A drug that has been most commonly used to treat parasitic infections such as river blindness, spread by flies, is being trialled as a treatment for Covid-19. The drug - Ivermectin - has become controversial because it’s being promoted for use across Latin America and in South Africa, despite being so far unproven. There have been previous studies on it but they’ve been considered small or of low quality. Now the University of Oxford is conducting the Principle study where over-50s with Covid symptoms will take the medication to see if it keeps them out of hospital. It will compare those given the drug to patients receiving the usual NHS care. The drug has been found to kill viruses in petri dishes in the lab - although, at much higher doses than would usually be prescribed. So though there are some early "promising" results from small and observational studies, principle joint chief investigator Prof Richard Hobbs said it would be "premature" to recommend Ivermectin for Covid.

The deadline's looming for EU citizens living in the UK to apply for settled status. There is just a week to go before applications need to be submitted but immigration enforcement officials will begin giving those affected a 28-day warning to apply to remain in the UK, the government says. If there is a reasonable excuse for delay the Home Office will allow an indefinite time to compete the application. Settled status was introduced for EU and EEA citizens living in the UK after the Brexit referendum five years ago. People retain the same rights of residence, travel, employment and access to healthcare and benefits. Anyone whose application was not concluded by next week's deadline would not lose out, as their rights were protected in law, says immigration minister Kevin Foster. But the co-founder of the EU citizens' campaign group the3million, Maike Bohn says: "Those eligible and not applying on time become unlawful and risk losing work, housing, access to free health care and so much more."

Pictures of England’s 1-0 win against the Czech Republic in the Euros dominates the front pages this morning. The Daily Mirror says “it’s staying home” as the score means England will play a run of matches at Wembley. According to the Daily Star - which leads on the victory - “we won but we lost but if we’d lost we’d have won and if we’d drawn we’d have won too. You’re very welcome..” The lengthy headline, explaining what the win means for the next stages, is then followed by the story which says if England face Germany in the last 16 of the tournament, "we might need to call on Uri Geller". Football aside, stories including hopes for foreign holidays and cabinet minister Michael Gove revealing to the Daily Telegraph there will be “no new Scottish referendum before (the) next election” are also being covered. Read the newspaper review in full here.

It’s 30 years since Sonic the Hedgehog spun into the gaming world. Created to rival the dominating force that was Mario, coming up with a new character was tricky. Read how the man, credited with re-branding Barbie, knew Sonic was something special.

Now to a lesser known character, which appears to be enjoying warmer waters. Wally the walrus has been pictured have a whale of a time relaxing and napping on a fishing boat on the Isles of Scilly. It’s the sixth stop-off the Arctic mammal has been seen in since March.

And if you haven’t seen this, watch a cricketer smashing a six straight out of the ground - through the windscreen of his car during a game in West Yorkshire.

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