EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #VACCINE: NIAC is expected to recommend that the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should only be given to those aged 60 and over only.

2. #MOTHER AND BABY: Philomena Lee is among a number of women taking legal action against findings in the final report of the Commission of Investigation into mother and baby homes.

3. #PREGNANCY: A HSE official has said it is important that pregnant women protect themselves against Covid-19 after reports of more stillbirths linked to the virus.

4. #REOPENING: People queued for an early-morning shopping fix as non-essential stores reopened in the latest relaxation of England’s coronavirus lockdown regulations today.

5. #PARIS: An unidentified attacker has shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital before fleeing the scene on a motorbike.

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