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Monday, 22 March 2021

BBC News

• Foreign holidays: Minister refuses to rule out Covid ban extensionDefence Secretary Ben Wallace warns that booking a trip abroad would be

The Guardian

• Allowing summer holidays abroad risks another lockdown, Johnson is warnedSage experts are worried about overseas breaks leading to rise in vaccine-resistant variants in UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLifting the ban on foreign holidays in the coming months could risk another lockdown next winter, Boris Johnson is being warned, amid mounting alarm about a third wave of infections sweeping continental Europe.Scientific experts and opposition politicians are urging the government to be extremely cautious before loosening travel restrictions, with their concerns about the prevalence of new variants of the virus overseas increasingly share...

Birmingham Post

• New images show progress on £100m Space Park Leicester siteThe site could one day include a low-cost satellite production line

Cambridge News

• Ryanair issues updates to customers over summer holiday plansRyanair has extended its zero flight change fee

New Civil Engineer

• Airport industry counts the cost of Covid one year on“Few could have imagined a world where holidays would be illegal” was one of the opening statements at a recent Transport select committee evidence session on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aviation sector.