Secondary schools in England will be asked to deliver face-to-face summer schools to help some pupils catch up with lessons lost to Covid.
It will be up to schools which pupils get the lessons – they won’t be for everyone, and the summer holidays won’t be shorter. But the government is providing hundreds of millions of pounds in funding to make sure it happens.
Alongside the face-to-face lessons for some secondary pupils, there is also funding for primary and secondary schools to boost summer clubs and activities. The prime minister said the money would ensure “no child is left behind”.
Schools in England closed to most pupils when the first lockdown began in March 2020. They reopened to some year groups in the summer term, and to all pupils in September. But they closed again in January, and are not due to reopen until 8 March. Read about “Generation Covid” here, and see how one school in Shropshire is preparing for the return here.

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond was due to give evidence today to an inquiry into how the Scottish government handled complaints against him. He has now said he won’t attend: a move that came after the Scottish parliament withdrew, and then republished, a revised version of one of Mr Salmond's submissions to the inquiry. He has offered to appear on Friday instead.
Mr Salmond earlier alleged "a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish government and the SNP to damage my reputation - even to the extent of having me imprisoned". He has also accused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code. She denied the claims and said there was “not a shred of evidence” of a conspiracy. Read the background to the extraordinary row here.

Golfer Tiger Woods has had surgery after suffering "multiple leg injuries" in a car crash in Los Angeles. Police said they "responded to a single-vehicle rollover" in which the "vehicle sustained major damage". The 15-time major champion, 45, had to be "extricated from the wreck" by firefighters and paramedics. LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva later said that Woods "was alive and conscious" at the scene of the crash. Villanueva also said "there was no evidence of impairment".

A range of stories lead the newspapers. The Times says the stamp duty holiday will be extended, while the Express and the Mirror focus on the surge in holiday bookings – the latter dubbing it the “Great British take-off”. Read all the front pages here.

Watch these orangutans rescued from captivity in Indonesia being released into the wild. And there's more good nature news: here's an Australian swamp that's being restored after years of farming.

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