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It’s “fab Feb”, says Metro: all Covid rules, including self-isolation, are likely to be scrapped by the end of the month. UCL epidemiologist Tim Colbourn says that given the widespread availability of rapid tests and current isolation laws being effectively unenforceable, “it might not actually make much difference”. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is in Moscow for talks with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a bid to resolve the Ukraine crisis. Britain has put an extra 1,000 troops on standby in case they’re needed for humanitarian operations in eastern Europe. Oxford boffins have made a huge breakthrough in nuclear fusion, a power source that could one day provide near-limitless clean energy. They generated enough power to boil 60 kettles, smashing the previous record. “Covid’s sorted PLUS we’ve cracked nuclear fusion,” says the Star. “Result!”