time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning, i'm sonja je55up. westminster council says it's working closely with the uk health security agency to help identify close contacts of a person who tested positive for the omicron covid variant in the borough. it was confirmed last night that a third case of the variant linked to travel to southern africa had been detected in someone who had stayed in westminster but is no longer in britain. meanwhile, a couple from tooting are asking the prime minister to rethink the plan to charge travellers for hotel quarantine following the ban on flights from south africa. owen hancock and emily mennie were visiting family in south africa for the first time in two years but will now have to quarantine because of restrictions over the new covid variant. they face a bill of nearly £a,000. if we could have come home earlier,