‘Happy hours ... for now’: what the papers say about Britain emerging from lockdown

Front pages celebrate easing of restrictions but they all deliver a health warning as cases of the new variant spread

Newspapers are almost unanimous in identifying the easing of coronavirus restrictions as the biggest story of the day - but they all deliver the news with a health warning.

As the most parts of the UK take another step out of lockdown on Monday - with two households or groups of six allowed to meet indoors in England for the first time since last year - health experts have said that the Indian Covid variant still poses a real risk.