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NHS Covid app updated to 'ping' fewer people following disruption

The app has been tweaked so fewer Covid contacts will be told to self-isolate, after figures showed more than 685,000 people were 'pinged' in a single week.

Ministers scrap plans for amber watchlist as PM pledges 'simple' travel rules

Tributes paid to 'beautiful' five-year-old found dead in River Ogmore

Key Afghan cities on brink of Taliban takeover as US and NATO troops pull out

DaBaby makes second apology over homophobic rant about HIV

'I know what is best for me', says Peaty as he prioritises his mental health

11th gold medal for GB in eventing and first women’s weightlifting medal

Tokyo Olympics

GB's eventing team wins gold after dominant display in showjumping final

The Olympic champ who overcame a fall that left her in a coma

Cyclist Katie Archibald on Team GB's Tokyo 2020 hopes

Belarusian sprinter granted humanitarian visa by Poland

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Coronavirus

'FaceTime's not the same': Families reunited as restrictions lift

Another 21,952 people test positive for Covid as further 24 deaths reported

Decision on Covid booster jabs for over 50s to made in next few weeks

How many people in the UK have been vaccinated so far?

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Latest updates

Sturgeon to announce if coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in Scotland

‘Amber watchlist’ scrapped as ministers prepare to review summer travel rules

What the papers say – August 3

Government abandons ‘amber watchlist’ plans for travellers

Scottish ministers have duty to speak out against Cambo oilfield, says Oxfam

Study launched to find best dosing gap between Covid-19 jabs for pregnant women

Student’s ‘elegant’ design chosen as Queen’s Platinum Jubilee emblem

Jack Grealish’s girlfriend ‘received 200 death threats a day’

From our journalists

Why Johnson's maths on funding for girls' education worldwide doesn't add up

Anushka Asthana

Deputy Political Editor

How sporting equality is changing our world

Steve Scott

Sports Editor

Tory backbenchers prepare to fight cost of net zero greenhouse gas emissions

Anushka Asthana

Deputy Political Editor

'Sometimes I hope I don't wake up': The drug user who started heroin aged 11

Peter Smith

Scotland Correspondent

We're spending more than the Earth can provide - and today we go into the red

Rupert Evelyn

Wales and West of England Correspondent

Schools emerging from 'chaotic' 18 months put on summer catch-up programme

Hannah Miller

North of England Reporter

How do you persuade terrorists to abandon their criminal calling?

Paul Brand

UK Editor

Growing concern as further evidence shows climate change is impacting the UK

Laura Tobin

Meteorologist and Weather Presenter, Good Morning Britain