Boris Johnson has hailed Joe Biden’s decision to finally allow fully-vaccinated Brits to visit the US, with the current travel ban due to be lifted from November.

Timothy Berryman, the principal of Fitzroy Community School in Melbourne, invited parents to send children to the school during lockdown, which now has a Covid-19 outbreak.

Some 23 per cent of adults arriving in England in July from amber list countries avoided isolating or did not take required Covid tests, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

The joint general secretary of the National Education Union Mary Bousted said: ‘My prediction is that very shortly we are going to see schools all over the country… operating contingency framework.’

The state has reported 830 new locally acquired cases of Covid, another daily infection record, as well as three deaths, as authorities battle to contain the spread of the Delta strain.

Professor Stephen Reicher, a psychologist at the University of St Andrews and member of SAGE’s behavioural sub-committee, said he was a ‘relative optimist’ about the relaxation.

Judge Judy is entitled to her $47million salary, a California court ruled, after the agency behind the famed judge’s television show Rebel Entertainment Partners claimed otherwise.