Travel firms are seeing a huge rush to book summer holidays after a new deal means restrictions on travel to many countries in Europe will be lifted from July 6th.

A new “traffic light” system will set risk levels for individual countries – with a “Green” rating allowing unrestricted travel. Many destinations including France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey are likely to be open to British tourists.

It means that holidaymakers will be able to return to the UK without having to self-isolate for 14 days.  The Foreign Office will also lift its advice against ‘all but essential travel’ to low or medium-risk destinations, making it possible to obtain travel insurance.

However the continued easing of restrictions will depend on the UK maintaining a low level of coronavirus infections, in order for other countries to accept British tourists.

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Queen Elizabeth II has outlined the UK government’s legislative agenda – what laws they plan to introduce in this parliamentary …

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Housing affordability is a growing issue in Canada, and was a hot topic in the recent elections.

Average home prices are up 13% compared with this time last year – but incomes haven’t kept up.

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More than 11,000 deaths related to drugs have been recorded in Scotland in the last 10 years, making it the drug death capital of Europe.

But what caused this national crisis?

BBC Scotland’s James Cook takes a look at the complex and interlinked issues that have caused it.

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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Shamima Begum, who ran away from Britain when she was 15 to join the Islamic State group in Syria, should not be allowed to return, to challenge the removal of her British citizenship.

The court ruled unanimously that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.

Shamima Begum, who is now 21, is living in a camp in northern Syria. She had hoped to return to the UK to challenge the Home Secretary’s decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

She ran away from east London with two other schoolgirls in 2015 and travelled to Syria to join IS.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford.

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