They are aimed at limiting advertisers from tracking iPhone users without their knowledge, which Facebook said was likely to have an impact on its income, particularly between July and October, and it has factored into its projections for how it will perform.

That balance has now decisively shifted - in the companies' communications anyway - to the former. First Phillip Morris International and now BAT have gone all out to stress their move into new types of less harmful products - vaping, heated rather than combusted...

Adults who have been fully vaccinated in the UK, and under-18s who are UK residents, no longer have to self-isolate after visiting any amber country apart from France. But anyone who was fully vaccinated outside the UK still has to quarantine for 10 days on arrival,...