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Britain records 55 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in the last 24 hours - the lowest total since March 21, with Scotland now going two days without a fatality. SOUNDBITE
Images show the scene outside St Thomas' Hospital in London where British Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. Johnson began a third day in intensive care battling the coronavirus, which has struck at the heart of the British government, infected more than 55,000 people across the country and killed nearly 6,200. IMAGES
Britain says it would be closing schools to stem the spread of coronavirus, as the death toll topped 100 and Londoners braced for tougher measures to tackle the outbreak. SOUNDBITE
The deaths of 72 people in Britain's 2017 Grenfell inferno were "all avoidable", says inquiry chairman Martin Moore-Bick following the release of a damning final report on the disaster. The highly-critical report marks the end of a two-part independent inquiry led by the retired judge Moore-Bick into Britain's worst residential fire since World War II. SOUNDBITE
Police in riot gear stand in line with smoke and flames visible in the street behind them in Southport, the town in the northwest of England where clashes have broken out the day after a knife attack which caused the deaths of three children. IMAGES