With both the number of new daily coronavirus cases and hospital admissions falling across the UK as a whole, there are further positive signs in the fight to get the pandemic under control. Scientists who tested 85,000 randomly selected people across England say there's been a "strong decline" in the level of infections since January. Imperial College London's latest React study findings suggests infections have dropped by two-thirds since lockdown began, with an 80% fall in London.

However, it warns virus levels are still high, with one in 200 testing positive between 4 and 13 February. The government reported a further 12,718 cases UK-wide on Wednesday - down 24% on the seven-day average - and 738 deaths. See how many cases were in your area. Hospital admissions remain relatively high, with more than 20,000 Covid-19 patients on wards. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says falling deaths in care homes and among the oldest provide "hard evidence" vaccination is working. We examine the data.

A BBC News investigation into increasingly popular live video chat website Omegle raises concerns over child safety, having found apparently prepubescent boys explicitly touching themselves in front of strangers. Child protection groups are worried about predators using the site, which links people at random. And in a two-hour period the BBC was connected with 12 masturbating men, eight naked males and seven porn adverts. The site's founder, Leif K Brooks, says it has recently ramped up moderation. Read about the investigation - and Mr Brooks' response - in full.

Singer Demi Lovato says she was minutes from death after taking a drug overdose. The US pop star, 28, who rose to fame as a teenager on the Disney Channel, had been sober for six years after treatment for alcohol and drug addictions. However, in 2018, an overdose left her unconscious at her Los Angeles home. "I had three strokes," Lovato says in a trailer for YouTube documentary series Dancing With The Devil. "I had a heart attack. My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes."

The papers take a variety of lines on the pandemic, with some focusing on children. Parents of secondary school pupils will be asked to test their children for coronavirus twice a week as part of a phased return to the classroom, the Daily Telegraph reports. Meanwhile, the Guardian says that although Covid infections have fallen by two-thirds in a month, the virus is now spreading most among primary-age children and young people. Separately, several front pages carry photos of the Duke of Edinburgh, who is in hospital. "Hope you Phil better," says the Sun.

He knew Sir Sean Connery, collaborated with David Hockney and has a fan in The Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith. Who? Archie Brennan, of course. Never heard of him? Rebecca Jones explores why "Scotland's Andy Warhol" isn't better known.

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