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Mortified, Maxine wants to tell her mum exactly what she and Brad got up to last night, but Trish simply accuses her of stirring up trouble.

With the tension between the pair palpable, Trish drops another bombshell on Maxine – Brad and her are moving to Hollyoaks.

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Coronation Street has confirmed that Vinta Morgan will play Ronnie Bailey ahead of the new character's arrival next month.

It was previously revealed that Ed's "jack the lad" brother Ronnie would be joining the cobbles and causing a bit of trouble for the Bailey family.

"It's so great to be joining Coronation Street," the actor said.

Related: Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod teases 2021 storylines in big interview.

In December they sent in the geneticists — and they spotted that one variant was proliferating.

This variant had become a pandemic within a pandemic.

Key mutation N501Y.

Health officials in Cornwall say the "dramatic rise" in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks is "directly linked" to Tier 1 freedoms enjoyed by the county in early December.

The director of Public Health Cornwall, Rachel Wigglesworth, told Sky News that two-thirds of all positive cases have been detected in the last two months alone.

Live UK and world COVID news.

The full figures show that in Havering there were 2661 cases in the week to January 9, down 905 (25.4%) with a rate of 1,025.2, Bromley 2851 cases, down 950 (25%) with a rate of 857.9, Kingston 1160 cases, down 324 (21.8%) with a rate of 653.5, Richmond 1019 cases, down 281 (21.6%) with a rate of 514.6, Sutton 1854 cases, down 507 (21.5%) with a rate of 898.5, Merton 1775 cases, down 395 (18.2%) with a rate of 859.4, Redbridge 3855 cases, down 728 (15.9%) with a rate of 1,263, Tower Hamlets 3663 cases, down 474 (11.5%) with a rate of 1,128, Barking and Dagenham 3216 cases, down 264 (7.6%) with a rate of 1,510.5, Bexley 2805 cases, down 226 (7.5%) with a rate of 1,129.7, and Enfield 3854 cases, down 313 (7.5%) with a rate of 1,154.6

Barnet saw 3760 cases, down 288 (7.1%) with a rate of 949.8, Hammersmith and Fulham 1353 cases, down 82 (5.7%) with a rate of 730.8, Camden 1767 cases, down 63 (3.4%) with a rate of 654.4, Waltham Forest 3076 cases, down 93 (2.9%) with a rate of 1,110.5, Wandsworth 2539 cases, down 72 (2.8%) with a rate of 770.1, Greenwich 3102 cases, down 83 (2.6%) with a rate of 1,077.3, Haringey 2765 cases, down 63 (2.2%) with a rate of 1,029.2, Hackney and City of London 2630 cases, down 50 (1.9%) with a rate of 904.3, Westminster 1524 cases, down 17 (1.1%) with a rate of 583.2, Hounslow 2998 cases, down  22 (0.7%) with a rate of 1,104.1, and Lewisham 3167 cases, down six (0.2%) with a rate of 1,035.5

In Newham, there were 4968 cases, up two (0%) with a rate of 1,406.8, Hillingdon 3091 cases, up 20 (0.7%) with a rate of 1,007.3, Islington 1919 cases, up 15 (0.8%) with a rate of 791.4, Croydon 4247 cases, up 50 (1.2%) with a rate of 1,098.2, Harrow 2413 cases, up 47 (2%) with a rate of 960.7, Kensington and Chelsea 1064 cases, up 55 (5.5%) with a rate of 681.5, Brent 3653 cases, up 318 (9.5%) with a rate of 1,107.7, Southwark 3280 cases, up 276 (9.2%) with a rate of 1,028.8, Lambeth 3251 cases, up 354 (12.2%) with a rate of 997.1, and Ealing 3746 cases, up 429 (12.9%) with a rate of 1,095.9

The number of people in the UK to have been given a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as of January 13 is 2,918,252, according to Public Health England (PHE), a rise of 278,943 from the figures published on Wednesday.

A total of 437,977 people have received a second dose in the UK as of January 13, a rise of 9,745 from the previous day, PHE added.

Locally, the number of Covid-related hospital deaths since the start of the pandemic is as follows:.

Large numbers in younger age groups have also been receiving their first dose, with more than one in very 100 people aged below 49 being given their first jab in the South West, South East, North West and North East and Yorkshire during the first month of the programme.

All of the doses given so far have been for the Government's first set of priority groups - a total of 32m people that includes everyone over the age of 50 as well as all frontline workers and people with underlying conditions that make them highly vulnerable Covid-19. ?

The nine groups are below - and it is the people within the first four groups, comprising 15m people, that the Government is aiming to offer doses to by mid-February:.

Speaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including the one in Llanbedrog where the first vaccine will be given on Friday, said he expected the rollout to happen "very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales".

"I don't forsee any big problems," he said.

"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.

The entire mission isn’t over, but the so-called Mole, the instrument designed and built by Germany’s DLR, has been pronounced dead.

The Mole is, of course, the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3).

It’s an instrument designed to measure the heat flowing from the Martian interior to the surface.

The YF-77 powers the first stage of China’s Long March 5 CZ-5 heavy-lift vehicle rockets.

DON'T MISS.

Brian Cox admitted 'we're only intelligent life' [UPDATE].

Although Riders Republic was originally scheduled for a 25th February release on PC, PS4, and Xbox One (with Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 optimisations promised), Ubisoft has now made the decision to shift its launch to some time "later this year".

This additional time, the publisher explains in a statement posted to its website, "will allow our passionate team to deliver the best fun fuelled experience to our players".

There's no further indication of why a delay was deemed necessary or when Ubisoft might be hoping to get Riders Republic out into the wild, but more information will undoubtedly arrive in due course.

The Sony Rewards Twitter account has revealed that PS5 systems will be available on its site sometime today.

The account also recommends that users keep notifications on as systems will likely be limited and will sell out fast.

Sony Rewards has not specified if PS5's would be limited to certain loyal customers or to anyone with a rewards account. .

The Samsung Galaxy S20's Single Take mode has also seen an improvement, with better AI and a heavier emphasis on slow-motion recording in order to capture great pictures.

Unless those new camera modes appeal, you might not find the experience of shooting with the Samsung Galaxy S21 very different to the Galaxy S20.

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The opposition leader, who has been arrested multiple times during the campaigning, earlier said the presidential election was marred by ‘fraud and violence’ without providing any evidence.

Bobi Wine said he would detail election irregularities by the ruling party once the internet was restored.

The internet remained down for a third day as vote counting continued.

Rory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, "despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first".

James Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.

But, he said, the real "story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure".

Using her powers, Wanda has (probably) reshaped reality to create a better world for herself, but unfortunately for Westview, it looks like the entire town has been sucked into her delusion too.

If so, then that ghostly voice on the other end of that radio transmission likely belongs to a SWORD agent trying to break through and help Wanda, not realising that she's the one who started this whole mess.

But then who is that beekeeper?

88th over: England 307-4 (Root 162, Buttler 0) This is a decent spell from Perera, who cedes just a single then diddles Buttler with his final delivery - it spits and hisses past the bat only to leap over the stumps; they run a bye

The way Lawrence and Root batted shouldn’t obscure to us the turn that’s in this track

“The only problem I have with D Lawrence’s name is that his parents gave him the middle name William rather than Harry or Henry,” emails Pete Salmon