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Hello, it's Sunday the 12th of September and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder,

for the latest on travel

and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the independent. Today a reduction

in testing for travellers arriving in the UK is on the card but how will ministers justify

the change? Wales now allows cheaper COVID tests,

and 20 years after Anset Australia collapsed, the state of Australian aviation.

Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. Do sign up at

independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. It's been a lively Sunday so far.

Lots of lines coming out from the government. There was a leak to the mail on Sunday and also the sun,

saying that PCR tests are going to be removed or reduced.

That actually has been stepped up with an interview that Sajid Javid,

the health secretary, has done on Sky News.

He has said, I've already asked the official,

let's get rid of these kinds of intrusions. He's talking here about PCR tests for travel,

the cost that generates for families. We shouldn't be keeping anything like that in place for a second longer

than it's absolutely necessary. Well, in that case, I expect it to be reduced as from tomorrow.

Well, of course, I don't. There will be another U-turn on this then, coming up very soon,

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