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Ambulance workers hold banners and flags at a picket line in Crawley, West Sussex (south of England), as they go on strike for non-life threatening calls. IMAGES
British newspapers celebrate England's women's football team's victory at the Euro 2022 championship. 'It's home!' says the Daily Express, the Daily Mail says 'It wasn't a dream... we DID beat Germany in a final!', while The Times calls the team, known as the 'Lionesses', 'England's Pride'. IMAGES
British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces all pandemic legal curbs in England will end later this week, urging a shift from government intervention to personal responsibility. Johnson, who has been mired in scandals that have threatened his hold on power, says the legal need for people to self-isolate when infected with Covid-19 would stop from Thursday 24 February 2022. SOUNDBITE
Evacuees from Afghanistan disembark from a UK military plane which landed in Brize Norton. The Taliban took effective control of the country Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition. It capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan's major cities in just 10 days, achieved with relatively little bloodshed, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. IMAGES
A UK military plane lands in Brize Norton with evacuees from Afghanistan onboard. The Taliban took effective control of the country Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition. It capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan's major cities in just 10 days, achieved with relatively little bloodshed, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. IMAGES
British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces that all legal requirements for wearing facemasks and social distancing are likely to end in England on July 19. SOUNDBITE N°9DY6TX