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Another 576 people tested positive, according to the Department of Health and Social Care Via: Coronavirus: UK death toll rises by 89 to 43,995

Government accused of keeping vulnerable and traumatised people ‘in limbo’ Via: Torture victim still waiting to be granted refugee status seven months after asylum claim accepted

Historian resigns from board of Mary Rose after sparking fury with racist comment Via: David Starkey under fire for saying 'slavery wasn't genocide' because 'so many damn blacks' survived

Of the 6,183 Covid-19 UK patients who were referred to the contact tracing programme between June 18 and June 24, just 4,639 were actually tracked down (75 per cent). Via: NHS Test and Trace is STILL failing to find a quarter of coronavirus-infected cases

A shocking video, taken by the victim, shows a white woman holding a pistol at a family with her hand placed on the trigger at a car park in Orion Township, Michigan. Via: White woman is filmed pulling a gun on a black family in a horrifying confrontation

The BBC already had an £800 million savings target before the coronavirus pandemic led to an additional £125 million deficit. Now local services will ‘undergo a significant reinvention.’ Via: One in six jobs will go at BBC as corporation plans to cut 450 staff from regional programmes

An investigation was launched after 31 cases of coronavirus were linked to five-star luxury Stamford Plaza in Melbourne, Victoria, with guards revealing they had been sleeping with solo guests. Via: The sex scandal that started Australia's coronavirus second wave?

Henry Littell, 13, from Surrey, has opened up about the violent bullying he suffered and told The Telegraph he was scared to speak about race in case people ‘twisted his words’. Via: Star of The School that Tried to End Racism reveals how classmates would 'twist words'

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Scotland’s distancing rule to be relaxed for some sectors; lockdown-easing paused in some Scottish towns; getting English schools back to normal critical, Williamson saysEnglish schools to open full-time in SeptemberBan on non-essential travel to be lifted for some countriesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.51pm BST NHS Read more