The government will carry out a full public independent inquiry into the pandemic and what lessons can be learnt from its response. This won’t be until next year. But it has emerged today that the government didn’t plan enough for a "threat" on the scale of coronavirus, according to its financial watchdog - the National Audit Office. When the pandemic hit the UK last year, the government lacked plans for many areas of its response in England - including identifying who needed to shield and managing mass disruption to schooling, it said. The watchdog also urged ministers to come up with ideas to prevent "widening" inequality caused by the pandemic.
Almost 127,700 people with coronavirus have died in the UK since the pandemic began, deaths are falling but there is increasing concern over the Indian variant which has spread across the country. The government invested in the vaccination programme, which has so far seen more than 38.6 million people receiving their first dose and restrictions have started to ease, with the latest taking place on Monday in England, Wales and most of Scotland. "There is much to learn from the successes and failures in government's response," Gareth Davies, the head of the watchdog, said. The government says it “acted quickly and decisively” as new evidence emerged and it has been "guided by data and the advice of scientific and medical experts".

The family of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with an axe in a pub car park, will have to wait for a report into his unsolved murder to be made public. Described as "one of the country's most notorious unsolved murders" by former Home Secretary Theresa May who set up the inquiry panel, the findings of the independent report have been delayed until government lawyers have examined it. It was expected to be published on Monday but due to "national security" it had to be reviewed, the Home Office said. There have been five separate failed investigations into Mr Morgan's murder in London in 1987 - all plagued by allegations of police corruption and links between police, private investigators and journalists. Mr Morgan’s family, who claim he was on the verge of exposing police corruption, say the delay is a "kick in the teeth" and the inquiry panel say the review is “unnecessary”. But the Home Office said the home secretary has a duty to ensure the report complied with "human rights and national security considerations", adding "it is not seeking to make edits".

An inquiry into the Trump Organization is "no longer purely civil", says the New York attorney general's office - it’s now being looked into “in a criminal capacity". Financial dealings of the property company before Donald Trump took office as Republican US president are being examined by top prosecutor Letitia James. Two years ago she launched a civil inquiry into claims Mr Trump had inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans, and understated them to lower his taxes. The reason why the investigation is now being reviewed as a criminal matter has not been revealed, neither has whether Mr Trump might be personally implicated in any allegations. The Trumps deny wrongdoing and say the inquiry by a Democratic prosecutor is a political vendetta.

The government’s guidance on trips abroad is in “chaos”, according to the Daily Telegraph, after a health minister warned it was still too dangerous to travel despite the ban being lifted. This story is carried on many of the front pages including the Daily Mail which reports the traffic light system for foreign travel “descended into farce”, with "contradictory messages" from ministers sparking “mass confusion”. Another story featuring heavily is about a nurse, who treated Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he was in hospital with Covid, quitting the NHS. The Daily Mirror says Jenny McGee resigned "over pay insult” and the Metro reports she also criticised the government's handling of the pandemic saying: "We're not getting the respect and now pay that we deserve." You can read the front pages here.

How would you heat your home or have hot water if you couldn’t have a new gas boiler fitted? We’ve had a look into it after a think tank suggested they shouldn’t be sold from 2025 if net-zero emissions are to be met by the middle of the century.
And when a village in Italy was flooded to create a hydroelectric plant in 1950 all you could see was a church steeple emerging from the water. The reservoir’s been drained, temporarily, for repairs and the remains of Curon have been revealed. Take a look.
Finally, you’ll only be able to see this rock formation off the Galapagos Islands in pictures now - unless you’ve been lucky enough to see it in real life. Considered to be a top diving location, Darwin's Arch, as it’s known, collapsed into the sea following “natural erosion".

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