Donald Trump expects to be back on the US election campaign trail this weekend, saying he hopes to hold a rally, days after being released from hospital where he was treated for coronavirus. His physician Dr Sean Conley says Saturday will be day 10 since the president's positive test. "Based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president's safe return to public engagements at that time," he adds in a White House memo.
Mr Trump told Fox News he was feeling "really good" and hoped to hold a campaign event on Saturday evening, possibly in Florida. Although his doctor says he is showing no symptoms, questions remain about whether the president could still be contagious. Mr Trump says he will take another test on Friday. The president had earlier pulled out of next Thursday's TV debate, refusing to "waste my time on a virtual debate", after organisers said it would take place remotely in light of Mr Trump's positive test.

Downing Street has yet to announce any toughening of coronavirus restrictions in the worst-hit parts of England but the prospect of pub and restaurant closures is already proving controversial. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says he only learned of it from newspapers and that he will challenge any closures that come without financial support. It's prompted an outcry from MPs in affected constituencies, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is demanding local leaders be "in the room" and included in local lockdown decisions.
On BBC Question Time, junior minister Gillian Keegan acknowledged communication needed to be clearer but said the virus was "getting out of control" in northern England and that the country was in an "unbelievably serious situation". She added: "Clearly we have to do something if we're going to bring those cases back under control." The new tiered system of measures for England is expected to be announced within days. Meanwhile, tighter restrictions in Scotland come into force at 6pm, when pubs and restaurants in the central belt will close until at least 25 October. Bars in the rest of the country will see a bar on serving alcohol indoors and opening hours limited.

The 12 months following the legalisation of same-sex marriage in March 2014 saw some 6,655 homophobic hate crimes. However, by April this year, the annual figure had almost trebled to 18,645, according to figures from all 45 police forces in England and Wales. And the past year saw a 20% rise in reports of homophobic hate crimes to police. Two years ago, 50-year-old Tommy Barwick was attacked after London's Pride Parade. "I heard shouting behind me that was homophobic. Then I was hit. I felt my back crack and I fell to the floor. They stamped on my back," he says. The attack left him requiring the use of a wheelchair. Read our LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte's report in full.

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people face being told to stay at home this winter as ministers plan to resume shielding in infection hotspots, reports the Times. The Daily Mirror reflects a "northern fury" over a potential shutdown of pubs and restaurants in parts of the country with the highest rates of infection, with bar owners demanding financial support from the government. But the Guardian says scientists advising the government believe measures expected to be introduced from next week do not go far enough. And a majority of Britons support a tougher lockdown, according to a poll commissioned by the Daily Express. The Daily Mail says the full impact of the pandemic on the NHS can be measured by the fact more than 110,000 people have been waiting over a year for treatment. Read the review.

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