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The Daily Mail asks how police, teachers, and social workers missed opportunities to save six-year-old Arthur.

Ministers have been told not to be festive “killjoys”, the Daily Mail says, after Health Secretary Sajid Javid said people should take lateral flow tests before Christmas socialising. 

Ministers are urging people not to cancel their Christmas plans in the wake of the Omicron variant – contradicting the advice of leading scientists. 

All over-18s will be offered booster jabs under plans to help combat the Omicron variant, the Daily Mail says. 

The Mail is one of several papers to report on attempts by health officials to reassure people over the new variant.It quotes experts as saying there is “no plausible scenario” in which Omicron could take the UK back to “square one”.

Boris Johnson has accused France of “letting gangs get away with murder”, the Daily Mail reports.

Killing a police officer or 999 worker will result in a mandatory life sentence, reports The Daily Mail.