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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.

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.

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".

Britain was the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine because it has "much better" regulators than France, Belgium and the US, a senior minister has claimed.

Julie Harris is a healthcare worker in South Wales - and she's just received a text message which has changed her life.

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.

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.

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.