Metro

Metro reports on claims that the prime minister is planning to spend £100bn on his “moonshot” plan to get Britain “back to normal” by offering rapid coronavirus testing for everyone in the country. 

Metro reports that from Monday, social gatherings will be slashed from 30 to six, in an effort to stop coronavirus infection rates rising even further.

Metro leads on Prince Harry’s repayment of the £2.4m of taxpayers’ money spent on renovating his UK home at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.

Metro leads with a series of stabbings in Birmingham, as police release CCTV footage of a suspect.

More than 400 people with COVID-19 died in care homes every day at the height of the pandemic despite government claims it had thrown a “protective ring” around them, writes Metro.

The head of the exam regulator Ofqual has said students could have safely sat their A-level and GCSE exams this summer, the Metro reports.

The Metro leads on Boris Johnson hailing a return to (nearly) normal as commuters headed back to work and schools re-opened.

Metro reports on warnings that school children have fallen three months behind on their studies as a result of lockdown, with one MP claiming there is just a 50/50 chance exams will go ahead next summer. 

Metro leads with a man being escorted off a Ryanair flight by emergency workers in hazmat suits after he received a text stating he had tested positive for coronavirus.

Metro uses Boris Johnson’s explanation that a “mutant algorithm” was to blame for the A-levels grading fiasco to accuse the government of being in a mess.