Hamid Minas says they cover areas such as Bradford, Liverpool, Sunderland, Leicester, Cardiff and Coventry.

The digital unit of British telecom giant BT announced Wednesday a cash injection of 5 million pounds ($6 million) in a project spearheaded by drone firm Altitude Angel, which seeks to create the country's first "drone superhighway" for faster delivery of goods

The UK marked on Wednesday one year since becoming the first country in the world to deploy an approved vaccine against COVID-19, but the anniversary came amid fears that the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus could evade the protection offered by the vaccines