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A teaching union has called on Jersey's government to make masks mandatory in all areas of schools again, because of the spike in coronavirus cases.

PCR testing is required for recent Red List arrivals and direct flights to Jersey from those countries have been banned.

Red weather warnings are in place across the Channel Islands as winds from the north are picking up.

Up to £400,000 has been made available to support Jersey's fishing industry for the rest of this year.

Campaign group Dignity in Dying has called the decision to approve a proposition to legalise assisted dying in Jersey, in principle, 'a victory for common sense and compassion.'

A room at Macmillan Jersey's cancer, support, and wellbeing centre has been dedicated to Gary Burgess.

£3,000 has been raised so a donkey in Jersey, who was rescued from the Italian meat market, can get much-needed treatment at a UK veterinary hospital.

The States Assembly has agreed to, in principle, approve assisted dying in Jersey.

Red weather warnings are in place across the Channel Islands as winds from the north are picking up.

Anyone who has been in one of the six Red List countries in the past fortnight is being asked to arrange a PCR test and isolate.

Bailiwick Law Enforcement is distributing posters and beer mats bearing the message to try to instigate a culture shift.

Dog owners are urged to be extra careful on Guernsey beaches as a waxy substance has been discovered.

Storm Arwen has battered parts of the UK with gusts of almost 100mph hitting some areas.

Police investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Liverpool city centre are going to review hundreds of hours of CCTV in an attempt to find out what happened.

The first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq.

Vaccine manufacturers have expressed confidence that they will be able to rapidly adapt their jabs if the Omicron variant spreads.

Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan says he is "sorry" for the pain Azeem Rafiq has experienced amid his former Yorkshire team-mate's allegations of racism.

Scotland and Wales could face off for a place at next year's World Cup should they defeat Ukraine and Austria in their respective play-off semi-finals.

Manchester United have reached an agreement in principle with Lokomotiv Moscow for Ralf Rangnick to become their interim manager.

Ralf Rangnick is close to finalising a deal to become Manchester United interim manager until the end of the season.

The FTSE 100 has fallen by 3.64% in its biggest one-day sell-off, in percentage terms, since June 2020.

News of a potentially fast-spreading new coronavirus variant has already triggered a violent reaction on markets and in a number of different asset classes.

Britain is bringing in travel restrictions for six African countries due to a new COVID variant that UK experts have called the "worst one we've seen so far".

Amazon's largest UK warehouse is being blockaded by climate activists in Black Friday protests.

As an actor, presenter and documentary maker, Reggie Yates has been a regular fixture on our TV screens since he was a young child.

Richard Madeley is "gutted" that he cannot return to I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - but says he feels "fit as a fiddle".

Adele's album has had the most successful UK chart debut for four years, recording first-week sales of 261,000 and 55.7 million plays across its 12 tracks.

Stephen Sondheim - the composer and lyricist behind some of the world's best-known musicals - has died aged 91.

France has cancelled a meeting with the UK to discuss Channel crossings after Boris Johnson asked the French to take back migrants arriving in Britain.

There is limited evidence that Rishi Sunak's £2bn jobs programme for young people is working, according to a new report.

A worrying new COVID strain has been classified by the World Health Organisation as a "variant of concern" - its most serious level - and officially given the Greek name Omicron.

Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.

Vaccine manufacturers have expressed confidence that they will be able to rapidly adapt their jabs if the Omicron variant spreads.

So the new variant has a name, but we've no idea about its reputation.

Stephen Sondheim - the composer and lyricist behind some of the world's best-known musicals - has died aged 91.

The first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq.

Criminals with "advanced forging capabilities" are selling valid vaccine certificates on the dark web, according to new research, suggesting they may have compromised government systems.

Amazon's largest UK warehouse is being blockaded by climate activists in Black Friday protests.

The UK markets watchdog said on Friday it had secured additional commitments from Google in its 11-month-long tussle over the technology giant's privacy plans.

NASA has delayed the launch of its new James Webb Space Telescope following an "incident" that happened affecting its connection to the rocket.

A council in Australia appears set to effectively ban cats from being outdoors unless they are on a lead.

Two people have been injured after two large pigs charged on to a golf course in West Yorkshire.

A family's "pet dog" that angered neighbours by killing and eating ducks and chickens has turned out to be a fox.

A giant nine-foot-tall video game joystick has been honoured in the Guinness World Records.