Monday briefing: Johnson to map way out of lockdown © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
Top story: Timetable rests on four key tests © Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock Boris Johnson is expected to announce the reopening of schools in England from 8 March.
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Boris Johnson will unveil the government’s roadmap to easing the coronavirus lockdown in England later today, with the reopening of schools on 8 March widely expected to be the first move towards some return to normality. In a hotly anticipated statement today, the prime minister is also tipped to announce that socialising in parks and public spaces with one other person will also be permitted from the same date. School sports will also be allowed to resume. The reopening of restaurants and non-essential shops is likely to be kept on hold, but two families or a group of six friends will
Monday briefing: Johnson to map way out of lockdown
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New doubt over fishermen s cocaine smuggling convictions | Law
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TWO members of the ‘Freshwater Five’ all of whom maintain their innocence of a £53m cocaine smuggling plot will have their convictions considered by the Court of Appeal next week. Lawyers acting for Jonathan Beere and Daniel Payne will present judges with fresh expert evidence they say disproves the prosecution’s case that they conspired to use a fishing boat to collect drugs from a container ship in the English Channel and deposited them in Freshwater Bay. The new evidence, uncovered by law charity APPEAL, is based on radar data from a law enforcement vessel which wasn t included at the trial.