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The White House's chief immunologist has told Sky News he believes the British approval of the Pfizer COVID vaccine has been done in a "much less deep" way than would have been done in the US.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is now in the UK and is being delivered to the devolved nations, Sky News understands.

Four people have been killed in a large explosion at a sewage plant in Avonmouth, near Bristol.

A cyber espionage campaign targeted at companies vital to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been detected.

No countries have been added to or removed from the UK's list of travel corridors, but a new "business traveller" exemption from quarantine has been announced.

Criticisms of the speed with which the UK approved the first coronavirus vaccine are "mistaken", a former regulator has said, adding that approval was faster in the UK because Brexit gave the regulator a brief moment of "spare capacity".

There have been a further 14,879 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 414 deaths recorded in the UK in the last 24 hours, government figures show.

A winter chill is heading to the UK with temperatures in parts of the country forecast to dip as low as -10C (14F) on Thursday night.

A young actress has given a royal performance for Prince Charles and Camilla - dressed in her supermarket workwear as she had to rush straight from the theatre to start her eight-hour shift.

The Premier League and English Football League have reached an agreement over a £250m bailout package for EFL clubs facing financial challenges in the coronavirus pandemic.