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There will be four "hub" areas to see the fireworks - Regatta Point, Patrick White Lawns, Rond Terrace and Bowen Park.

France will require that travellers arriving from China provide a negative Covid-19 test result less than 48 hours old before departure, the health ministry said in a statement on Friday.

It comes after Beijing announced plans to start reissuing passports and visas for overseas trips.

Rishi Sunak’s party had been split on whether to introduce the testing measures, after the lifting of Covid restrictions in China caused a wave of infections

UK set to announce it will require travellers from China to have negative Covid test before arrival

Court reporter Andrew Bardsley looks back at some of the most high profile cases the M.E.N. has covered

Covid restrictions over the last three years have led to many big December 31 events being cancelled

High numbers of patients continue to arrive at hospitals, creating a high demand across the system, extended waiting times to access beds within our hospitals and difficulties in discharging patients as well as the rise in Covid-19 and flu cases, ICB said.

Spanish health minister Carolina Darias told press that the country will require all air passengers coming from China to have negative Covid-19 tests or proof of vaccination.

Torbay Hospital in Devon has ordered all patients, staff and visitors to wear face masks as the UK faces a triple threat of covid, flu and respiratory illnesses

November was a chilly month for jobs, relatively speaking, of course. “Only” 263,000 new jobs were created by employers. That was the slowest pace of adding payroll costs in almost two years. (Yes, it is best to put quotes around the word only in that last sentence because a month…