flags are lowered over downing street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a national inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. the uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the health secretary says he s seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the virus variant from south africa. scotland is to introduce travel quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. good afternoon. in the last hour, it s been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. the army veteran, originally from keighley in west yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the fi
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