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Pubs, restaurants and bars may allow their customers to break social distancing rules if they have a COVID passport, reports The Times.

An advertising campaign will encourage people in England to take two rapid coronavirus tests a week from Friday, The Times reports.

Britain’s “successful vaccination programme” will be used as a “blueprint for the future of the health service”, The Times reports.

Oxfam has been hit by new sex claims against aid workers, The Times reports. 

Boris Johnson has urged people to go out and “have fun” as lockdown restrictions are eased and said England was on course for the reopening of shops, pubs and restaurants in a fortnight, according to The Times.He said he had not seen anything in the latest coronavirus data “that would cause us to deviate from the roadmap” but urged people to abide by the rules.

A chief constable says he believes schools have covered up sexual offences by pupils to protect their reputations, The Times reports.It comes after a number of independent schools in the country were accused of failing to deal with complaints about a “rape culture”.

High street shops will be allowed to stay open until 10pm when lockdown restrictions are eased – with Rishi Sunak urging people to “go have fun” and spend some money, The Times writes.

The Times leads on the suspension of a teacher who showed students a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Parents’ subsequent protests were “completely unacceptable”, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said.