Seven people were arrested outside the London headquarters of Barclays bank on Wednesday after climate change activists broke windows to protest the role of the financial sector in climate change, news wires reported. “You may dislike our action today but I ask you to compare a crack in a window to funding wildfires and flooded homes,” said a campaigner cited by Reuters.

British PM Boris Johnson said on Monday his government was hopeful that non-essential international travel would restart from 17 May, following the unveiling of a new traffic light system, news wires reported.

Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a "traffic-light" system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown, news wires reported. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of 17 May to relaunch international travel, which is currently banned except for a handful of permitted reasons.

Cars were set on fire and masked people attacked a police with petrol bombs over the weekend as riots sparkled in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region, Reuters said.Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom as part of Britain’s departure from the EU and have warned that their unease could lead to violence.

Over 31 million people in UK had received their first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, with five million now having had both doses in what is the fastest rollout in Europe, official data showed. Britain reported 10 deaths from COVID-19 within 28 days of a positive test on Saturday, the lowest daily figure since early September, as its vaccine rollout reached another milestone, Reuters reported.

A national weekend of action united hundreds protesters who staged rallies across the UK with demands to halt a draft bill which aims to secure additional powers to police to limit protests, Reuters reported. The controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill increases the range of measures that law enforcement officers can impose to scatter demonstrations such as time and noise limits. Protesters fear that those points may be used as an excuse to smash any social unrest.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to take necessary actions to save cash-strapped Liberty Steel, Reuters reported. The steel producer is struggling to secure fresh financing after the collapse of its main creditor. Liberty Steel employs more than 3,000 people which ups the political and social cost of that decision.

The usage of Covid-19 vaccines is often coupled with side effects. A few countries have recently suspended or limited the administrations of jabs made by AstraZeneca. The main concerns were linked to suspected appearance of blood clots after the administration of the vaccine. British regulators said they have identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events after the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Reuters reported. That is 25 more than the agency previously reported.

Britain is emerging from the recession faster than previously thought, AP reported. Official figures confirmed that UK ended 2020 in a considerably stronger position than experts had forecast, but it had also posted a larger output drop for the first coronavirus lockdown.

More than a fifth of small British exporters have temporarily halted sales to the European Union and 4% have done so permanently, a survey showed on Monday, highlighting problems that have followed the Brexit trade deal.