalling the explosive conflict that broke out in June 2025. “But it did.”

He’d spent thousands of hours – up to 16 a day – and roughly £6,000 playing EVE Online, a role-playing game played by tens of thousands of people around the world.

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Artist David Hockney dies aged 88 | BBC News

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David Hockney has died at the age of 88, his publicist said.

The British artist is one of the most influential of the modern era and was one of the leaders of the 1960s pop art movement.

In 2018, one of his swimming pool paintings sold for nearly £70 million at auction – a record for a living artist.

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